In Urdu poetry, the metaphors can be expressed in love for the Dunya (material world) or Allah. In this case, the metaphor of visiting a lover in the moonlight is likened to the love one has for Allah ...

In ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’, Sanjiv Saraf puts together a collection, in the original and in translation, that’s both comprehensive and imaginative.

Ghalib was the preeminent Indian Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen names of Ghalib (means "dominant") and Asad (means "lion"). Most notably ...

Mirza Ghalib 224th birth anniversary: Do you hard relate with ‘Ishq ne ‘ġhālib’ nikammā kar diyā varna ham bhī aadmī the kaam ke’? Here are 10 relatable couplets by the Mughal era ...