A whiff of heritage
An afternoon at Mirza Ghalib’s favourite perfumery takes you back aeons, says KRISHNARAJ IYENGAR
An afternoon at Mirza Ghalib’s favourite perfumery takes you back aeons, says KRISHNARAJ IYENGAR
Ghalib's visit to Kolkata can be reckoned as a voyage to modernism, cultural plurality, and new poetic sensibilities. The effervescence of possibilities that Kolkata offered left an indelible mark on Ghalib.
Pankaj Maheshwari from Jaipur was a rollover contestant and resumed his game on Tuesday’s episode.
Delhi did have fire-crackers much more than 200 years ago and Haider Quli, the artillery chief, made good use of them at his haveli, now lying deserted.
"There is probably no poet (like Montrose) in the whole range of Anglo-Indian Urdu poetry who shows this rare combination of writing elegant verses both in Urdu and English with equal facility and skill"
Guests at the New Year's party of 1834 included rajas and nawabs and some British officials, whose wives were back home in England.
With its rich history and a melange of cuisine forms, Rampuri cuisine is an almanac of recipes for the modern chef. Suchayan Mandal traces the history of this repository of gourmet cooking
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banrejee on Thursday remembered the Urdu and Persian-language poet Mirza Ghalib on his 149th death…
After Ghalib’s death, among those who courted the Urdu Muse in the 20th Century the name of Jigar Moradabadi enjoys…
Gulzar advised the young generation of aspiring writers to "become their own critics" by emulating Mirza Ghalib's practise of repeatedly…
