Mirza Beg Asadullah Khan, most famously known by his nom de plume "Ghalib", was a richly celebrated Urdu poet of the 19th century Mughal period, who produced an oeuvre of rare elegance both in Urdu ...

I learnt Persian formally during my MA days from the Iran Culture House in Delhi but I had been interested in Mirza Ghalib from childhood and Urdu is my mother tongue. Urdu traces the etymology for ...

The diya-and flower-decked ghats of Banaras usually teem with thousands of tourists and visitors from different backgrounds, religions, sects, and creeds. Today, the same ghats have been pasted over ...

At two in the morning, when Banaras takes a breather, I present myself at the Vishwanath Temple to find some hundred people already in the queue. In an hour from now, the lord of the universe will be ...