This book introduces the readers to the flavour and form of ghazal poetry which is an ancient form of ode tracing its origin in pre- Islamic and Persian society. The author has provided both English and Ur I took urdu as my vocational subject in the last semester of college and I feel grateful to have studied one of the most prized and beautiful languages. Some lesser known poets like Mir Dard Mir, Mohammed Ibrahim Zauq, Amir Meenai and their passionate verses are the highlight of the anthology.

I took urdu as my vocational subject in the last semester of college and I feel grateful to have studied one of the most prized and beautiful languages. Among other features of the book should be mentioned the introductory essay on the ghazal, which is comprehensive and fully illustrated, and brief biographical notes on the poets, along with their authentic portraits.more For the convenience of the non-Urdu knowing reader, the author has provided in the book, in addition to the text in Urdu Romanised versions of the ghazals.

The translations are faithful to the sense and spirit of the original and are couched in a lucid, poetical language. It contains translations of 108 ghazals selected from the works of nine major poets: Wali, Dard, Mir, Ghalib, Momin, Iqbal, Hasrat, Firaq and Faiz. The translations are faithful to the sense and spirit of the original and are couche The book introduces the reader to the form and flavour of Urdu ghazal which, undoubtedly, is the most popular and prized poetic genre in Urdu. His translation of Divan-e Ghalib was published as The Treasure: A Modern Rendition of GhalibвЂ™s Lyrical Love Poetry in 2014.The book introduces the reader to the form and flavour of Urdu ghazal which, undoubtedly, is the most popular and prized poetic genre in Urdu. He has translated Gopi Chand NarangвЂ™s seminal study of Ghalib, which was published as Ghalib: Innovative Meanings and the Ingenious Mind (2017). Surinder Deol is the author of Sahir: A Literary Portrait (2019). He is also former president of Sahitya Akademi, and has been awarded several national and international honours for his outstanding contribution to Urdu scholarship. Gopi Chand Narang is professor emeritus at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. It also illustrates different socio-political and cultural demands of changing times, primarily how the ghazal provided new creative models to deal with literary movements like progressivism, modernism, and postmodernism, through works of pioneering twentieth-century poets like Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Gulzar, and Javed Akhtar. The book elucidates classical ghazal forms that blossomed from the seeds sown by Amir Khusrau in the fourteenth century to achieve great heights of literary excellence during the next 300 years, notably in the works of great poets like Mir and Ghalib. It explores a variety of influences on the ghazal, including Sufism, Bhakti movement, and infusion of Rekhta and Persian languages and culture.

The Urdu Ghazal presents the unique flowering of the ghazal as a by-product of IndiaвЂ™s composite culture.

Urdu ghazals