I wrote the first 4 lines of this Nazm last Saturday afternoon while doing some studying. It seemed more like my pen started writing all by itself. Next morning while sipping tea and watching the squirrels eat bread on my balcony, I picked up (or my pen did) from where I had left and ended…
Category: Urdu/Hindi Poetry
I wrote this around Midnight of 12th of August. Just a fleeting Nazm I wrote as a thought passed through my mind. Might need to do some more work on it. Khayaal aur Tasavvuraat bhi are like a puff of wind. Never know when they come, never know when they leave. Comments are welcome. Here…
Wo Jo Shayar Tha is another superb Nazm by Gulzar Sahab. I have a few of his books, and noted it down a couple months ago. I related to this one very closely and it’s a personal favorite of mine. Enjoy reading. Romanized form: Wo jo shayar tha, chup sa rehta tha Behki behki si…
I had been thinking of posting this Nazm by Javed Akhtar for quite some time now and finally decided to put it out this evening. Although it really is a very short and simple Nazm, but there is still something in it, that makes me want to read it over and again. A personal choice…
Here is a Nazm by the Rebel Shayar, Sahir Ludhianvi. A revolutonary Urdu Poet in his own right, he really took the world of Urdu Poetry by storm with his wave of change and ideas that only he could express so artistically. Enjoy this ‘a little hard to understand’, but outstanding Nazm.
Not many people know that the last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar was also an Urdu poet of a very high order and it was during his reign that Urdu Shayri reached its Zenith. As Sanjay Garg outlines in his book, Maqta – Zafar on Zafar, “Zafar’s reign was a golden era of Urdu Ghazal…
Here is another marvel of a Nazm by Dr Rahi Masoom Raza. Enjoy!
Haven’t had a chance to write or record anything in last 3 weeks due to my move from Michigan to California. Google is keeping me busy and other than getting lost on highways once in a while, things are not that bad. Last night I wrote a Nazm before going to bed around Midnight. Slightly…
Ek purani Ghazal pesh e khidmat hai. I had written it what seems like so long ago. Before I put up the Ghazal, I would like to present a Sher in Lal Sahab’s voice from one of the Videos we shot in December 2006. I dedicate this sher to all readers of this site ….
Here is a Ghazal by a noted contemporary Shayar, Ibrahim Ashq. It is taken from his book, Alaav – which I bought at a book fair at Rohtak during my stay in India. Enjoy! For those who can’t read Hindi, here is the romanized form: Teri judai ne is dil ko dardmand kiya Bichad ke…