Firaq Gorakhpuri: The Poet of Pain & Esctasy
Firaq Gorakhpuri: The Poet of Pain & Esctasy

Author: Ajai Mansingh

Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited

Published: 2015-05-25

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 9351940829

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One of contemporary India’s most prolific Urdu poets, Firaq Gorakhpuri was well known for his ghazals, nazms, rubaais and qat’aa. His magnum opus, Gul-e-Naghma, won him the Jnanpith Award (1969), India’s first highest literary honour for literature. The other awards bestowed upon him include the Sahitya Akademi Award (1960), and the Ghalib Academy Award (1981). In this personalized biography, Firaq’s nephew, Ajai Mansingh, tells the compelling tale of the poet's life, inspiration, and struggles – shedding light on the trials and tribulations of one of India’s greatest literary figures. ‘Firaq is a poet of the labyrinths of emotions, the sensuousness and transcendence of beauty, and the merging shades of pain and ecstasy. The softness and suppleness of his voice does not have a parallel in Urdu poetry.’ — Gopi Chand Narang

The Urdu Ghazal
The Urdu Ghazal

Author: Gopi Chand Narang

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-01-02

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 019099004X

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The Urdu Ghazal presents the unique flowering of the ghazal as a by-product of India’s composite culture. It explores a variety of influences on the ghazal, including Sufism, Bhakti movement, and infusion of Rekhta and Persian languages and culture. 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 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.

Urdu Rubaiyat
Urdu Rubaiyat

Author: K. C. Kanda

Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9788120718272

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This book is intended to introduce the reader to the best specimens of the Urdu Nazm as distinguished from the ghazal. It contains English translation of 42 Nazms, chosen from the works of 19 famous poets. All the poems presented in this collection are now counted among the classics of Urdu poetry. Each poem is first given in Urdu calligraphics, followed on the opposite page by its translation in lucid rhythmical language, and is succeeded by the romanised version of Urdu text.

Celebrating the Best of Urdu Poetry
Celebrating the Best of Urdu Poetry

Author: Khushwant Singh

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2011-11-10

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9386057336

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Maangey Allah se bas itni dua hai Rashid Main jo Urdu mein vaseeyat likhoon beta parh ley All Rashid asks of Allah is just one small gift: If I write my will in Urdu, may my son be able to read it. Urdu, one of the most widely used languages in the subcontinent, is, sadly, dying a slow death in the land where it was born and where it flourished. This definitive collection spans over 200 years of Urdu poetry, celebrating well-known and relatively unknown poets alike. It is essential reading for all who love Urdu verse and for all looking for the ideal introduction.

The Best of Faiz
The Best of Faiz

Author: Shiv K Kumar

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2013-04-26

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 818400415X

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Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poetry continues to inspire and enthral contemporary readers. The Best of Faiz consists of Shiv K. Kumar’s translations of Faiz’s most popular Urdu poems into English. The collected poems include ‘Mujh Se Pehli Si’, ‘Subhe Azadi’, ‘Sochne Do’ and ‘Bol’. This edition also includes a translator’s foreword and the original poems in nastaliq and devanagari scripts.

Master Couplets of Urdu Poetry
Master Couplets of Urdu Poetry

Author: K. C. Kanda

Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

Published: 2001-07-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9788120723573

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This book offers a representative selection of humorous and satirical Urdu poetry, drawn from the works of seventeen major poets, including the classics like Mohammed Rafi Sauda and Akbar Allahabadi, besides the famous practitioners of this art in the 20th century. The poems are chosen on the basis of their artistic and thematic quality. These are then translated, verse by verse, into English, and transliterated in the Roman script for the benefit of the non-Urdu-knowing reader. This is probably the first book of its kind in Urdu-English translated literature.

The Mirror of Beauty
The Mirror of Beauty

Author: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2014-03-21

Total Pages: 1325

ISBN-13: 8184759932

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It is the sunset of the Mughal Empire. The splendour of imperial Delhi flares one last time. The young daughter of a craftsman in the city elopes with an officer of the East India Company. And so we are drawn into the story of Wazir Khanam: a dazzlingly beautiful and fiercely independent woman who takes a series of lovers, including a Navab and a Mughal prince—and whom history remembers as the mother of the famous poet Dagh. But it is not just one life that this novel sets out to capture: it paints in rapturous detail an entire civilization. Beginning with the story of an enigmatic and gifted painter in a village near Kishangarh, The Mirror of Beauty embarks on an epic journey that sweeps through the death-giving deserts of Rajputana, the verdant valley of Kashmir and the glorious cosmopolis of Delhi, the craft of miniature painting and the art of carpet designing, scintillating musical performances and recurring paintings of mysterious, alluring women. Its scope breathtaking, its language beguiling, and its style sumptuous, this is a work of profound beauty, depth and power.