Article Archive – Urdu Gallery https://urdugallery.com An Unique Showcase In Roman Urdu Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:15:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://urdugallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cropped-ug-columns-1-32x32.jpg Article Archive – Urdu Gallery https://urdugallery.com 32 32 Portrait of a Genius https://urdugallery.com/portrait-of-a-genius.html https://urdugallery.com/portrait-of-a-genius.html#respond Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:14:26 +0000 https://urdugallery.com/?p=4527 This is from an album Portrait of a Genius , a Ghalib cenetenary presentation. I wanted to share with you all the enormous pleasure that I received from this album. I hope you�ll also find it useful and enjoyable. Corrections/additions/comments welcome. Printed notes on the cover were given by Ali Sardar Jafri for this release. The album contains eight ghazals interpersed with prose.

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]]> https://urdugallery.com/portrait-of-a-genius.html/feed 0 Urdu Nazm : An Introduction https://urdugallery.com/urdu-nazm-an-introduction.html https://urdugallery.com/urdu-nazm-an-introduction.html#respond Tue, 19 May 2026 13:33:00 +0000 https://urdugallery.com/?p=4438 The ghazal in Urdu represents the most popular form of subjective poetry, while the nazm exemplifies the objective kind, often reserved for narrative, descriptive, didactic or satirical purposes. Under the broad head of the nazm we may also include the classical forms of poems known by specific names such as masnavi (a long narrative poem in rhyming couplets on any theme: romantic, religious…

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]]> https://urdugallery.com/urdu-nazm-an-introduction.html/feed 0 Urdu Ghazal : An Introduction https://urdugallery.com/urdu-ghazal-an-introduction.html https://urdugallery.com/urdu-ghazal-an-introduction.html#respond Tue, 19 May 2026 13:30:12 +0000 https://urdugallery.com/?p=4435 Ghazal originated in Iran in the 10th century A.D. It grew from the Persian qasida, which verse form had come to Iran from Arabia. The qasida was a panegyric written in praise of the emperor or his noblemen. The part of the qasida called tashbib got detached and developed in due course of time into the ghazal. Whereas the qasida sometimes ran into as many as 100 couplets or more in monorhyme…

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]]> https://urdugallery.com/urdu-ghazal-an-introduction.html/feed 0 Sahir’s Stuff : Socialistic or Sufiyaa? https://urdugallery.com/sahirs-stuff-socialistic-or-sufiyaa.html https://urdugallery.com/sahirs-stuff-socialistic-or-sufiyaa.html#respond Tue, 19 May 2026 13:28:01 +0000 https://urdugallery.com/?p=4433

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]]> https://urdugallery.com/sahirs-stuff-socialistic-or-sufiyaa.html/feed 0 Sahir – A Timeless Treat https://urdugallery.com/sahir-a-timeless-treat.html https://urdugallery.com/sahir-a-timeless-treat.html#respond Tue, 19 May 2026 13:23:55 +0000 https://urdugallery.com/?p=4429 Hi, Here’s an article by Balpreet on Sahir that appeared in Indian Express of October 25, 1998 – exactly 18 years after “the social conscience of Hindi cinema took its final blow.” My comments are enclosed in “< >”. – Vinay P Jain Duniya ne tajurbaat-o-havadis ki shakl mein jo kuchh mujhe diya hai, wo lauta raha hun main (I am returing whatever the world has granted me by way of…

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]]> https://urdugallery.com/sahir-a-timeless-treat.html/feed 0 Progressive Movement and Urdu Poetry https://urdugallery.com/progressive-movement-and-urdu-poetry.html https://urdugallery.com/progressive-movement-and-urdu-poetry.html#respond Tue, 19 May 2026 13:16:25 +0000 https://urdugallery.com/?p=4425 Author: Ali Sardar Jafri The Progressive Movement widened the horizon of Urdu poetry; liberated it from the classical cliche, and added fresh modern imagery structure to the poem; used the rhyming scheme with fresh vigour and introduced and developed new forms like free verse, dramatic and allegorical poems, with experiments in meters; gave it an ideological content and used it as a weapon in…

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]]> https://urdugallery.com/progressive-movement-and-urdu-poetry.html/feed 0 Courtesans of Lucknow and Urdu Poetry https://urdugallery.com/courtesans-of-lucknow-and-urdu-poetry.html https://urdugallery.com/courtesans-of-lucknow-and-urdu-poetry.html#respond Tue, 19 May 2026 13:11:26 +0000 https://urdugallery.com/?p=4422 As Mughal rule in Delhi declined, the Nawabs of Avadh came into their own, of course with the help of English, who were more than eager to help. Many courtesans moved from Delhi and surrounding areas to Lucknow, and Urdu poets and the seat of Urdu poetry went with them, to Lucknow where easy money was available in abundance, thanks to the poor farmers, who, as usual, were unaware of the doings of…

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]]> https://urdugallery.com/courtesans-of-lucknow-and-urdu-poetry.html/feed 0 Bah’r : The Backbone of Shaayari https://urdugallery.com/bahr-the-backbone-of-shaayari.html https://urdugallery.com/bahr-the-backbone-of-shaayari.html#respond Tue, 19 May 2026 09:49:43 +0000 https://urdugallery.com/?p=4412 Before I started writing this article, I thought several times if I had the knowledge and expertise to dwell on a subject as vast and complex as ‘shaayari’. After all, I have taken only the first step towards learning this great art. But then I thought that my experience might help those who are yet to take that first step. So here I am, with my explanation of ‘bah’r’, the most important technical…

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