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Wednesday, 7 April 2010

A visit to the kotha- extract from 'Samlee's daughter'

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---------------------------10/IX--------------------------- Gar kiya vo mujhé nazar se raqibon mein shaamil Hunooz zaban se karti vo ummidon...
Monday, 5 April 2010

Ghalib's ghazal 111

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There is a theory that if a poem means the same thing to us each time we read it, then either it isn't really a poem, or else, we aren...
Friday, 2 April 2010

Ghalib, ghazal 20- yeh na thi hamari qismat

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Click here for audio-  To be in tryst united, not I could twist my fate If longer life invited, I'd yet forlornly wait Did I live...
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Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Ghalib's ghazals- is it all just Wine, Whining and Word play?

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Neither Mystic, nor Mutineer, nor heralding a new day Of Ghalib, Ghazal's God, 'tis our via negativa to say  'He loved Wine, gau...

Ghalib's safina and Ibn Arabi's 'ship of stone'

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Amongst many treasures contained in the Ibn Arabi Society website, is a beautiful essay by Claude Addas titled 'the Ship of Stone'. ...
Monday, 29 March 2010

Ghalib's 'jab tak dahaan-e-zakhm'

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jab tak dahaan-e zakhm nah paidaa kare koi mushkil hai tujh se raah-e sukhan vaa kare koi ʿ ālam ġhubār-e va ḥ shat-e majnūñ hai sar-ba-sar ...
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Saturday, 27 March 2010

barzakh- a partition which both unites and divides

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Click here for an essay on Ibn al Arabi's concept of the barzakh and here  for a description of it as a sort of purgatory sharing featu...
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