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Ghazal, and Its Place in Music

Film and non-film genre of ghazals This essay is about ghazals; the advent of ghazals into our traditional music and into Hindi films. NS Rajan explores the...

Literary Criticism

Ai Mohabbat Tere Anjaam Pe: A Ballad of Failed Love

Ai mohabbat tere anjaam pe rona aayaa - a Shakeel ghazal is one of the best on the point of failed love, rendered timeless by Begum Akhtar's gaayaki. Vijay Kumar translates it into...

English Translations

How to Write an English Ghazal

This is a brief description on how to write or not write an English ghazal with its rules and regulations and do's and don'ts.

Madhu Verma on Winning the Fastest Line Follower Trophy at Technoxian World Robotics Championship
Congratulations to budding robotics enthusiasts Ayush Gupta, Shrutika Negi, and Sampriti Bisht for winning the Fastest Line Follower Trophy at the Tec...
A K Nanda on Ei Korechho Bhalo Nithur He — English Translation of Tagore’s Song
Rajan Ji I'm extremely grateful for your comments on my translation of Tagore's poem of Geetanjali "Ei Korechho Bhalo". I had to do this on the insis...
NS Rajan on Ei Korechho Bhalo Nithur He — English Translation of Tagore’s Song
Nandaji. Namashkar. I have no knowledge of Bangla. But who hasn't heard of 'Geetanjali'? it is an irony that when I was in College in 1952, I won tw...
Cathy on Kiski Roti?
Fog tend to cloud and disappate. Hope does not. With each step into each pocket of visual clarity, wisdom and comprehension is observed. The style of ...
dr.k.g.balakrishnan kandangath Yesterday You said on Poetry and Keralite Writing in English – 1
Dr. K. G. Balakrishnan Kandangath poet is the poet introducer of "Nascent Poetry" in English and Malayalam. -"Poetry Just Evolved from "the Innermost ...