Urdu daan

Another bit of poignancy from Jaun!

Naqsh faryadi hai kiski, has baffled many for 2 centuries now. Ranging from people calling it meaningless to straight up being entranced by it. Come, let's discuss the first ghazal of Mirza Ghalib's collection.

Abdul Hameed 'Adam' was a pakistani writer and poet, who also fought in the second world war. His writings, as the choice of his penname suggests, carry a probe into the unknown. A question perhaps, of what is and what isn't. Listen to this very Adam embodying ghazal of his.

One of the most popular poets of his time, Obaidullah Aleem was born in Bhopal, and later migrated to Pakistan. This title of the nazm is also the title of his first poetry collection. He is definitely a poet worth reading.

Rarely have I seen someone's work so radiantly romantic. Enjoy this hesrt-warming ghazal.

Parveen Shakir was and still is one of the most popular female poets ever to have taken up the ghazal form. But being a woman, her voice isn't entirely feminine. It speaks from all angles.

The quintessential Faraz ghazal with all the romance one can imagine. Faraz here paints a woman who is beyond all comparison, and yet someone the poet desires in her as well as his human capacity.

I haven't read much of his kalaam, but this misra - koi mehr nahi koi qehr nahi, phir sacha sher sunayen kya.. just drives a dagger through my heart.

A really romantic ghazal by the Indian maestro, that was later used as a zameen by Faiz, to honour Makhdoom.