Through their biographies and poetry--including their best-known ghazals--it also paints a compelling portrait of Mughal Delhi. This is a book for anyone who has ever been touched by Urdu or Delhi, by poetry or romance.
Author: Saif Mahmood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9388326040
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 368
View: 206
'A riveting resurrection of the city of poets, the city of history, Saif Mahmood's learned and evocative book takes us to the heart of Delhi's romance with Urdu verse and aesthetics.'--Namita Gokhale Urdu poetry rules the cultural and emotional landscape of India--especially northern India and much of the Deccan--and of Pakistan. And it was in the great, ancient city of Delhi that Urdu grew to become one of the world's most beautiful languages. Through the 18th and 19th centuries, while the Mughal Empire was in decline, Delhi became the capital of a parallel kingdom--the kingdom of Urdu poetry--producing some of the greatest, most popular poets of all time. They wrote about the pleasure and pain of love, about the splendour of God and the villainy of preachers, about the seductions of wine, and about Delhi, their beloved home. This treasure of a book documents the life and work of the finest classical Urdu poets: Sauda, Dard, Mir, Ghalib, Momin, Zafar, Zauq and Daagh. Through their biographies and poetry--including their best-known ghazals--it also paints a compelling portrait of Mughal Delhi. This is a book for anyone who has ever been touched by Urdu or Delhi, by poetry or romance.
Abhay K. for My beloved Delhi, the palimpsest city PREFACE There must be very
few cities in the world.
Author: Abhay K.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9789386606631
Category: Poetry
Page: 100
View: 819
Delhi has been widely described as a dry, energy draining place, even a hermaphrodite...the authors attempts in the book to prove otherwise. At first glance, his short, epigrammatic poems might appear just flaccid snapshots or single-boned vignettes of an outsider in a mad and sprawling metropolis known these days for its infamous gang rapes. But a closer look reveals how the poet steps back to withdraw his self into a cocoon, to gain an artistic poise and to empower each and every item, object, relic, monument and figure - a distinct voice and color. Lal Quila, Jantar Mantar, a flower girl, an auto rickshaw, Connaught Place, a house maid, Rahim, Jamun tree, Ghalib or Dara Shikoh walk with their first person personas in the lanes of Delhi conjuring a memorable recital, a jam that defines the essence of this legendary city...'Seduction of Delhi' is an artistic triumph in many ways...”
in the capital, Delhi, a band of men so talented that their meetings and
assemblies recall those of the days of Akbar and ... disillusioned to make the
journey, he no doubt heard of the revival in his beloved Delhi, of the musha'aras
of his youth.
Author: Avril Ann Powell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136100420
Category: Social Science
Page: 339
View: 424
Focuses on the period leading up to the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
Delhi My Delhi , My Dear Delhi My beloved Delhi Everyweek has a rally How vast
is her belly Some in the name of God And some in the name of Mammon They
impede the traffic like a Demon . Seven Times she died Like Phoenix she has the
...
Beyond Old Delhi and New Delhi, beyond the Newer Delhis of Gurgaon and the
desirable new suburbs of Sarita Vihar and New ... The djinns, those ancient
haunters of their beloved Delhi, they understood; and older than they, the gods.
Author: Ian McDonald
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9780575087934
Category: Fiction
Page: 488
View: 523
The world: 'Cyberabad' is the India of 2047, a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water-wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity and a population where males out-number females four to one. India herself has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas. Cyberabad is a collection of 7 stories: The Little Goddess. Hugo nominee Best Novella 2006. In near future Nepal, a child-goddess discovers what lies on the other side of godhood. The Djinn's Wife. Hugo nominee and BSFA short fiction winner 2007 A minor Delhi celebrity falls in love with an artificial intelligence but is it a marriage of heaven and hell? The Dust Assassin. Feuding Rajasthan water-rajas find that revenge is a slow, subtle process. Jasbir and Sujay go Shaadi. Love and marriage should be plain-sailing when your matchmaker is a soap-star artificial intelligence Sanjeev and Robotwallah. What happens to the boy-soldier roboteers when the war of Separation is over? Kyle meets the River. A young American in Varanas learns the true meaning of 'nation building' in the early days of a new country. Vishnu at the Cat Circus. A genetically improved 'Brahmin' child finds himself left behind as he grows through the final generation of humanity.
Thousands made the attempt ; but a general famine was then raging , and while
many perished by the way , many more reached their beloved Delhi , only to die
in it . The most formidable insurrection of all broke out in the south . It was the ...
Thousands made the attempt ; but a general famine was then raging , and while
many perished by the way , many more reached their beloved Delhi , only to die
in it . The most formidable insurrection of all broke out in the south . It was the ...
Knowing that he would not be allowed to go to his beloved Delhi to be buried , he
composed a very famous poem . The following is an important line from that
poem , " Do gaz zamin bhi na mili koye yaar men " ( Singh and Rai , 1983 : 23 ) o
.
... succession of invaders from Persia and Afghanistan, India's focus moved
inexorably eastwards, from Delhi to Lucknow. ... flee from his beloved Delhi in an
effort to escape the now insupportable violence and instability of the Moghul
capital.
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 9780007373161
Category: Travel
Page: 352
View: 651
William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in ‘City of Djinns’, returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.
102 In the end though , William never had to experience this exile from his beloved Delhi . On the night of the 22 March 1835 , Fraser was assassinated as
he rode back at night from an entertainment at the house of the maharaja of
Kishengarh ...
Author: Margrit Pernau
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: UOM:39015066746937
Category: Education
Page: 340
View: 676
This volume explores the history of the Delhi college - considered the centre of Delhi Renaissance and the meeting ground between British and Oriental culture before 1857 - against the background of both traditional scholarship and the British education policy in the first half of the nineteenth century.
It is our earnest desire that these changes may conduce to the better
administration of India and the greater prosperity and happiness of our beloved
people. REPLY TO DELHI MUNICIPALITY On the 13th, the Madras and the Delhi
Municipal ...
Author: John Capper
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 8120612825
Category: Delhi (India)
Page: 180
View: 628
Revised And Enlarged Edition Of All About Delhi With 54 Illustrations. (The Book Gives In A Modest Compass, A Succinct History Of The Hindu, Pathan And Moghul Dynasties Who Reigned Over Delhi, And Also A Vivid Account Of The British Occupation, Together With The Story Of The Mutiny, The History And Antiquities Of Delhi.) Graphic Accounts Of Notable Sights And Scenes From Well-Known Travellers And Visitors Are Presented With Suitable Reproductions Of Illustrations.
Delhi Pillar , Edict IX . ( Prinsep ) . “ Not that the beloved of the gods deemeth
offerings or prayers to be of the same value with true ( spiritual ? ) glory . ” — Delhi Pillar , Edict XII . ( Prinsep ) . “ The beloved of the gods doth not esteem
either ...
Provisions are dear , the air is full of fever , and above all beloved Delhi seems in
this out of the world station even more distant than it really is . The reaction
against the new country which had commenced at Lahore is complete as the
traveller ...
Provisions are dear , the air is full of fever , and above all beloved Delhi seems in
this out of the world station even more distant than it really is . The reaction
against the new country which had commenced at Lahore is complete as the
traveller ...
Harriet Eleanor Coleman 1795–1824 beloved wife of John James Coleman ,
deeply mourned by her husband and three children . ' The tombstone was hot but
not burning to the touch . The sky today was sullen and swollen , heavy with ...
Author: Nayantara Sahgal
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 0143102753
Category: New Delhi (India)
Page: 200
View: 341
&Lsquo;She Missed The Sense Of Values Shivraj Had Planted Like Roses With His Two Hands. It Was Their Fragrance, Something As Ephemeral As That, That Had Bound The Country Together In A Unity, Not Any Hidebound Principle Or Rule From A Book.&Rsquo; Shivraj Is Dead And With Him The Values With Which He Had Governed The Country For Over A Decade. While His Successors Destroy The Idealistic World He Had Built, Shivraj&Rsquo;S Circle Of Intimate Friends&Mdash;His Sister Devi, The Education Minister; Usman Ali, Vice Chancellor Of Delhi University; And Michael Calvert, An English Writer&Mdash;Struggle To Find Order In The Chaos, Even As Rishad, Devi&Rsquo;S Son, Loses Himself In It. Juxtaposing The Conflict Of Personal Relationships With The Larger Canvas Of Corrupt Politics In A Situation In New Delhi, Nayantara Sahgal Masterfully Weaves A Tale That Grips The Reader From Start To Finish. &Lsquo;A Brilliant And Provocative Piece Of Fact-Based Fiction&Rsquo;&Mdash;Financial Times &Lsquo;A Moving, Even Inspiring Novel&Rsquo;&Mdash;Sunday Times
My Dárá is gone , my beloved is filed , And Hind , is to me like the land of the
dead : Dárá Shikoh , my son . Like Jacob's my eyes with their weeping are wan ;
My Joseph like Jacob's to Egypt is gone : Dárá Shikoh , my son . In age I have
thee ...
Chapter III Mahbub Ali Pasha , with The Beloved December , 1911 , was the date
set for the great Delhi Durbar . His Majesty , George V , King of Great Britain and
Ireland , and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas , Emperor of India ...
The five articles comprising the third section entitled " The First Round ” take us
directly into that inferno when hell broke loose in Delhi at the time of Mrs Gandhi's
assassination . All these pieces - " Recalling the Days " by Vachitra Sharma ...
Motilal Jotwani, Sufis of Sindh, New Delhi, 1986 Amena Khamisani (trans.), The
Risalo of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, Bhitshah, 2003 Shah Abdul Latif (trans. Anju
Makhija and Hari Dilgir), Seeking the Beloved, New Delhi, 2005 Roland and ...
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781408803417
Category: Travel
Page: 304
View: 429
Three brothers from a remote village in the Himalayas are driven by poverty to become monks. One becomes a famous masked dancer; the second an accomplished player of the Tibetan temple trumpet; and the third a great Buddhist scholar. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. A woman leaves her middle class family in Calcutta and her job in a jute factory, only to find unexpected love and fulfillment living as a tantric in a skull-filled hut in remote a cremation ground. A prison warder from Kerala becomes for two months of the year a temple dancer and is worshipped as an incarnate deity; then, at the end of February each year, he returns to prison. An idol maker, the thirty-fifth of a long line of sculptors going back to the legendary Chola bronze makers, regards creating Gods as one of the holiest callings in India, but has to reconcile himself to his son who only wants to study computer engineering. An illiterate goat herd from Rajasthan keeps alive an ancient 200,000-stanza sacred epic that he, virtually alone, still knows by heart. A devadasi - or temple prostitute - initially resists her own initiation into sex work, yet pushes both her daughters into a trade she regards as a sacred calling. Nine people, nine lives. Each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story.Exquisite and mesmerizing, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple's first travel book in a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change. Nine Lives is a distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions, taking you deep into worlds that you would never have imagined even existed.
He was a witness to the fall and destruction of his beloved city , Delhi , in 1857.
Though he never collected his poems , or even kept them properly , his influence
on the poets of his generation and subsequent generations has been so ...
Author: G. N. Devy
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 8125020225
Category: Indic literature
Page: 430
View: 849
Literary criticism produced by Indian scholars from the earliest times to the present age is represented in this book. These include Bharatamuni, Tholkappiyar, Anandavardhana, Abhinavagupta, Jnaneshwara, Amir Khusrau, Mirza Ghalib, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, B.S. Mardhekar, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and A.K. Ramanujam and Sudhir Kakar among others. Their statements have been translated into English by specialists from Sanskrit, Persian and other languages.
