Month: September 2024

After publishing the very informative Todi ki Riwayat in June 2019, Ustad Pervez Paras and Ayesha Nadir Ali have researched, authored and shared with us another beautiful compendium of analytic overviews of - and bandishes composed in - fifty-nine kinds of Kanada, beginning with the grand old and widely loved Darbari Kanada. The book cover, … Continue reading Kanaday ki Riwayat – July 2024 →

Abhisarika Nayika Braving a Storm, 1760–1770.   مجھے راہِ سخن میں خوفِ گمراہی نہیں غالبعصائے خضرِ صحرائے سخن ہے خامہ بیدل کا in the road/path of poetry/speech, I have no fear of losing the road, Ghalib the pen of Bedil is the staff of a Khizr of the desert of poetry/speech --- After yet another revamping of … Continue reading Aftab’s Fall 2024 Collection →