Maaz Bin BilalOct 8, 20221 min readA Translation of Ghalib's Persian Ode to Banaras Reminds Us of What Makes Us HindustaniThe Ghalib we encounter in 'Temple Lamp' – Maaz Bin Bilal’s translation of 'Chirag-e-Dair' – is not the Ghalib we know from his ghazals.Review of Temple Lamp for The Wire on 5 September 2022 by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
The Ghalib we encounter in 'Temple Lamp' – Maaz Bin Bilal’s translation of 'Chirag-e-Dair' – is not the Ghalib we know from his ghazals.Review of Temple Lamp for The Wire on 5 September 2022 by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
‘Temple Lamp’: Mirza Ghalib’s poem on Banaras is an ode to the ancient city’s cosmopolitan heritageOriginally titled ‘Chirag-e-Dair’, this long poem written by Mirza Ghalib has been translated from the Persian into English in its entirety for the first time. by Rana Safvi https://scroll.in/article/