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Technicalities of Ghazal III – Digging Deeper
Click on the parts to read the previous articles in this series:Â Part I, Part II [ad name=”linkunit468x15″] Now that we know how to weigh the words according to their sounds, it’s time to move on and see how we can fit these words in a meter. Lets start off with the answers to the…
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Technicalities of Ghazal II – Weighing your words!
Click to read the previous article in this series:Â Part I [ad name=”linkunit468x15″] Part II of the series: We will talk about what do we mean when we discuss the weight of a word in Urdu poetry. Before we begin, let me clarify something, I have no pure technical knowledge of how the meter works…
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Technicalities of Ghazal I
[ad name=”linkunit468x15″] While there are several good articles out on the internet about the technicalities of ghazals and how to ensure that you are writing in meter, I thought I might as well add something myself as despite sending a lot of friends to those links, I find that people understand better when I explain…
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I Think…
I think: We are slaves of habits and desires and it takes a really strong will to change these habits or to overcome these desires. Incidently, India lost. Pathetic display of course, but they didn’t deserve to get to the next round in World-Cup, not after you lose against Bangladesh in the first match. Not…
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All eyes on India vs SL
So we lost against Bangladesh, yes it was really disheartning, it was unexpected, it took all of us by surprise. Did we play bad? Its easy to blame everything on our team’s faults but lets give some credit to the young Bangla players who outperformed an experienced Indian team (and no, our team is not…