Poetry of India 43/100: Raghupati Sahay ‘Firaq Gorakhpuri’ and the Humanism of Urdu Ghazal
Part 43 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through Indian poetry. Firaq Gorakhpuri, the pen name of Raghupati Sahay, was a major Urdu poet whose ghazals explore love, memory, beauty and the complexity of human feeling. His work belongs to a rich tradition in which a couplet can hold several meanings at once: personal, philosophical and social. The ghazal’s architecture A ghazal is built from …
