These tawaifs also used to sing the ghazals. So much so, that the children of the royal families of the Nawabs used to be sent to them to learn the art of music and singing and poetry. One example is that of Mirza Ruswa’s Umrao Jan. The ghazals were so popular that they used to...
The woman has been both subject and predicate in a great deal of writing by male writers. In poetry she has, of course, been the subject of vast amounts of romantic, even sensuous imagery. Be it muse or mother, vamp or victim, fulsome or flawed, there has been a tendency among male...