‘I have lost my appetite’: Gulzar’s Murari Lal has a view on India’s Budget 2022

‘The creases don’t quite leave Murari Lal’s forehead.’

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· Feb 02, 2022 · 09:33 am

Gulzar on Bimal Roy, the director who ‘lived and breathed films’

An excerpt from a memoir translated from the Bengali by Maharghya Chakraborty.

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· Jan 06, 2022 · 08:45 am

Gulzar on the tragedy of Afghanistan: Four poems and a short story

Translated from the original Urdu by Rakhshanda Jalil.

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· Sep 29, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘Faith is trapped in the teeth of fire’: Two poems by Gulzar on India today

‘Once again necks have lolled, heads have been chopped off / People have been divided, and their gods too.’

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· Apr 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘We have heard your call’: Gulzar replies to Javed Akhtar’s stirring poem asking writers to speak up

‘You are not alone, we have heeded that challenge’

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· Mar 23, 2019 · 01:11 pm

‘I suggested we keep the chorus in Malayalam’: Gulzar on the making of ‘Jiya Jale’ from ‘Dil Se’

The renowned lyricist tells Nasreen Munni Kabir about the story behind the song and many others in a new book.

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· Dec 09, 2018 · 08:15 am

You love Gulzar the poet and lyricist. Now meet Gulzar the novelist

The celebrated poet has written short stories before but ‘Two’ is his very first novel, on the Partition and its aftermath.

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· Nov 30, 2017 · 08:30 am

Eight poems by Gulzar we need to read on Republic Day

‘The wind is bitingly cold, and it is 26th January / Fog is all around…’

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· Jan 26, 2017 · 08:30 am

'A morning walk': A poem by Gulzar

'With no noun in sight I unleashed it on the green...'

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· Jan 01, 2017 · 06:00 am

Trivenis: On Gulzar’s 81st birthday, twelve poems in a form of his invention

A unique three-line format in which the third adds an unexpected dimension to the first two.

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· Aug 18, 2015 · 01:00 pm