Love, Longing, and Loss: The Emotional Landscape of Urdu Poetry
Aug 28, 2025
New Delhi [India], August 28: Urdu poetry is often described as the language of the heart--a deeply expressive medium through which love, longing, and loss are delicately explored. It blends elegance and intensity, articulating the deepest human emotions in compact, musical forms. In A Lover's Sigh by Ajit Singh Dutta, these emotions come to life through carefully translated ghazals and poems from legendary Urdu poets such as Ghalib, Faiz, and Sahir Ludhianvi. Each verse in the collection resonates with emotional complexity, demonstrating how Urdu poetry transcends language to reach the universal human soul. The experience is enhanced by Dutta's Introduction which offers the reader an understanding of the historical context and the structural confines that define this poetic artform.