Syed Akbar Hyder

Breaking Ghalib, Saving Urdu

Abstract No critic of Ghalib has acquired greater notoriety than Yas Yaganah Changezi, known in Urdu speaking circles as Ġhālib shikan, the “Ghalib breaker”—a title earned through his scathing critiques of Ghalib and everything the dominant Urdu milieu held sacred. For Yaganah, t...