Welcome to Mehr-e-Niimroz | The Noonday Sun. This site is dedicated mainly to Urdu and Persian poetry with a smattering of stuff on qawwali and other miscellaneous writings. For my work on economic issues please visit this site. For photographs and histories of the Deccan, please visit this site.
I have recently co-authored a small volume on the 19th CE Urdu/Persian poet, Mirza Asadullah Khan ‘Ghalib’. This book comes out of blog posts published here under the name “The Ghalib Project” along with blog posts published by my co-author on The South Asian Idea. Along with the book there is a series of short video clips on selected verses. I am also doing a Radio/Podcast show on Ghalib. Click on the images below for more details on the book.
mehr-e-niimroz | the noonday sun 