Throughout history, elegies have been composed in different languages. Shakespeare’s works, Grey’s Elegy in a Country Graveyard, the 400 verses of Mr John Pong on the martyrdom of Imam Hussain (AS) ...

MARSIYA, or elegy, is derived from an Arabic word which means ‘to mourn the dead and eulogise them’. With the word marsiya, one naturally thinks of the martyrs of Karbala, but the ones that bewail and ...

Importance of Marsiya During Muharram: It will be a rare person who can claim immunity to the pains and pleasures that poetry can bring, be that in the form of lyrics or poems, sung or orated. Words ...

As is usual with our Hijri Calendar, we started the new year with the observance of the season of sorrow, or what we in our language call Mausam-i-aza. We are now at the end of the main part of this ...

The Jashn-e-Bahar Trust recently organised Dastan-e-Marsiya: Karbala se Kashi tak, an evening dedicated to Marsiya. Marsiya is a poetic form that commemorates the martyrdom and courage of Hazrat Imam ...

There is no denying that George W Bush had a great sense of humour. When awarding the then little known Dr Anthony Fauci with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work on HIV/AIDS in 2008, he ...