"Dil dhoondta hai phir wahi fursat ke raat din..." How often do we find ourselves yearning for the timeless verses of Mirza ...

Published by HarperCollins India, 'The Essential Ghalib' will be released on 6 January on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online ...

Let it be mentioned in passing that Ghalib had the deepest influences from the Persian poet of Mughal India – Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil and Bedil’s poetry in all its breadth is a homage to the ...

In this much-debated but iconic verse, Ghalib creates a cosmos of meaning relating to the metaphysical meaning of human existence and survival which constitutes the kernel of his poetry at large.

For several years after that, Uma Sharma, myself, the chief minister, and other admirers of Ghalib and poetry would gather at Chandni Chowk on the evening of December 27. Then with mashals and ...