I consequently have to admit that growing up in India one is aware that Ghalib ka naam tho sab koi jaane. Of course, I knew of him as perhaps the foremost poet of Urdu; that he lived through the ...

Ghalib’s timeless prose and poetry in Urdu and Persian — with his unique narrative style ‘Andaz-e-Bayan’ — revolve around existential struggles, love, loss, sociopolitical disturbances ...