Essay On Mirza Ghalib

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, is one of the most celebrated Indian poets of classical Urdu and Persian, undoubtedly one of the most esteemed literary personalities during the British colonial era. Also known as Mirza Ghalib, Dabir-ul-Mulk and Najm-ud-Daula, Mirza Ghalib is considered one of the most influential Urdu poets from the Sub-continent, who is not only celebrated in India and Pakistan, but rather in communities worldwide.
Let us take you through the beautiful journey of Mirza Ghalib’s poetic career.
Mirza Ghalib, The Poet’s Biography
From the small age of 11, Mirza Ghalib began penning down poems in Urdu and Persian, which were taught and spoken at home, along with Turkish. He began his early education in Arabic and Persian, and later, in his early teens, a highly education Iranian tourist and Zaroastrian, Abdus Samad,

However, most commentators and scholars who have studied Ghalib’s work regard this legend as a made-up figment of someone’s imagination, since Ghalib appears to have used both his pen names quite frequently and interchangeably throughout his poetic career, and one cannot really determine if he preferred one over the other or not.
Ghalib’s ghazals and poetic work can be regarded as the perfect chronicle to understand the one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the subcontinent, the demise and decline of the Mughal Empire. Ghalib was there to see all the grand mohallas, katras and Bazaars of his time vanish into nothingness, while the grand havelis and mahals were people would get together to listen to his recent works had all been razed into the very ground.
Ghalib had not only documented the life in the glorious days of Delhi, but he was also there to witness Delhi turn into a dessert with scarce water and a decline of the feudal elite under who’s patronage Ghalib had flourished for years.
Ghalib describes that Delhi as a “military camp”, saying,
“An ocean of blood churns around