Srinagar, Dec. 30 -- Mirza Ghalib occupies a singular and enduring position in the history of Urdu poetry not merely as a poet of love, loss, and longing, but as a thinker whose work reflects a profound engagement with language, consciousness, existence, and meaning itself. Writing in a period marked by the decline of Mughal political authority, the intrusion of colonial modernity, and the fragmentation of traditional cultural structures, Ghalib confronted a world in which inherited certainties were dissolving and new forms of self-understanding had not yet stabilized. This historical and psychological condition produced in his poetry a deep awareness of rupture, uncertainty, and existential disquiet. It is within this context that silenc...