Published on, Sept. 27 -- September 27, 2025 7:39 AM

Ghalib is the undisputed pride of South Asian culture and society. He has remained an exalted genius and an unsurpassable intellect even after 150 years of his demise. His poetry echoes all shades of human life and existence. While he personally rated his Persian poetry as the hallmark of his genius, the Urdu poetry penned in the early years of his creative life earned him great fame. The famous Indian critic Abdur Raheem Bajnawri showered his accolades by saying that 'only two inspirational books descended on subcontinent soil: Sacred Vedas and Dewan e Ghalib'. There is no doubt that his thoughts and ideas were for all men of all times to come. He touched upon the essential human aspe...