India, Feb. 13 -- Wild nights - Wild nights!

Were I with thee

Wild nights should be

Our luxury!

This love verse was penned by America's Emily Dickinson. The poet of Amherst was writing her passion poems around the same time when a world away another poet was writing his equally passionate poems-our Dilli's Mirza Ghalib! This Valentine's Day, here's a selection of some of Ghalib's romantic verses. All that you have to do, dear reader, is to tear out this page, carry it to Lodhi Garden, and read aloud the lines amid bees, bougainvilleas, and the park's many dogs. (The verses have been chosen by poetry scholar Aqil Ahmad of Delhi's Ghalib Academy who spends his days editing and annotating the lines that young folks rhyme out in love's de...