Poetry of India 6/100: Ghalib’s Urdu Poetry and the Paradox of the Human Heart
Part 6 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through India’s poetic heritage.Mirza Ghalib, one of the most celebrated poets of Urdu and Persian, wrote with extraordinary sensitivity about love, loss, desire, doubt and the limits of human understanding. His ghazals rarely offer simple emotional answers. Instead, they place opposing feelings beside each other: hope and disappointment, pride and vu…
