Ghalib

admired aesthetic Aligarh Alwar Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu ardour Bahadur Shah beauty beloved's charm chronogram couplet courtesan's salon courtesans create critics death Delhi desert desire despair drink dust ecstasy existence eyes Farhad fate feet flame flowers friends garden Ghalib wrote ghazals and verses glance grace grief Hadith hand heart hope ideas idiom imprisonment Imtiaz Ali India intellectual Islam journey Laila later phase letters life's lightning literary literature living look Love's lover Lucknow madness Majnun Maulana meaning Mercy mind Mirza Ghalib Mirza Hatim mood morning breeze Mughal Muslim nature Nawabs night pain passion Persian poet poet's poetic image poetic tradition recognised Sahitya Akademi saqi saqi's self-assertion Shah Alam Shah Ismail Shahid Shaikh shariah sigh sight Sindhia social sorrows splendour spring Sufi sword symbols taper tavern tears Thee Thine thought town translator tresses Umrao Begum Urdu poetry urge wine women world of spirits writing