Mirza Ghalib’s Poetry: Love, Doubt and the Beauty of Contradiction
Mirza Ghalib’s Urdu and Persian poetry remains central to the ghazal tradition because it allows desire, doubt, wit and grief to exist together. His couplets rarely settle for a simple emotional conclusion. Instead, they reveal a mind examining its own contradictions with both intensity and humour. The couplet’s turn A ghazal couplet often begins with an image or claim and then turns in a surpris…
