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Ghalib
saidundated
The prison of life and the bondage of grief are one and the sameBefore the onset of death, why should man expect to be free of grief?
Ghalib
Indian poet (1797-1869)
- Fame62.1
- Momentum1.7
- India rank#207
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Updated 2026-06-09
A poet who wrote during the Mughal Empire's collapse and spent most of his life broke, yet his Urdu ghazals — intricate, layered, unflinching about love and loss — became the standard by which an entire literary tradition measures itself.
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Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan was born on 27 December 1797, as the Mughal Empire entered its final decades and British colonial rule tightened its grip on India. Writing in both Persian and Urdu, he produced a Persian body of work at least five times the length of his Urdu output, but it was the Urdu ghazals that secured his legacy. His verse tackled love, loss, philosophy, the human condition, and the socio-political upheaval surrounding him with a complexity and depth that reshaped the literary conventions of his era. He lived most of his years in poverty, dying on 15 February 1869. Today his wor…
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Ghalib
saidundated
Just like a child's play this world appears to meEvery single night and day, this spectacle I see.
Ghalib
saidundated
It is not praised if you are the only one to understand what you speakinteresting is the situation when you speak and the others understand.
Ghalib
saidundated
The happiness of the world is nothing for mefor my heart is left with no feeling besides blood.
Ghalib
saidundated
If what the eye sees does not rankle in the heartSweet is the flow of life in travel spent.
— Ghalib (M. Mujeeb), p. 15
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