Mirza Ghalib

1. naqsh
   fariyaadee hai kiskee shoKHee-e-tehreer ka
   kaaGHazee hai pairhan har paikar-e-tasweer ka
    
2. kaave-kaave
   saKHt_jaanee haay tanhaaee na pooch
   subah karna shaam ka laana hai joo-e-sheer ka
    
3. 
   jazba-e-be_iKHtiyaar-e-shauq dekha chaahiye
   seena-e-shamsheer se baahar hai dam shamsheer ka
    
4. aagahee
   daam-e-shuneedan jis qadar chaahe bichaaye
   mudda’a ‘anqa hai apne aalam-e-taqreer ka
    
5. bus ke hooN ‘GHalib’
   aseeree meiN bhee aatish zer-e-pa
   moo-e-aatish_deeda hai halqa meree zanjeer ka

In or around 1810, two events of great importance occured in Ghalib’s life: he was married to a well-to-do, educated family of nobles, and he left for Delhi. One must remember that Ghalib was only thirteen at the time. It is impossible to say when Ghalib started writing poetry. Perhaps it was as early as his seventh or eight years. On the other hand, there is evidence that most of what we know as his complete works were substantially completed by 1816, when he was 19 years old, and six years after he first came to Delhi. We are obviously dealing with a man whose maturation was both early and rapid. We can safely conjecture that the migration from Agra, which had once been a capital but was now one of the many important but declining cities, to Delhi, its grandeur kept intact by the existence of the moghul court, was an important event in the life of this thirteen year old, newly married poet who desparately needed material security, who was beginning to take his career in letters seriously, and who was soon to be recognized as a genius, if not by the court, at least some of his most important comtemporaries. As for the marriage, in the predominantly male-oriented society of Muslim India no one could expect Ghalib to take that event terribly seriously, and he didn’t. The period did, however mark the beginnings of concern with material advancement that was to obsess him for the rest of his life.

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