Can you please tell me if there is any book with compilation of Mirza Ghalib’s Poetry. I am searching for such book since quiet long time. Yes, it must also consist meaning of the poems/ghazals/shers side by side. Plz also mention where to buy the same from.

Thanks

Manish

on July 15th, 2006 at 3:19 am

Dear sir.
I am really impressed by your website for Ghalib.Many articles and books can be seen from here. You must also launched a urdu website on Ghalib as well.The two all time big schoalrs on Ghalib undoubtedly are Maulana Imtiaz Alikhan Arshi of Rampur India and equally his son Arshi zada who published Ghalib”s hand written Diwan at his Centenary year in 1969.What i have read from there research work (See the illustrous prefaces of Intikhab e Ghalib ,Makateeb e Ghalib,Farhang e Ghalib and Diwan e Ghalib Nuskhay arshi and also of Arshizada Diwan Bakhat e Ghalib ) tells the story that no new findings have come up from other scholars but only they some what have copied from Maulana’s diwan known as Nushkhay Arshi and Bakhat e Ghalib.
After Maulana’s contribution to Ghalib every tom and harry has come on seen with some of thier selected Ghazals from Ghalib published them and got the title of Mahir E Ghalibyat.Virtually every single work on Ghalib in English Language does carry this criteria.It seems they have taken an advantage with schaloars not knowing urdu.R.Russell and Khursheed ul Islam are perfect example of this literary crookness.

Mr. S. A Shaikh from Nederland can contact me at ayaz_27112005@yahoo.com. i may be a help for him in writing a book on Ghalib to be called Mahir e Ghalibyat.

Anyway a great contribution from you to Honoured Ghalib.

Prof.Ayaz khan (pakistan)