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Ghazals of Ghalib eBook Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Sasha Newborn

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Ghalib was a master poet in India, writing in Persian and Urdu. His father and uncle were mercenaries for one or another of the Rajahs, with their own troops of soldiers; however, both died when Ghalib was young, so he sought his living from the courts as a wit. When the British conquered India, Ghalib wrote to Queen Victoria, requesting her patronage in the form of money, as he had of the Indian Rajahs. He witnessed the siege of the Sepoy Mutiny as a bystander, which is a frequent stance in his poetry. He is not a mystic, though his couplets (a ghazal is a series of couplets connected thematically but not as a narrative thread) refer to Allah as a neighbor, since he lives near a mosque. He also has a bittersweet relation to Allah, the Beloved, bemoaning the Beloved's neglect or spurning of him. He described himself as half-Muslim; he drank alcohol, but he did not eat pork. He was the acknowledged master of the two-liner (couplet); the translation, by Sasha Newborn, strives to capture the sense and a bit of the nuances, rather than rhyme and rhythm.