This selection of poetry and prose by Ghalib provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Urdu poet of the nineteenth century. Ghalib'

Amit Basole teaches Economics at Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Urdu poetry as well as history and architecture of the Indian subcontinent are his passions.

Mirza Ghalib is to the Urdu language what William Shakespeare is to the English language. And the most widely read Urdu book in the world is a collection of the

In The Lightning Should Have Fallen On Ghalib: Selected Poems Of Ghalib poet Robert Bly and Urdu scholar Sunil Dutta endeavour to bring the intensity and finess