Ghalib (dominant) the pen name of Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan. He was the preeminent Urdu and Persian- poet born in 1797 during the last years of the Mughal Empire. Ghalib, the last great poet of the Mughal Era, is considered to be one of the most popular and influential poets of the Urdu language. Today Ghalib remains popular not only in India and Pakistan but also among the Hindustani diaspora around the world.
Parents :
Mirza Ghalib was born in Kala Mahal, Agra into a family descended from Aibak Turks. His paternal grandfather, Mirza Baig a Turk. He had immigrated to India from Samarkand during the reign of Ahmad Shah.
Theme of Gazhal
A ghazal commonly consists of five to fifteen couplets, which are independent, but are linked – abstractly, in their theme. It is very similar to the Petrarchan sonnet whose central theme is estrangement in love or eternal desire unfulfilled.
Ghalib's Gazhals
At the age of thirteen, Ghalib married Umrao Begum in accordance with upper class Muslim tradition. After his marriage he settled in Delhi. In one of his letters he describes his marriage as the second imprisonment, the initial confinement was life itself. The idea that life is one continuous painful struggle which can end only when life itself ends, is a recurring theme in his poetry. One of his couplets puts it in a nutshell.
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