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Ruqa'at-e-Ghalib
Mirza Asad ullah khan Ghalib needs no introduction. During his life time he was fairly popular but he got the real fame a few decades after his death. Ghalib is mainly known for his poetry but Ghalib is also known for his letters in Urdu which he started writing in 1849 or perhaps a little earlier. There are four different collections, and scholars keep discovering new ones so their number is steadily increasing. Letter writing in Urdu before Ghalib was modelled on Persian. Ghalib discarded the artificial rhetoric of feudal politeness, aiming at the joy of communication, wrote in startingly simple, intimate and informal style. No man ever wrote more graceful and lucid Urdu. The witty turn of Ghalib’s genius gave every page of his letters an irresistible charm and abiding interest.
Published By:
Abdul Rehman Shoq
Published Date:
June 15, 2026
Pages:
61
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Other
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(9.25)
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Mirza Asad ullah khan Ghalib needs no introduction. During his life time he was fairly popular but he got the real fame a few decades after his death. Ghalib is mainly known for his poetry but Ghalib is also known for his letters in Urdu which he started writing in 1849 or perhaps a little earlier. There are four different collections, and scholars keep discovering new ones so their number is steadily increasing. Letter writing in Urdu before Ghalib was modelled on Persian. Ghalib discarded the artificial rhetoric of feudal politeness, aiming at the joy of communication, wrote in startingly simple, intimate and informal style. No man ever wrote more graceful and lucid Urdu. The witty turn of Ghalib’s genius gave every page of his letters an irresistible charm and abiding interest.
