Letters of Ghalib

One of the greatest Urdu-Persian poets of all time, Ghalib was also a passionate and serious writer of letters.

[1] The distinguishing quality of Ghalib's epistolary practice was the energy and intimacy of conversational language that he could deploy with great finesse even in the written text of the letter.

The letters have served as crucial windows into the history of Delhi's destruction by the British forces in vengeance for the 1857 mutiny, besides giving insights into Ghalib's own poetic practice.

It was the end of the ashraf social section, captured in the shahrashob trope of his letters.

He wrote: "An ocean of blood churns around me- Alas!