It is considered to be the first authentic work on Ghalib's life, personality, poetry and prose.
[2] In the first part of the book, covering about a hundred pages, Hali has given whatever he could gather as regards the life of Ghalib.
In the second part of the book, Hali has evaluated Ghalib as an author, as a poet of Urdu and Persian and as a prose writer.
[3] Hali's general approach to Ghalib's poetry and personality borders on defence, glossing over the poet's personal shortcomings and providing relief by a perceptive analysis and interpretation of his poems.
[4] Universally regarded as a classic,[5] Yadgar-e-Ghalib is considered to be the first authentic work on Ghalib's life, personality, poetry and prose.