The Treasure

Mirza Ghalib, Indias Most Loved Poet, Lived At ATime Of Great Political And Cultural Transformation When The Established Order, The Mighty Mughal Empire, Was Falling Apart Around Midnineteenth Century And The New Regime Spearheaded By The East India Company Was Not Yet Fully In PlaceThere Are Multiple Lenses That Can Be Used To Look At Ghalibs WorkAt The Surface, He Is ARomantic Poet Par ExcellenceBut If We Dig Deeper, Ghalib Is Much More Than ARomantic PoetHe Expressed Ideas That Came From Conflicting Philosophical Traditions, Namely The Concept Of Shunyata nonexistence That Is ACore Belief In Buddhist Philosophy And The Concept Of Maya That Is At The Center Of Vedantic PhilosophyThis Book Contains Lyrical Free Verse English Translation Of Ghazals Contained In Ghalibs Urdu Divan, Popularly Known As Divane GhalibOne Reason That Makes The Second Revised And Expanded Edition Of The Book Unique And Extremely Valuable Is The Addition Of Original Urdu Text In An Easytoread Romanized FormatAccording To Distinguished Literary Critic And Leading Ghalib Scholar Professor Gopi Chand Narang, Ghalib Was Never So Close To The Reader As He Is Now With This WorkSurinder Has Succeeded In His Creative Transformation Of Mirzas Ghazals Into Poetic English Where Others Have Failed.
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