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In the world of Urdu literature, countless poets have come and gone, and many more will continue to appear, but the sky of time has rarely witnessed a poet like Ghalib. Ghalib was fully aware of his ...

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And yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of duty, the sabres of doom.Gathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian ...

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