Gali Qasimjan Haveli

How Delhi forgot its best-known poet

Mirza Ghalib, the best-known of the Urdu poets of Delhi during last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar's rule, wrote: "Hum ne mana ke taghaful na karoge lekin/Khak ho jayenge hum tumko khabar hone tak! (You will not be indifferent, I know/ Nevertheless, dust I'll be by the time you get my news)."It can hardly be said that the poet's memory ha...