Mirza Ghalib celebrated, even as his Agra birthplace lies forgotten | ummid.com

Mirza Ghalib celebrated, even as his Agra birthplace lies forgotten | ummid.com
Ghalib is to Urdu literature what Shakespeare is to English. Born in 1797 in Agra, once the capital of Mughal rulers, he moved as a teenager to Delhi, where his poetic talent blossomed in the court of Bahadur Shah Zafar, Mughal emperor at the time.