He then adopted ‘Ghalib’, which essentially means someone who overwhelms you, and, among other things, victorious, triumphant and predominant, someone who surpasses all or is unsurpassed. Let us bear in mind that Mirza Asadullah Khan ‘Ghalib’ dropped his early signature, ‘Asad’, when another contemporary poet was found using the same taḵẖalluṣ (signature). Even the grand effort to establish them for the fakes they are may be regarded as acknowledgments of their worth. Such exercises in fakery sometimes find modest success-they are often committed to public memory and have elicited commentaries despite the bluff being called. Seems some of Mirza Ghalib’s admirers have, a few times, committed the sacrilege of inserting their own couplets into his ‘holy’ Dīvān, his collected poems, exactingly overseen by the master. What is the best two-liner that you know?Īnd now a hearty annotation for these two lines.
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