Ghalib led a miserable life for he started taking wine at a very young age when he was just a boy whereas his financial condition was not good moreover he had no children of his own. Ghalib was also a poetry teacher of the King, Bahadur Sha Zafar, who himself was a very nice poet. Despite this income, Ghalib remained nearly destitute for most of his life. In 1826, on the death of Ghalib’s uncle, the British government began providing Ghalib and his family with a small pension for the military services of his uncle. soon after the publication of his Urdu poetry collection Ghalib switched to writing entirely in Persian, also known as Farsi. Deewan e Ghalib, Nuskha e Hamida was Published in 1828. In 1821 he compiled his first collection of Urdu verse. Ghalib was introduced to the elite circle of intellectuals and artists that surrounded the Indian royal family in Delhi because of his father in law. It got married in 1810 to Umrao Begum, the niece of Nawab Ahmad Baksh Khan who was the ruler of Ferozepur and Loharu at that time. Ghalib had no formal education, but was tutored in Persian by Muhammad Mu’azzam, a noted scholar of the time. Ghalib was born in Agra, in northern India, and was raised by his uncle. In a ghazal, each couplet is self-contained and generally unconnected with the next. He is best known for his lyrical and spiritual ghazals. Mirza Ghalib, full name Mirza Asadullah Khan Beig, pen name ‘Ghalib’ (1797-1869) was a famous Urdu- and Persian-language poet of India.
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