Recent Posts Tagged With 'bahadur shah zafar'

• Ghalib's apologia--or 'ma'azeratnaama'

  Posted on Saturday October 13th, 2007 at 22:11 in ghalib, bahadur shah zafar

  It so happened that Bahadur Shah Zafar's favorite wife, Begum Zeenat Begum asked Ghalib to write a 'sehra' (a tribute, if you will,) for her son, Shehzada Mirza Jawan BaKhth's wedding. Complying with the Begum's wish, Ghalib wrote a 'sehra' whose ma...