SOURCE: "The Ghazal Itself: Translating Ghalib," in The Yale Journal of Criticism, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1992, pp. 219-32.
In the following essay, Nairn discusses five couplets belonging to a ghazal Ghalib wrote before he was nineteen, providing both the transcripted Urdu and free prose translation. The ghazal is considered a typical Ghalibean one and, in the earliest manuscript, an autograph.
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