"IT IS SAID THAT URDU POETRY ENDS ON GHALIB. GHALIB WAS THE KING OF CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION. GHALIB HAS UNDERSTOOD THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE AND EXPRESSED THEM IN HIS POETRY. GHALIB WAS A FLEETING POET BUT HIS EPHEMERALITY IS BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF NATION AND TIME. ALONG WITH THE POETRY, HIS LETTER ARE LIKE AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF AN ORDINARY MAN. ONE AND A HALF HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY, HOW A CERTAIN MAN LIVED HIS LIFE, WHAT WERE HIS MOVEMENTS, HOPES-ASPIRATIONS, SUCCESS-FAILURES, FALSE PROMISES, TROUBLES AND OPPOSING WINDS THAT TOOK HIM BY THE THROAT,HOW HE BEHAVED AS A HUSBAND AND A LOVER, AS A FRIEND, HIS KNOWLEDGE OF WORDS, KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE, ALL THESE ARE WHAT WE GET TO SEE IN HIS LETTERS. IN THE PRESENT BOOK, AS GHALIB SAID ABOUT HIMSELF “KAHETE HAIN KE, GHALIB KA HAI ANDAZ BAYAN AUR”, ACCORDINGLY THE AUTHOR PRESENTS THE LIFE STORY OF GHALIB IN A SPECIFIC STYLE, WHILE READING THE BOOK, THE READER FEELS AS IF GHALIB IS SITTING ON A CHAIR IN FRONT OF THEM AND NARRATING HIS STORY.