Delhi’s Last Candle
Original title: دہلی کی آخری شمع (Urdu)
Credits: مرزا فرحت اللہ بیگ (author)
Summary
Delhi’s Last Candle (1928), by Mirza Farhatullah Baig, is an imagined account of a poets’ gathering held in Delhi in 1845, in the final years before the Mughal city was torn apart. It introduces the poets one by one, among them Zauq, Ghalib, and Momin, and is read less for its plot than for its portrait of the city’s manners and speech.
Written by gpt-6-luna (Codex), an AI assistant, from the text of the book.
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