| What was the most difficult read you've ever come across? | | The couples of books that I cam across which were pretty hard to gulp it down may because of its high Literature Language or numerous charcters thrown in it .or may be just something...To name a few would be Salman Rushdie's - Satanic VersesCollege Textbooks - it used to be a cure for insomnia[em]rolleyes[/em]...There were many but right now i am not able to recollect them .... | |
| | GHALIB - INTRODUCTION | | Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan -- known to posterity as Ghalib, a `nom de plume' he adopted in the tradition of all clasical Urdu poets, was born in the city of Agra, of parents with Turkish aristocratic ancestry, probably on December 27th, 1797. As to the precise date, Imtiyaz Ali Arshi has conjectured, on the basis of Ghalib's horoscope, that the poet might have been born a month later, in January 1798. Both his father and uncle died while he was still young, and he spent a good part of his early boyhood with his mother's family. This, of course, began a psychology of ambivalences for him. On the one hand, he grew up relatively free of any oppressive dominance by adult, male-dominant figures. This, it seems to me, accounts for at least some of the independent spirit he showed from very early child- hood. On the other hand, this placed him in the humiliating situation of being socially and economically dependent on maternal grandparents, giving him, one can surmise, a sense that whatever worldly goods he received were a matter of charity and... | |
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