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| The grave of Mirza Asadullah Khan 'Ghalib,'
(1797-1869) is located north of the enclosure of Chaunsath Khamba,
close to the Nizamuddin shrine in Nizamuddin West. Mirza Ghalib,
as he is popularly known, is considered the Urdu Shakespeare
and was the greatest poet of the nineteenth century. He was
a great writer of ghazals, the lyrical love poems of Urdu. He
was a friend of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah 'Zafar' and
was appointed the teacher of Bahadur Shah II. Mirza Ghalib's
grave is covered by a marble structure and is within a small
courtyard, which is always locked. The little cemetery has a
few more graves set around the grave of the great poet and is
located next to the large Ghalib Academy. The Ghalib Academy
was established by the government and has an extensive library
of Urdu Literature. It also houses a well-maintained museum.
The museum has a large collection of rocks, paintings and works
of the great poet, who described Delhi as 'the Soul of the World'.
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| Visitors can enter the tomb from the lanes of
the Nizamuddin village. It is not mandatory to pay any money
to the families living just before the tomb but you can still
get their good wishes and some relevant information by giving
them some baksheesh. |
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