Birthday poet by numbers
Hindustan Times
|December 27, 2025
On Mirza Ghalib’s anniversary
Today is actor Salman Khan's birthday. It is also actor Timothée Chalamet’s birthday. It is also the birth anniversary of Delhi's greatest poet. We exploit this day to celebrate our Mirza Ghalib exclusively through numbers. The accompanying photo was snapped some afternoons ago, just as internationally renowned photographer Nicholas Vreeland (also a Buddhist monk) was sighted visiting Ghalib’s marble tomb in central Delhi. Plus, a shoutout to Ghalib Academy secretary Aqil Ahmad, kind enough to double-check some of these figures.
27/12/1797: Date of Ghalib’s birth. He was born in Agra.
1: Number of Mughal emperors in whose court Ghalib was most memorably associated as a poet. The emperor at the time was Bahadur Shah Zafar, himself a poet. Ghalib was a great rival of poet Zaug, believed to be the Emperor's favourite.
2: Languages in which Ghalib wrote—Persian and Urdu.
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