"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.
मिर्झा गालिब म्हणजे उर्दु शायरीतलं अजरामर नाव. मानवी भावभावनांना शब्दांचं कोंदण देणारा हा खरा युगकवी. त्याच्या कवितेइतकंच त्याच्या व्यक्तिमत्त्वाचं गारूड शायरीच्या चाहत्यांवर शेकडो वर्षे कायम आहे. शब्दांच्या श्रीमंतीसारखीच खानदानी श्रीमंतीही असलेला हा अवलिया, पण त्याच्या आयुष्यानं अशी वळणं घेतली की ती ही त्याच्या कवितेसारखीच भावविभोर ठरली. अशाच त्याच्या जीवनप्रवासातल्या खाचखळग्यांचा हा अनोखा प्रवास. स्वतः गालिबने जसा सांगितला असता, तसाच.