This forgotten corner embodies Ghalib’s timeless love affair with the city. It is this love for the city and its life that has pushed writer Shirin Mehrotra, a resident of Chittaranjan Park to ...

Farooqi used a different yardstick. Focusing on the ancient city of Banaras and the poet’s inscrutable love for the place, Farooqi writes, quoting Ghalib, “Banaras is beyond words. Such cities ...