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    Confluence not Erasure: The Church of El Salvador in Toledo, Spain

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    Mezquita/Cathedral del Cristo de la Luz – Where Architecture Tells a Tale

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    The Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca In Toledo, Spain—often called the “City of Three Cultures”

    The Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca In Toledo, Spain—often called the “City of Three Cultures”

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      Confluence not Erasure: The Church of El Salvador in Toledo, Spain

      Confluence not Erasure: The Church of El Salvador in Toledo, Spain

      Mezquita/Cathedral del Cristo de la Luz – Where Architecture Tells a Tale

      Mezquita/Cathedral del Cristo de la Luz – Where Architecture Tells a Tale

      The Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca In Toledo, Spain—often called the “City of Three Cultures”

      The Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca In Toledo, Spain—often called the “City of Three Cultures”

      East Side Gallery, Berlin

      Neptune Fountain in Berlin

      Neptune Fountain in Berlin

      Aligarh’s Jama Masjid

      Aligarh’s Jama Masjid

      Darbar of Guru Ram Rai in Dehradun

      Darbar of Guru Ram Rai in Dehradun

      Lord Buddha’s sermon in Kausambi, Allahabad and the Fortress

      Lord Buddha’s sermon in Kausambi, Allahabad and the Fortress

      Abu Serga Church, Cairo

      Abu Serga Church, Cairo

      The Exquisite Badal Mahal in Bundi Part 1

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      Jhanjhiri Mosque in Jaunpur

      Jhanjhiri Mosque in Jaunpur

      Gurudwara Lekhensar Sahib‬ in Talwandi Sabo

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      Ulugh Beg’s Observatory in Samarqand, Uzbekistan

      Ulugh Beg’s Observatory in Samarqand, Uzbekistan

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      A Classical Nayika in Indian Paintings

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      Mirza Ghalib’s Tomb

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      The famous poet Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was born on 27 December 1797 and witnessed the first war of Indian independence and the end of the Mughal Empire.
      There are many stories about his life I share one here.
      He led a very hard life and
      was perpetually in debt and fought for his pension, but his wit remained intact. Writing about his pension, Mirza Ghalib said:

      “Miyan be-rizq jeene ka mujhko dhab aa gaya
      Iss taraf se khatir jamaa rakhna”
      Miyan I have got used to living in a state of penury.
      Be rest assured from my side.
      And
      “Ramzan ka maheena roze khaa khaa kar kataa. Khuda Razzaq hai, kuch aur khaane ko na mila to gham to hai!”
      In the month of Ramzan, I lived by fasting and God is Bounteous and if nothing else, at least there is sorrow.’

      He died on 15 February 1869 AD. He was buried near the Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya in the graveyard belonging to the Nawabs of Loharu to whom he was related to via his mother and wife’s family. It was a very simple grave ( image1) and only recognizable as the grave of a great poet because of the inscription on it:

      Ya Hayyo Yaa Qayyum
      Rashk e Urfi wa fakhr e talib murd
      Asadullah Khan Ghalib Murd
      Kal main gham o andoh mein ba khatir e mahzoon
      Tha turbat e Ustad pe baitha huwa ghamnaak
      Dekha to mujhe fikr mein tareekh ke, Majruh
      Hatif ne kaha ganj e ma’ni hai tah e khaak

      O Living, O Sustaining
      The envy of Urfi and the pride of Talib is dead
      Asadullah Khan Ghalib is dead
      Yesterday I was distraught and grieving
      I sat by the grave of my master,
      As Majruh was pondering over a chronogram,
      The guardian angel cried ‘beneath the dust is a treasure of meaning’
      However, he survived that illness and eventually died in 1869. The present chronogram was written by his student Mir Majruh

      The second photo is after AKTC built a pavilion over it.
      Excepted from: “The Forgotten Cities of Delhi: Book Two in the Where Stones Speak trilogy” by Rana Safvi.

      WhereStonesSpeak #forgottencitiesofdelhi #Ghalib #mirzaghalib #poet #mirmajruh #urdu #ghazal #Ghalibmazar #ghalibtomb

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