Imagine it’s raining cats and dogs The hilly river has let the hair loose
Eternity collapses at the wheel of change. / Past is lost
In my deep sleep, you came, my love—
A review of ‘Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras’ (India Penguin Classics, 2023) by Mirza Ghalib, translated by Maaz Bin Bilal
Imagine it’s raining cats and dogs The hilly river has let the hair loose
Eternity collapses at the wheel of change. / Past is lost
In my deep sleep, you came, my love—
A review of ‘Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras’ (India Penguin Classics, 2023) by Mirza Ghalib, translated by Maaz Bin Bilal