When Rumi and Ghalib met
(The following passage is from the book ‘Dozkhnama’ by Rabisankar Bal. An imaginative meeting of Ghalib and Mevlana Rumi) There come certain times of misfortune in the world, when poetry dies. I seemed to be keeping a vigil by the grave of the ghazal, counting the hours. I could think of nothing but the time when death would come to take me beyond this worldly life. Entire nights would pass in wakefulness. One day I saw a shadowy figure standing in my cell. Who was he? How ha