A page from Ghalib's letters (in his hand)

 A page from Ghalib's letters (in his hand)

Mirza Ghalib was a gifted letter writer. Besides Urdu poetry, the prose is also indebted to Mirza Ghalib. His letters gave foundation to easy and popular Urdu. Before Ghalib, letter writing in Urdu was highly ornamental. He made his letters "talk" by using words and sentences as if he were conversing with the reader. According to Ghalib:..Wikipedia