Sometimes there comes a phase in life when pain wants to come out in the form of humming. Getting trapped in it, going to the game and going to the game become one! These ghazals are actually the gift of such an era! Here let me clarify that the ghazal was not revealed to me! I have been listening and liking it for the last twenty-five years and I have even tried my hand at it secretly! But a curiosity behind writing or saying ghazals has often troubled me and that is how Mirza Ghalib, the most profoundly experienced poet among Indian poets, expressed his pain.