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Banker by day, poet by night [India]:

During the day he works at the Lucknow Urban Co Operative Bank of which he is the deputy manager. At night, he is busy increasing his 'intellectual capital' bank. His eyes light up when he is successful giving wings to his thoughts.

Yet, despite thousands of Urdu couplets and two hugely impressive works on poetry, he says he doesn’t know "the Urdu script still." This, despite the fact that his poems have been appreciated by Pakistan's leading poet, Amjad Ali Amjad, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and famous singer Anoop Jalota among a host of others. He is Bharat Bhushan Pant, a poet par excellence. [...]

This article about Pant is pants, but maybe you're interested in Ghalib's ghazals?

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