؎ اگ رہا ہے در و دیوار سے سبزہ غاؔلب
ہم بیاباں میں ہیں اور گھر میں بہار آئی ہے

“Ug raha hai dar o-diwar se sabzah, Ghalib Ham bayaban men hain aur ghar men bahar ai hai.”
“Greenery is growing out of the doors and walls, ‘Ghalib’! I am in wilderness and spring has arrived at my house.”

Ghalib ki Haveli was the residence of the 19th century Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib located in the Gali Qasim Jan, Ballimaran, Old Delhi and reflects the period when the Mughal era was on the decline in India.

Source: Muhammad Umair Mirza
The only surviving photograph of Mirza Ghalib (circa 1860-1869)

Ghalib lived in this Haveli for a long period of his life after he came from Agra. While staying at this Haveli, he wrote his Urdu and Persian ‘diwans’. Many a year after Ghalib’s death the place housed shops inside it until the year of 1999 after which the govt. acquired a portion of it and renovated it. It was given a special touch with the use of Mughal Lakhori bricks, sandstone & a wooden entrance gate to recreate the 19th century period.