دہلی کی آخری شمع
By مرزا فرحت اللہ بیگ
Cover: The Delhi Darbar of Akbar II (about 1811), opaque watercolour on paper by Ghulam Murtaza Khan (attributed, active early 19th century) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (Company School painting of about 1811)
Mirza Farhatullah Baig's Delhi's Last Candle (1928) is an imagined report of a poets' gathering held in Delhi in 1845, in the last years before the Mughal city was broken up. It introduces the poets one by one, among them Zauq, Ghalib and Momin, and is read for its picture of the city's manners and speech rather than for a plot.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.