Everything That Kills Me Makes Me Feel Alive — Ghalib & the Art of Going Unprepared
What do Mirza Ghalib and OneRepublic have in common? More than you'd think.
OneRepublic sang "everything that kills me makes me feel alive" — Ghalib wrote the same feeling two centuries earlier. When streams can't find their path, they rise. When the poet's nature is blocked, it flows even stronger.
In this episode, Kshitij and Burair unpack one of Ghalib's most quietly radical couplets — and ask whether going in unprepared is actually the best test of what you truly know. Plus: Kshitij's story of showing up 4 hours late to an interview and still getting the job.
Urdu poetry for the diaspora…
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