Zafar is so unfortunate that he could not even get two yards of ground in the lane of his beloved for his burial.

This iconic couplet captures the sheer ache of exile and homesickness. Writing from distant Rangoon, the last Mughal emperor Zafar uses 'koo-e-yaar' (the beloved's lane) as a tender metaphor for his cherished homeland, Delhi. There is profound pathos in seeing a monarch who once ruled an empire mourn that he cannot even claim two humble yards of his own soil for a grave.