Justification the title of the novel Twilight in Delhi.

The stars symbolize Asghar's romantic nature, specifically as it relates to his relationship with Bilqeece. Early on in the novel, he has a dream in which he is dancing amongst the stars; one is his former flame Mushtari Bai, but then another bigger and much brighter star is Bilqeece. Throughout the rest of the novel, staring at stars reminds Asghar of his love for Bilqeece. When Bilqeece finally expresses a tender and loving thought to Asghar, after a long period in which she had difficulty matching Asghar's romantic expectations of her, Asghar is overjoyed, embracing her, staring up the at the stars, and fantasizing about living with her in a house of their own. Later, when Bilqeece confronts Asghar about his increasingly cold attitude toward her, he stands in the courtyard, trying to avoid her, and looks at the stars, which now seem insipid when once he found them beautiful. A few moments later, however, Asghar takes pity on Bilqeece, and gives her reassurance that he still loves her. As Bilqeece becomes ill, Asghar mostly ignores or belittles her, until one night he goes to sit with her in bed and few stars are shining through the moon. When the Spanish flu occurs in 1918, the virus that eventually kills Bilqeece, it is noted that the sand covered the stars in the night sky, and when she dies, Asghar visits Bilqeece's grave and is filled with pain when he sees stars appearing in the sky.