Urdu Poetry / Shayari

Dabeer-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-daulah Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan was the great classical Urdu and Persian poet, he spread his fragrance of love, thoughts and depth later in the decades of British colonial rule. In his life time Ghalib wrote several ghazal’s and those ghazals are liked, loved and sing by the different people by different style. Mirza Ghalib is considered to be the most famous and influential poet of the Urdu Jagat. The popularity of Ghalib is not consolidated to India and Pakistan only but he is renowned across the world. His Ghazals are placed as most difficult and considered to be placed at the depth of Urdu literature He was a person who worked regardless of day to day livelihood, he spend life either on patronage, credit or generosity of his friends. Ghalib wrote his ghazals in Persian as well as in Urdu but his Urdu ghazals were much more popular. It is believed that he started his writing work earlier at the age of 19. As his ghazals were comprised of highly Persianised Urdu, it was hard for vast majority of people to understand his urdu ghazlas without extra efforts. Read the rest of this entry »