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Mirza Beg Asadullah Khan (1797–1869), also known as Mirza Ghalib, was an Indian poet. He was popularly known by the pen names Ghalib and Asad. His honorific was Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula .
Born: December 27, 1797, Agra, India. Died: February 15, 1869, Delhi (aged 71) Mīrzā Asadullāh Khān Ghālib (born December 27, 1797, Agra, India—died February 15, 1869, Delhi) was the preeminent Indian poet of his time writing in Persian, equally renowned for poems, letters, and prose pieces in Urdu. Born into an aristocratic family ...
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He came of a family of distinguished Seljuqid Turks, and his ancestors occupied important positions in the armies of the Mughals and of the East India Company. He was born in Agra in 1797. His father Abdullah Beg Khan was killed in action when Ghalib was less than five years old.
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Dec 27, 2021 · Asadullah Beg Khan, popularly known by his pen name ‘Ghalib’, was born in Agra in December 1797 and had a Turko-Persian ancestry which he was very proud of. He was the second of three children, the eldest was a sister and the youngest was a brother. His father Mirza Abdullah Beg died when Ghalib was only five years old.
Translator’s Note: “No, I wasn’t meant to love and be loved” by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. By Vijay Seshadri. This is a translation of one of the most famous and widely anthologized ghazals of the Delhi poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797 - 1869), the last and—with Mir Taqi Mir (1722-1810)—the greatest of the classical Urdu poets.
Mirza Ghalib born Mirza Beg Asadullah Khan, pen-name Ghalib ġhālib means "dominant") and Asad Asad means "lion") (27 December 1796 — 15 February 1869), was a great classical Urdu and Persian poet of India. Most notably, he wrote several ghazals during his life, which have since been interpreted and sung in many different ways by different ...
Dec 27, 2017 · Mirza Ghalib, born on December 27, 1797, in Agra, was a well-known poet in the Persian and Urdu languages. Today, he remains one of the most popular and influential masters of the Urdu language ...
