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Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, one of the greatest poets of India, sub-continent and the world, was born on December 27, 1797. Ghalib lived and witnessed the twilight of the Mughal period in the cultural history. Although he lived in Delhi where the language of his contemporaries was Urdu and he himself was a great Urdu poet, such was his love and adoration for Persian the language of his ancestors from Central Asia, that he wrote most of his poetry and prose in that language.
Ghalib was a true representative of the two layers of the central traditions of Muslim culture in the last phase of the Mughal period – the culture of the social elite with Persian as its literary language and the culture of the common city dwellers with Urdu as their language. Ghalib himself belonged to the social elite, and although he took great pride in his Persian poetry and prose, Urdu was his language, and he was considered the greatest. His Diwan-e-Ghalib is his only Diwan in Urdu.
Logically I can divide all the poets in two categories “Poet of hope” and “Poet of Doubts”
Galib falls in to the second category. His poetry reflects and speaks itself. He was not a lover by heart and he was not a poet by mind. “Ishq nahi Ghalib Khalal hain dimag ka” explains about the statement done. But still there is a difference in opinion in the experts.
It is a measure of Ghalib’s greatness that he has not only aroused the interest of the sophisticated literary elite, but also that of the common man who admires him and loves and quotes him whenever he can without perhaps having read or understood him thoroughly.
Ghalib had a strong personality and extra-ordinary creative gift nature had bestowed on him. Thus his urge to express himself in a manner distinctly was his own. He had the weight of tradition behind him and yet he stood out as an individual in his own right – interplay of tradition and individual talent. He added new shades of meanings to words. What he said is, of course, significant but equally significant was what he left unsaid.
Mirza Ghalib was a noble of Central Asian Turkish stock, a fact of which he was extremely proud. He was born in Agra and spent his childhood there in great comfort. It is said that he began to compose poetry at the age of ten. He came to Delhi after an early-arranged marriage, which was never very successful.
Ghalib suffered periods of ill health during the last eight years of his life and his memory began to fail. He took to his bed and died without recovering consciousness.
This is what I have found from my reading about Ghalib as a personality I could have given some wonderful couplets also for reference but don’t want to break the rule of copy rights.
Soon will find some things about Nida Fazli. On the same blog.
Stay tuned
Malhar
Ghalib was a true representative of the two layers of the central traditions of Muslim culture in the last phase of the Mughal period – the culture of the social elite with Persian as its literary language and the culture of the common city dwellers with Urdu as their language. Ghalib himself belonged to the social elite, and although he took great pride in his Persian poetry and prose, Urdu was his language, and he was considered the greatest. His Diwan-e-Ghalib is his only Diwan in Urdu.
Logically I can divide all the poets in two categories “Poet of hope” and “Poet of Doubts”
Galib falls in to the second category. His poetry reflects and speaks itself. He was not a lover by heart and he was not a poet by mind. “Ishq nahi Ghalib Khalal hain dimag ka” explains about the statement done. But still there is a difference in opinion in the experts.
It is a measure of Ghalib’s greatness that he has not only aroused the interest of the sophisticated literary elite, but also that of the common man who admires him and loves and quotes him whenever he can without perhaps having read or understood him thoroughly.
Ghalib had a strong personality and extra-ordinary creative gift nature had bestowed on him. Thus his urge to express himself in a manner distinctly was his own. He had the weight of tradition behind him and yet he stood out as an individual in his own right – interplay of tradition and individual talent. He added new shades of meanings to words. What he said is, of course, significant but equally significant was what he left unsaid.
Mirza Ghalib was a noble of Central Asian Turkish stock, a fact of which he was extremely proud. He was born in Agra and spent his childhood there in great comfort. It is said that he began to compose poetry at the age of ten. He came to Delhi after an early-arranged marriage, which was never very successful.
Ghalib suffered periods of ill health during the last eight years of his life and his memory began to fail. He took to his bed and died without recovering consciousness.
This is what I have found from my reading about Ghalib as a personality I could have given some wonderful couplets also for reference but don’t want to break the rule of copy rights.
Soon will find some things about Nida Fazli. On the same blog.
Stay tuned
Malhar
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