Of great poets and cursed books
The curious case of literary censorship in Urdu with special emphasis on the oeuvre of Mir Taqi Mir, one of the greatest ...
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Mir Taqi Mir sidelined for too long. His manuscripts being archived now
New Delhi: Literature lovers, writers and researchers carefully turned the stained pages of 18th-century Mughal poet Mir Taqi Mir’s rare manuscripts, handwritten with black ink. The week-long ...
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Delhi poet Mir Taqi Mir called Lucknow ghazals mere descriptions of ‘kissing and licking’, not poetry
‘Far better than Lucknow the ruins of Delhi,’ mourned Mir Taqi Mir, the finest ghazal writer ... When the Lucknow cognoscenti asked Mir to recite his poetry for them, the scornful poet ...
Mir’s fame and the many frauds in his name
The Urdu Adab’s special issue on Mir Taqi Mir acknowledges a past mistake of censorship and rectifies it by publishing, for the first time, the complete unabridged text of ‘Zikr-i Mir’, the poet’s ...
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Mah e Mir
A modern poet Jamal who is against the traditional Urdu Poetry reads the biography of Mir Taqi Mir,one of the greatest poets of the 18th century. And sees Mir's reflection on his personality.