Mir Taqi Mir (1722-1810), known by the mononym ‘Mir’, remains a towering figure in Urdu literature and distinguished scholar Gopi Chand Narang, who passed away on June 15, considers him ...

‘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 Taqi Mir. Mir’s comprehensive English translations, Selected Ghazals and Other Poems as well as Ghazals: Translations of Classic Urdu Poetry, published under the Murty Classical Library ...

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 ...

What Mir concealed in Zikr-e Mir, he revealed in two short masnavis (poems), after he had moved to ... Excerpted with permission from The Hidden Garden: Mir Taqi Mir, Gopi Chand Narang, translated ...

Mir Muhammad Taqi, known as Mir Taqi Mir ... ghazal and is often remembered as one of the best poets of the Urdu language. The signature of his poetry is the grief he expresses. He has expressed a lot ...

The Homeland’s an Ocean presents a meticulously curated selection of 150 couplets from Mir Taqi Mir, one of Urdu ... life and times of an 18th-century poet who lived through one of the ...

what are the elements that make literature or poetry great”, wrote Prof Dr Tehseen Firaqi in his intro to a compendium of important critical essays on Mir Taqi Mir’s art. The question that ...

Canonised as one of Urdu’s greatest poets, Mir Muhammad Taqi “Mir” of Delhi ... Among these is the masnavi, a narrative poem of indeterminate length but in in a uniform meter and with ...

Even as cultural festivals earlier this month celebrated Mir Taqi Mir’s tercentenary, a look at why, unlike Ghalib and Iqbal, this 18th century Urdu poet, so closely connected with Delhi, has ...

Sourced by the Telegraph. The great Urdu poet of the eighteenth century, Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir, was born in February in Agra in 1723/24. He was so accomplished that he was known as Khuda-i Sukhan (the ...

Delhi's streets were not alleys but an artist's canvas,' the eminent poet Mir Taqi Mir noted more than 150 years ago. Syed Firdaus Ashraf savours the sights and cuisine of the national capital.