Mir Taqi Mir, Great Urdu Poet
The comparison of Mir Taqi Mir with Mirza Ghalib reminds me of the debate on Christopher Marlowe vs Shakespeare. As a matter of fact, Mirza Ghalib himself says that Mir Taqi Mir is really great. He wrote a couplet about this: Reekhta kay tumhi ustaad nahi ho Ghalib Kehte hain agle zamane me koi Mir bhi tha You are not the only master of poetry, Ghalib They say there used to be a Mir in the past Known as Khuda-e-Sukhan'(God of poetry), Mir Taqi Mir was born in Agra in 1723 and died in 1810 in Lucknow. This year marked the 200th death anniversary of Mir. He moved to Delhi at the age of 11 after his father's death. When the prestige of the Mughal Empire began to wane and chaos began to reign supreme due to the constant invasions from the foreign powers including Ahmad Shah Abdali, Mir moved to the court of Asaf-ud-Daula Nawab of Oudh in Lucknow. In 1782 Mir came to Lucknow, where he breathed his last on September 21, 1810. One of Mir’s ghazals, `Dikhaai diye yun ke bekhud kiya, h