Karachi: Mirza Asad Ullah Ghalib’s 153rd death anniversary is being observed today.
The stalwart of Urdu literature gave a new modalities in the Urdu poetry, The Urdu poetry with a unique style, a varieties of topics gave Mirza Ghalib a destination that a few poets enjoyed.
Mirza Ghalib original name was Asad Ullah Baig and his father name was Abdullah Baig. Ghalib was born in December 27, 1797 at Agra.
Ghalib turned orphan in his childhood while his uncle Mirza Nasar Ullah Baig brought him up. But at the age of eight, his uncle also died.
Nawab Ahmed Bakhsh Khan fixed the stipend of Mirza’s family from the British government.
In 1810, in the age of 13 he got married to daughter of Mirza Elahi Bakhsh Khan, Umra Begum. Mirza Elahi Bakhsh Khan was younger brother of Nawab Ahmed Bakhsh.
After the marriage, he bid adieu to his home town and shifted to Delhi for permanent basis.
The expenses of Mirza Ghalib increased after the marriage and he indebted and he faced financial difficulties and his loans were further increased.
Finally he adopted employment in fort compelling to his financial woes.
At the start of his poetry, he did poetry in Persian and Urdu with a difficult language and Asad was his pen name at that time.
However, owing to sarcastic taunts of poets of that era, he changed the direction of his poetry and presented his poetry with easy language , thoughtfulness, philosophic style that no any poet found with his caliber.
Mirza Ghalib is considered as one of the most popular and influential poets of Urdu language in South Asia.
He wrote hundreds of Ghazals during his life time, which have been interpreted and sung in many different ways by different people.
Mirza Ghalib began composing verses at the early age of 10 or 12, and had written many of his best known ghazals by the time he was 19.
He died on this day at the age of 71 in New Delhi in 1869.
