Classical Urdu and Persian poet Mirza Asadullah Baig is being remembered today (Friday) on his death anniversary.
Mirza Asadullah Baig, pen-name Ghalib was born on 27 December 1796 in the city of Akbarabad (present Agra) was an all time great classical Urdu and Persian poet of the Indian subcontinent.
Most notably, he wrote several ghazals during his life, which have since been interpreted and sung in many different ways by different people. He is considered to be the most dominating poet of the Urdu language. After the death of his father and uncle during his early youth left Ghalib moved to Delhi.
He led a drastic revolution in Urdu poetry with his words. He was a classical Urdu and Persian poet from India during British colonial rule. In South Asia he was considered to be one of the most popular and dominant poet of Urdu in past but he has equal popularity at present also.
Still today Ghalib is popular between Urdu people not only in India and Pakistan but also in Diaspora communities around the world. Ghalib felt so much proud on his Persian poetry but his Urdu poetry like “Ghazals” are also much famous today.
He always lived from hand to mouth due to lack of money and after 1857 his support from Royal durbar stopped. He was suspected of supporting agitators so his pension from British government was ceased.
