When the sky plays chess, you, me, we’re all chessmen. Like every beginner, it enjoys breaking the pieces. Poets, like sovereigns, can suffer under the grandiloquent titles thrust upon them by their ...
‘The Hidden Garden’ brings us Mir Taqi Mir’s life, poetry and genius bundled into a single biography
Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (1723-1810) is a major Urdu poet with a vast corpus of poetry consisting of more than thirteen thousand couplets. Mainly a ghazal poet, his expertise at other subgenres of poetry ...
Highlighting the nuances of the Urdu poet’s verse, Hoskote renders them relevant to a new generation
The Homeland’s an Ocean presents a meticulously curated selection of 150 couplets from Mir Taqi Mir, one of Urdu’s most revered poets. Translated by Ranjit Hoskote, this collection, enriched by a ...
The Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu Hind organized the exhibition in collaboration with the Urdu Ghar and the Noor Microfilm Center from January 11 to 17. The opening ceremony of the exhibition was attended by ...
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 “Urdu’s first ...
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 ...
Mir achieved great literary success between 1741 and 1782. His first divan was composed in the early 1750s and the first draft of his autobiography, Zikr-i Mir, in Persian in 1773 An illustration of ...
Whenever lyricists of Bollywood or Lollywood seemed stuck for the beginning of a song, they could always turn to Mir. One of his most famous ghazals 'Patta patta boota boota haal hamare jaane hain' ...
A two-day international seminar was organised by the department of Urdu, Aligarh Muslim University here at AMU on Saturday and Sunday to mark the 300th birth anniversary of renowned Urdu poet, Mir ...
Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali, during his visit to Lucknow for the Metaphor Lucknow LitFest, paid tributes at the grave of poet Mir Taqi Mir and emphasised the importance of celebrating such iconic figures.
On his deathbed, Mir Mutaqqi, a practising sufi, summoned his two sons, Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810), and Mir’s stepbrother Muhammad Hasan. He told the boys he had nothing for them but unpaid debts and ...
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