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Rekhta: Major figures; Amir Khusrau (father of Urdu literature) - Wali Dakhani (father of Urdu poetry) - Mir Taqi Mir - Ghalib - Abdul Haq (Baba-e-Urdu) - Muhammad Iqbal: Urdu writers; Writers – Novelists – Poets: Forms; Ghazal - Dastangoi - Nazm – Fiction: Institutions; Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu Urdu movement Literary Prizes: Related ...
He wrote in Persian and Rekhta (initial form of Urdu). Mirza Ghalib is considered one of the leading literary authority on Urdu poetry. [3] He lived in Delhi [4] and died in 1869. The literal meaning of shayar (shaa'ir) is poet. [5] There are more than 30 types of Urdu poetry, also known as shayari.
Clothes of Mirza Ghalib, at Ghalib Museum, New Delhi A special commemorative cover of Ghalib released in India. The statue of Mirza Ghalib at Ghalib ki Haveli. Mirza Ghalib was born on 27 December 1797 in Kala Mahal, Agra [5] into a family of Mughals who moved to Samarkand (in modern-day Uzbekistan) after the downfall of the Seljuk kings.
Diwan-e-Ghalib is a poetry book written by the India born Persian and also Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib.It is a collection of the ghazals of Ghalib. [1] Though it does not include all of his ghazals as he was too choosy to include them all, still in many other copies of the Diwan Urdu scholars have tried to collect all of his precious works.
Rekhta is an Indian web portal started by Rekhta Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Urdu literature. [4] The Rekhta Library Project, its books preservation initiative, has successfully digitized approximately 200,000 books over a span of ten years. [ 5 ]
The title is taken from a poem by Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib. It went to 12 film festivals in 6 months in various locations including Turkey , Estonia , River to River ( Florence ), Berlin , Edinburgh , Washington , Goa , Bite The Mango (Bradford), Commonwealth ( Manchester ), India ( Los Angeles ), Dallas , and Pacific Rim ( California ).
Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language.While it tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ghazal (غزل) and nazm (نظم), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana (افسانہ).
Mirza Ghalib's Haveli is located in the Old Delhi and is a heritage site declared by Archaeological Survey of India. It offers an insight into the Mirza Ghalib's lifestyle and architecture of the Mughal era. [8] The large compound of the haveli with columns and bricks are the reminiscence of the Mughal Empire in Delhi.