Were I to fall ill, there will be no one to tend meĪnd when I die, no one to mourn me) From Bharat Bhushan to Naseeruddin Shah to Tom Alter, Ghalib has been played by doyens of popular culture. (But) There won’t be any neighbours, nor anyone to guard it I will make something that is like a house No one who speaks to me in my language, no one to talk to (Let us go and live somewhere where there is no one His willingness to wrestle with modern doubts in his writing have caused some to call him an atheist, while his mystical love poetry makes him a favorite of Sufis.Rahiye ab aisi jagah chal kar jahan koi na hoĪur agar mar jaiye to nauha-khwaan koi na ho His poetry spoke to Muslims and Hindus alike. He wrote at the end of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of British rule in India. He was a court poet who often wrote in the courtly language of Persian, but he is best known for his couplets written in the popular local tongue of Urdu. He was of Turkish descent, but an Indian poet. He is called the last of India's classical poets, and the first of the moderns. Ghalib's life bridged several cultures, traditions, languages, and social strata. These terrible sorrows seem to have inspired his interior exploration, through doubts and grief, but also to moments of profound clarity and artistic beauty. Ghalib was married at a young age, apparently not a happy marriage, and all seven of his children died in infancy. Ghalib's father was killed in battle when Ghalib was just a boy he was subsequently raised by his uncle and other distant relatives. His family became a military family, his grandfather, father and uncles all serving as officers in the Indian army. His grandfather then moved to India in the late 1700s. Mirza Ghalib was born in Agra to a Turkish family that had originally relocated to Samarkand to avoid political upheaval in Turkey. He was court poet to the last Mughal Emperor in Delhi. Ghalib was the pen name of Mirza Asad Ullah Khan.
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