It is said that Ghalib was much prouder of his works in Persian, but it is his Urdu poems that garnered him major fame. Ghazal maestros have kept his beautiful works alive While he did lead a comfortable life as an important courtier and a poetic tutor to the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar II fame as an immensely talented Urdu and Persian poet came to him only posthumously. And Mirza Ghalib, the eminent Urdu and Persian poet, who began composing poems at a tender age of 11, stated himself during his lifetime that he would be recognized for his contributions by the later generations, and he could not be more accurate on this one. However, in some cases, it seems as though it costs a creator’s death for the world to take notice and admire his contributions. Ghalib remarked that he would gain fame after death, and he was rightĪrtists, poets, writers, are beautiful and why shouldn’t they be? They spend their entire lifetime creating works that please souls, that touch souls. These are a couple of many haunting verses created by Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, known to the world by his pen name, Ghalib. “na tha kuchch to Khuda tha, kuchch na hota to Khuda hotaĭuboya mujhko honi ne, na hota main to kya hota?”
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