MIRZA GHALIB SHAYARI HINDI

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Hindi shayari and ghazals of famous urdu shayar mirza ghalib.
Ghalib(Urdu: ,Hindi: ), bornMirza Asadullah Baig Khan(Urdu: ,Hindi: i), 26 June 1797 - 15 February 1869), was a prominent Urduand Persian-languagepoetduring the last years of theMughal Empire.
He used hispen-namesof Ghalib (Urdu: ,hlibmeans "dominant") andAsad(Urdu: ,Asadmeans "lion").
His honorific wasDabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula.
During his lifetime the Mughals were eclipsed and displaced by theBritishand finally deposed following the defeat of theIndian rebellion of 1857, events that he described.
Most notably, he wrote severalghazalsduring his life, which have since been interpreted and sung in many different ways by different people.
Ghalib, the last great poet of theMughal Era, is considered to be one of the most famous and influential poets of theUrdulanguage.
Today Ghalib remains popular not only inIndiaandPakistanbut also among theHindustani diasporaaround the world.
Mirza Ghalib was born in Kala Mahal,Agra into a family descended from AibakTurkswho moved toSamarkand(in modern-dayUzbekistan) after the downfall of theSeljukkings.
His paternal grandfather, Mirza Qoqan Baig Khan, was aSaljuq Turkwho had immigrated toIndiafromSamarkandduring the reign of Ahmad Shah (174854).He worked atLahore,DelhiandJaipur, was awarded the subdistrict ofPahasu(Bulandshahr, UP) and finally settled inAgra, UP,India.
He had four sons and three daughters.
Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan and Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan were two of his sons.
Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan (Ghalib's father) married Izzat-ut-Nisa Begum, an ethnicKashmiri, and then lived at the house of his father-in-law.
He was employed first by theNawabofLucknowand then theNizam of Hyderabad,Deccan.
He died in a battle in 1803 in Alwar and was buried at Rajgarh (Alwar, Rajasthan).Then Ghalib was a little over 5 years of age.
He was raised first by his Uncle Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan.
At the age of thirteen, Ghalib married Umrao Begum, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Bakhsh (brother of the Nawab of Ferozepur Jhirka).
He soon moved to Delhi, along with his younger brother, Mirza Yousuf Khan, who had developedschizophreniaat a young age and later died inDelhiduring the chaos of 1857.
In accordance with upper class Muslim tradition, he had an arranged marriage at the age of 13, but none of his seven children survived beyond infancy.
After his marriage he settled inDelhi.
In one of his letters he describes his marriage as the second imprisonment after the initial confinement that was life itself.
The idea that life is one continuous painful struggle which can end only when life itself ends, is a recurring theme in his poetry.
One of his couplets puts it in a nutshell:
Transliteration in Hindi
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Translation in English
The prison of life and the bondage of grief are one and the sameBefore the onset of death, why should man expect to be free of grief?
Mirza Ghalib's view of world as he sees world is like a playground where everyone is busy in some mundane activity and merrymaking rather than something of greater value as he wrote:
Transliteration in Hindi
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Translation in English
Just like a child's play this world appears to meEvery single night and day, this spectacle I see
At the age of thirty he had seven children, none of whom survived (this pain has found its echo in some of Ghalib'sghazals).
There are conflicting reports regarding his relationship with his wife.
She was considered to be pious, conservative and God-fearing.

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