Mirza Ghalib, the most popular among urdu poets, has enjoyed a large fan following although his poems contain many words of Persian origin making his work a bit difficult to understand. Quite a few famous critics and poets have written books containing explanatory notes on Mirza Ghalib’s poems. These books are more than sufficient to understand his works. However, explanatory notes fall short of capturing the rhyme and rhythm of the original. The Author has attempted to present the sentiments of the original urdu poem in Hindi poetry form.
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Book Details
Publication Year
2018 October
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Author Info
The Author served Indian Railways for 37 years and retired as Chief Mechanical Engineer. He was closely associated with the propagation of Rajbhasha (Hindi) in the Railways. He won a prize in the All India Poetry Translation Competition organised by the Sahitya Academy in the year 2007, for his English translation of one of Allama Iqbal’s urdu poems.
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5.5
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8.5
Weight
328
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A must read book for Urdu poetry lovers who find it difficult to understand true essence of poetry due to the language. The author of Mirza Ghalib - shaksiyat aur shayari has wonderfully captured the essence of Urdu poetry in Hindi, our mother tongue.