Mir Taqi Mir
Mir Taqi Mir
Mir Muhammad Taqi, known as Mir Taqi Mir, was an Urdu poet of the 18th-century Mughal India and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of the Delhi School of the Urdu ghazal and is often remembered as one of the best poets of the Urdu language.
- The Homeland’s an OceanINR 399
‘Like the whirlpool, still centre of a giddy circling,
the homeland’s an ocean that scatters us in all directions.’ – Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810)Read More
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