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Mirza Ghalib, born on December 27, 1797, in Agra, was a well-known poet in the Persian and Urdu languages. 

Today, he remains one of the most popular and influential masters of the Urdu language; he is known simply as Ghalib.

He remains popular not only in India and Pakistan but also among the diaspora.

In his honour, Google is changing its doodle to one portraying him. This is his story:

Persian poet

• A prodigious poet. Mirza Ghalib started writing poetry at the age of 11. His verse is characterised by sadness, the result of an often tragic life. He was orphaned at an early age and lost all seven of his children in their infancy.

• The Conqueror. Born in Agra as Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, who later used pen name “Ghalib” (the conqueror), he migrated to New Delhi where he lived for the rest of his life.

• He struggled financially, never had a regular job and depended on patronage from royalty. 

• The poet had an arranged marriage at the age of 13, but none of his seven children survived beyond infancy, tragedies which ar
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  Ghalib

  Indian poet (1797–1869)

  "Mirza Ghalib" redirects here. For other pages with similar titles, see Mirza Ghalib (disambiguation). For other people, see Ghalib (name).

  Mirza Ghalib
  Ghalib in 1868
  Born	Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (1797-12-27)27 December 1797 Kala Mahal, Agra, Maratha Confederacy
  Died	15 February 1869(1869-02-15) (aged 71) Ghalib ki Haveli, Delhi, British India
  Resting place	Mazar-e-Mirza Ghalib Tomb, near Nizamuddin Dargah, Delhi
  Pen name	Ghalib, Asad
  Occupation
  Language	Urdu, Persian
  Period	Mughal era British era
  Genre
  Subject
  Literary movement	Urdu movement
  Years active	c. 1808–1869
  Notable work	Diwan-e-Ghalib
  Spouse	Umrao Begum ​ (m. 1810)​
  Parents	Mirza Abdullah Baig (father) Izzat-ut-Nisa Begum (mother)

  Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (27 December 1797 – 15 February 1869), commonly known as Mirza Ghalib,^[a] was an Indian poet.^[1] Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Urdu language, he also pro

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  Ghalib is the poetical surname of Asadullah Khan, the greatest poet of Urdu. He is the last of the great Delhi poets, and is the first of the great modern poets. He stands between two worlds. Trained in classical Persian and mystic philosophy, he also profited from the western influences and the spirit of Indian Renaissance. “He employed ‘heterogeneous ideas’ and ‘yoked them together with voilence’ like the English Metaphysical poets. He towers above the hundreds and hundreds of Urdu poets like a ‘victor’ (Ghalib), as his pseudonym means.

  Ghalib’s was a life of uninterrupted affliction, suffering and grief except for a brief period in his early youth. He came of a family of distinguished Seljuqid Turks, and his ancestors occupied important positions in the armies of the Mughals and of the East India Company. He was born in Agra in 1797. His father Abdullah Beg Khan was killed in action when Ghalib was less than five years old. After his father’s death, he was taken care of by his uncle Nasullah Beg Khan, but when Ghalib was ni