One of the best and prominent Muslim poets of the Indo-Pak Sub-Continent, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, was born in 1796 at Agra. His father Abdullah Beg Khan and uncle Nasrullah Beg Khan were in the army. Ghalib once said that Mulla Abdus Samad Harmuzd was his tutor at Agra. Some writers opine that the tutor is just a myth. He received classical Mughal education at Agra with Persian being one of the chief subjects.If so, then amazingly he seems to be a born genius as there is, indeed, vast knowledge of history, human psychology, ethics and philosophy which is reflected in works of Ghalib’s prose and poetry. Ghalib started writing poetry at an early age — the exact year is not known. Most part of his life, he lived in Delhi with short interludes of two years, which he spent in Calcutta (1830-32). His life earnings consisted of stipends granted to him by the Nawab of Oudh in recognition of his talents, and later on by the court of Delhi. Ghalib’s personal life was not a prim rose path. He lost his father at an early age of 5. The major part of life he lived from hand to mouth and his seven sons died in infancy. Therefore, his life was quiet and colorless. In 1810, he married an autocratic lady and moved to Delhi.This train of events had deep impact on his writings. His attitude towards religion was cavalier and his tolerant attitude in this regard can be found in his intimate letters to Munshi Hargopal Tufta, and in the various similes, metaphors in his poetry. - See more at: http://storyofpakistan.com/mirza-asadullah-khan-ghalib/#sthash.7XbHjiGG.dpuf

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