Stories written by
Mir Taqi Mir
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‘Tired of living and angry with death’: Mir Taqi Mir’s Urdu verses from the Murty Classical Library
An excerpt from ‘Selected Ghazals and Other Poems’, by Mir Taqi Mir. Translated from the Urdu by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi.
Mir Taqi Mir & Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
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Cats: Ghazal writers Mir and Ghalib composed these poems about the animal that rules social media
Mir wrote of ‘a cat called Mohini’, and Ghalib, of his ‘noble-tempered’ pet. These poems are translated by Prashant Keshavmurthy.
Mir Taqi Mir, Mirza Ghalib & Prashant Keshavmurthy