About the Poet: Mir Taqi "Mir" (d:1820) was born in Agra. He migrated to the Mughal capital of Delhi (Shahjahanabad) in his childhood and remained there till the depredations of Nadir Shah and Ahmed Shah Abdaali forced him to flee to Lucknow, where he spent the rest of his days. Like Ghalib, who followed him some decades later, Mir too had a deep love for Delhi. The separation from this beloved city of his, coupled with the deaths of his wife, son and daughter in quick succession, was responsible for the hauntingly sad poetry of Mir. Indeed, he is even today widely acknowledged to be the author of some of the finest verses of pathos.
Mir was the creator of Urdu poetry as we know it today. Remarkable for his use of simple Urdu words, his works are easily understood and retain their freshness even today. He was held in deep reverence by later shaayars and Ghalib himself commented that Mir was the original master of verse.
Patta patta boota boota (The buds and the leaves...)
haal hamara jaane hai (know of my misery!)
Jane na jane gul hi na jaane (Alas! Its only the flower that professes ignorance...)
baagh to saara jaane hai (while the whole garden is agog with tales of my pain)
Chaaragari bimaar ye dil ki (A remedy for this weak heart...)
Rasm-e-shahr-e-husn nahi (is not to be found in the city of beauty..)
Warna dilbar-e-nadaan bhi (Had it been so, even my ignorant dearest...)
is dard ka chaara jaane hai (could have calmed this agony of my self...)
The Doordarshan serial, Mirza Ghalib, had a charming rendition of this by Vinod Sehgal:
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