Mirza Ghalib Shayri or Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan was born on 27 December 1797 in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. Ghalib is said to have started writing Shayari at just 11 years old. Mirza became an Urdu and Persian poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. Today is his birthday. Come on, let’s read some of his selected poems –

He came to our house, God is nature!
Sometimes we see your house sometimes

Galib died but remembered
He was telling every single thing about what would happen

Thousands of desires are fulfilled
My greetings changed a lot, but even less

Clever! If your prayers have an effect, then shake the mosque,
If not, drink two sips and watch the mosque take place.

We weren’t even close to dying or right
After all, there was an arrow in that gorgeous repertoire

It is not our luck to do Visal-A-Yar
It was waiting for others to live

Getting in the Ishrat-e-Katra River
Limit the pain

There was nothing, nothing was happening
If I hadn’t drowned myself, I would have been