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New Delhi: While reading the poetry of one of the greatest Urdu poets, Mirza Ghalib, art historian Ranjit Hoskote stumbled upon a verse Rehte ke tumhi ustad nahi ho Ghalib, kehte hain agle zamane mein koi Mir bhi tha..
They say there used to be some guy called Mir.This opened the world of Mir Taqi Mirs poetry to Hoskote, leading him on a journey of translating the poets work...
From Gulzars 1988 television drama series Mirza Ghalib starring Naseeruddin Shah and Pavan K Varmas seminal book Ghalib: The Man, The Times in 1989, the poets life and poetry inspired numerous works over the years...
From Mirs Urdu Calendar to Deewan-e-Mir, Hoskote immediately fell in love with the liveliness and simplicity of the poets work, which came as a bit of a relief...
After years of reading and translating Mirs work, Hoskote used several adjectives to describe the poets writing style..
