Mirza Ghalib's Birth Anniversary

Mirza Ghalib, born on 27 December 1797, was a prominent Urdu and Persian poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen-names of Ghalib. His honorific was Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula. During his lifetime, the already declining Mughal empire was eclipsed and displaced by the Colonial British Raj and finally deposed following the defeat of the Indian rebellion of 1857, are some of the events that he described through his work.