‘The Hidden Garden’: This book examines Mir Taqi Mir’s life through his incomparable poetry
A love story from the ghazal-writer’s life, and four ghazals. Mir Taqi Mir, 1786. | Public domain
Before he died, Mir’s father sent for Mir and his stepbrother, Hafiz Muhammad Hasan, who was not very friendly towards Mir. The father gave Hafiz three hundred books telling him that as a fakir he had no other possession. But then he turned his face towards Mir and told him, “Son, I owe three hundred rupees to the people in the market. You have to pay this debt.”