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Mohammad Sanaullah Sani
Dar Meeraji
[ 1912- 1949]
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Meeraji is said to have adopted this pen name because of his unrequited love for a girl called Mira Sen. He was born in Gujranwala, West Punjab ( Pakistan) on May 25, 1912 and was called Mohammad Sanaullah Sani Dar. He dropped out of school but read widely. He lived the life of a bohemian and worked only intermittently. He was associated with editing Adabi Duniya ( Lahore) and later worked for the All India Radio, Delhi. He wrote literary columns for the monthly Saqi ( Delhi) and helped edit Khayal ( Bombay) for a short period. Mira ji acknowledged his debt to the Sanskrit poet Amaru and the French poet Baudelaire. He also translated from the Sanskrit poet Damodar Gupta and the Persian poet Omar Khayyam. A prominent member of the Halqa, many cconsider him to be one of the founders of symbolism in Urdu poetry. He practiced free verse and believed in uninhibited expression of ideas in open forms. He wrote illuminating criticism of poetry and yearned to alter the expression of his age. He published little of his poetry during his lifetime. Two of his verse anthologies were published posthumously and the Kulliyat-e-Miraji appeared only in 1988. Miraji died in Bombay on November 4th, 1949 a diseased, alcoholic, forlorn, angry man, disenchanted with life. His father Munshi Mohammad Mahtabuddin was
an engineer in Indian Railways, so Meeraji was bought up in apparently
affluent and affectionate circumstances. He left his home and family for
certain inexplainable reasons, and spent a greater part of his life as
a homeless wanderer, staying with his friends, and making his living by
writing songs,
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