Meera ji urdu poet biography assignments

Urdu writer (1912-1949)

Mohammad Sanaullah Dar (25 May 1912 – 3 November 1949), better known as Meeraji was an Indian Urdu poet.^[1] He lived the life of a bohemian, working only intermittently.

Meera ji urdu poet biography assignments

Early life

Born into a Kashmiri family^[2] of Gujranwala and named Mohammed Sanaullah Dar, he passed his childhood days in Kucha Sardar Shah, Mozang, Lahore. His father, Munshi Mohammad Mahtabuddin, was a railway engineer, so his family had to often move from one place to another.

He lived in Kathiawar, Bostan (Baluchistan), Sanghar and Jacobabad.

Meeraji began composing poetry, under the pseudonym of Sasri, when he was at school. It was from his later encounter with a Bengali girl, Meera Sen, who was a daughter of an accounts officer serving in Lahore, that he fell deeply in love.^[3] This left a permanent trace in his life that he adopted his pen name on her name.^[4] Though brought up in affluent surroundings, Meeraji left