If it wasn't for Ghalib, I wouldn`t be a poet: Gulzar

If it wasn't for Ghalib, I wouldn`t be a poet: Gulzar
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 13:25 IST
By Subhash K Jha, Santa Banta News Network
/> Remember the television serial on Mirza Ghalib that Gulzar made in 1988? 20 years later Ghalib's memory remains as strongly imprinted on Gulzar's mind as ever.

Proof of it lies in the fact that on Sunday December 27 on the occasion of Ghalib's 200th birthday Gulzar flew down to Delhi to participate in the annual candlelight march in honour of the peerless poet.

Says Gulzar, "It's an annual ritual started by Pavan Kumar Varma who has researched intensely on Ghalib. Every year on Ghalib's birthday we Ghalib followers march with candles from the Townhall in Delhi to Ghalib Miyan's home at the Galli Qasim Jaan in Chandni Chowk."

Vishal Bhardwaj who was also in Delhi was expected to join the March.

Says Gulzar emotionally, "Remembering Mirza Ghalib on his birth anniversary is the least we can do. Do you know his house had been converted into a coal depot until Atal Bihari Vajpayeeji stepped in to rescue the mounument from doom.

Now Ghalib's home is a museum and a shrine which we visit every day on his birth anniversary. If it wasn't for Ghalib I wouldn't be a poet."
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