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Kolkata is an emotion for those who live here and for those who have visited this place at least once in their life. Famous Urdu and Persian poet Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan aka Mirza Ghalib was among those who were smitten by the city of Kolkata. Kolkata too has paid its respect to the famous poet by naming a street as the Mirza Ghalib Street. It is the street that joins S.N Banerjee Road and Park Street in Kolkata. The Mirza Ghalib Street has kept the poet still alive. His poems have been penned on the electrical junction boxes. The poet was very fond of this city and that reflects in his poems like this one,
“Kalkatte ka jo kiya tune humnasheen
Ik teer mere seeney mein mara haye haye”
You can find this line in one of those meter boxes. Ghalib’s fondness for Kolkata was also depicted on Doordarshan’s television show ‘Mirza Ghalib’, where Naseeruddin Shah played the titular role of Ghalib. Mirza Ghalib visited Kolkata (Calcutta) in 1828. He would have stayed here only if he didn’t have the compulsion to return to Delhi. The electric supply company took this initiative to turn the plain and simple meter boxes into interesting pieces of art resonating history and beautiful poetry. Though Ghalib was unable of staying in Kolkata his legacy has been carried forward by the citizens first by naming the street to Mirza Ghalib Street and then by inscribing the poet’s works.
