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67Mirza Ghalib was a prominent Urdu poet from Chandni Chowk of Delhi who lived from 1796 to 1868. He not only wrote couplets (Sher-o-Shairi), but was also the father of Urdu prose. His beautiful melodious and well-rhymed ghazals are still loved and appreciated all over the world.Suryakant Tripathi was a poet, novelist, essayist and story-writer. He also drew many sketches, and achieved fame through his pen name %u2018Nirala%u2019. %u2018Apara%u2019 is one of his famous collections of poems. He is associated with bringing in free verse in modern Indian poetry.Mahadevi Verma was a Hindi poet, freedom fighterandeducationistfromIndiawhowasborn in Allahabad in 1907. She was one of the four pillars of the great movement in Hindi poetry %u2013 %u2018Chhayavaad%u2019. Her poetic canvas boasts of %u2018Deepshikha%u2019, a book comprisingfifty-onepoems.