27 December - Mirza Ghalib

Ghalib born Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, (27 December 1797 – 15 February 1869),was a prominent Urdu and Persian poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen-names of Ghalib (Urdu: غالِب, ġhālib means "dominant") and Asad (Urdu: اسَد, Asad means "lion"). During his lifetime, the already declining Mughal empire was eclipsed and displaced by the Colonial British Raj and finally deposed following the defeat of the Indian rebellion of 1857, are some of the events that he described through his work.

Most notably, he wrote in both Urdu and Persian. His Persian Divan is at least five times longer than his Urdu but his fame rests on his poetry in Urdu.

Today, Ghalib remains popular not only in India and Pakistan but also among the Hindustani diaspora around the world.

27 December - Visit The Zoo Day

 

Visit The Zoo Day is an annual celebration observed on December 27th of every year. If you are passionate about animals and wanted to know more about their living, you could visit a zoo. It is not only a place where they stay rather it the same place in which lots of studies are taken place about each animal. The zoo is the place that safeguards the animals that are endangered and makes them out of not becoming extinct. Also, the zoo is the only place other than forest where we could see the wild animals. It is possible to look at them in close which is not possible and safe in the forest. Visit The Zoo Day is the best time to have a look at those animals which you hadn’t seen so far. The Day encourages all of us to take a look at nature in a closer perspective.