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Gorky had been involved in the nascent social-democratic Marxist movement. He publicly opposed the tsarist regime, and for a time he was closely associated with the party’s bolshevik wing of Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov. He was exiled from Russia, and later from the Soviet Union, for a significant part of his life. …
Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir was born in February 1723 and also known as Mir, was an 18th-century Mughal Indian Urdu poet and one of the founders of the Urdu language. He was one of the principal poets of the Urdu Ghazal Delhi School and is still regarded as one of the Urdu language ‘s finest poets. His Mir Takhallus (pen name). He has spent the last part of his life at Asaf ‘s court. Mir lived at a time when …