India, Feb. 22 -- For the uninitiated, Urdu Adab is the quarterly journal of Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind) - an organisation comparable to the Academie Francaise in the formation of the Urdu literary canon. It is the only journal in Urdu that is respected across the globe. The October 2024 issue on Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810), known as Khuda-i Sukhan (God of Poetry), marks a milestone in literary history. It acknowledges a past mistake of censorship, rectifying it by publishing, for the first time, the complete unabridged text of Zikr-i Mir, the autobiography of Mir, both in Farsi and its Urdu translation. It was published for the first time in 1926 in Urdu Adab itself and then in 1928 in book form. The Anjuman published both versions and did ...