Nasir Abbas Nayyar is a Pakistani Urdu critic who has a sound background of history and sociology, both necessary to his literary criticism output. Professor of Urdu at the Punjab University Oriental College, Lahore, he holds a PhD in Urdu Literature from the Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, and a post-Doctoral Degree from the University of Heidelberg. He is a highly respected critic and has won award from Pakistan's Government.
Best review-book I have ever read about a poet. And this review was not just a traditionally-styled mythopoeic anthology of poet's verses peppered with some of the instances from poet's life. This was a complete review discussing the style, life, previous criticism(s) and the art of Miraji.
He's a 'free thinker' in realest sense standing at the junction of East and West but has lost his train due to his personality and hence the passers-by (us) got to know him by chance.
I think I might place him near likes of Firaaq Gorakhpuri, Nazir Akbarabadi (in terms of poetic tradition) in my mind. But still Miraji has his own oeuvre.
I liked almost all of the poems added into this book but one I still remember goes like this:
mai tujhe jaan gaya rooh e abad/ tu tasawwur ki tamazat ke siva kuch bhi nahin