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The title poem has been cited by cultural and political figures in the years since its publication. The reasons for the work being cited vary. From the poem being critically and universally praised, [23] [21] to it becoming one of the most famous poems to be written about Kashmir, it was a poem that connected to the land and the people of the ...
Literature of Kashmir has a long history, the oldest texts having been composed in the Sanskrit language. Early names include Patanjali, the author of the Mahābhāṣya commentary on Pāṇini's grammar, suggested by some to have been the same to write the Hindu treatise known as the Yogasutra, and Dridhbala, who revised the Charaka Samhita of Ayurveda.
Agha Shahid Ali Qizilbash (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was an Kashmiri-born American poet. [1] [2] Born into a Kashmiri Muslim family, Ali immigrated to the United States and became affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry.
Lalleshwari, (c. 1320–1392) also commonly known as Lal Ded (Kashmiri pronunciation: [laːl dʲad]), was a Kashmiri mystic of the Kashmir Shaivism school of Hindu philosophy. [1] [2] She was the creator of the style of mystic poetry called vatsun or Vakhs, meaning "speech" (from Sanskrit vāc).
Professor Ghulam Nabi Firaq (15 July 1927 – 17 December 2016) was a Kashmiri poet, writer and an educationist. [2]As an educationist he tried his best to reach all sections of society to help them in uplifting their educational standards.
In 1877, after sketching the royalty of the Kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir, while on his way back, at Thanna Mandi, a place near Rajouri, in the afternoon of 13 June, V. C. Prinsep (1838-1904) met a traveling Kashmiri bard, a singing fakir, who regaled him with Kashmiri songs for hours while they walked. Prinsep made some notes, and later got two ...
Rasul Mir (Kashmiri: رَسوٗل میٖر) also known as Rasul Mir Shahabadi, was a Kashmiri romantic poet born in Doru Shahabad.He is often referred to as imām-e-ishqiya shairi' (The epitome of romantic poetry) for his literary contribution to Kashmiri romanticism.
Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad (August 1885 − 9 April 1952), known by his pen name as Mahjoor, was an Indian poet from Mitrigam in the Kashmir Valley. [2] [3] [4] He is especially noted for introducing a new style into Kashmiri poetry and for expanding Kashmiri poetry into previously unexplored thematic realms. [5]