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The government wasn't amused by his anti-establishment poems and he was jailed in 1949 along with other leftists like Balraj Sahni. Majrooh's arrest took place during a nationwide arrest of communists after the 2nd Congress of the Communist Party of India in 1948, in which the communists had decided to carry out a revolution against the Indian ...
Sahir's life has been chronicled by Sabir Dutt [27] and by Chander Verma and Dr. Salman Abid in "Main Sahir Hoon" [9] Sahir Ludhianvi: the People's Poet by Akshay Manwani is the product of interviews and writings about Sahir by his friends such as Yash Chopra, Dev Anand, Javed Akhtar , Khayyam, Sudha Malhotra , Ravi Chopra and Ravi Sharma . [ 28 ]
Aab-e hayat (Urdu: آبِ حیات, lit. water of life) is a commentary (or tazkira) on Urdu poetry written by Muhammad Husain Azad in 1880. [1] The book was described as "canon-forming" and "the most often reprinted, and most widely read, Urdu book of the past century." [1] [2] The book is regarded as the first chronological history of Urdu ...
Syed Hussain Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi, [2] [a] commonly known by his pen name Jaun Elia, [b] 14 December 1931 – 8 November 2002), was a Pakistani poet.One of the most prominent modern Urdu poets of ghazals (odes), popular for his unconventional ways, he "acquired knowledge of philosophy, logic, Islamic history, the Muslim Sufi tradition, Muslim religious sciences, Western literature, and Kabbala ...
Shehzad's poetry collection comprises about thirty books and several other publications on psychology. In the 1990s, he earned national recognition and was awarded Pride of Performance award by the Government of Pakistan. He is also credited with translating non-Urdu poems into Urdu language. [2]
His poetry often reflected deep contemplation on the mysteries of life, [5] human emotions, and the nature of existence. his verses were characterized by their profoundness and intricacy, earning him a distinct place in Urdu literature. [6] [7] Apart from his poetry, he was also a philosopher and intellectual. He wrote extensively on various ...
Amir Khusro (1253–1325) composed the first ghazal in Urdu, titled ze-hāl-e-miskīñ. [2] He wrote in Persian and Rekhta (initial form of Urdu). Mirza Ghalib is considered one of the leading literary authority on Urdu poetry. [3] He lived in Delhi [4] and died in 1869. The literal meaning of shayar (shaa'ir) is poet. [5]
Faiz-e-Mir, a collection of five stories about Sufis & faqirs, said to have been written for the education of his son Mir Faiz Ali. [21] Zikr-e-Mir, an autobiography written in Persian. [3] Kulliyat-e-Farsi, a collection of poems in Persian; Kulliyat-e-Mir, a collection of Urdu poetry consisting of six diwans (volumes). Mir Taqi Mir Ki Rubaiyat