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Khalid Bashir Ahmad is a Kashmiri author, poet, and former civil servant. [1] [2] He has written on the socio-political history of Kashmir.Ahmad served in the Kashmir Administrative Services (KAS) and held positions including Director of Information and Public Relations and Secretary of the Jammu & Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture, and Languages.
Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki (16 March 1910 – 16 April 1998 [2]), also spelled Meer Ghulam Rasul Naazki, was a Kashmiri poet, writer, broadcaster, and teacher. He wrote books, including poetry in regional and foreign languages such as Urdu, Persian, Arabic and later work in Kashmiri language.
Roya Hakakian, poet, writer, journalist (رؤیا حکاکیان) Saboktakin Saloor, novelist; Sadegh Choubak, writer (صادق چوبک) Sadegh Hedayat (صادق هدایت) Sadriddin Ayni (صدرالدین عینی), Tajikistan's national poet and one of the most important writers of the country's history. Saeed Nafisi, scholar, poet and writer
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.
Khwaja Muhammad Azam Kaul Didamari (died 1765) was a Sufi Kashmiri writer in the Persian language. Khwaja means "master", Didamari means from the Didamar quarter of Srinagar. [1] His history entitled Waqiat-i-Kashmir (The Story of Kashmir), also known after the writer's name as Tarikh-i-Azami (History by Azam), was published in Persian in 1747.
The Persian translator of Rajatarangini, Mulla Muhammad, who had translated Rajatarangini in Persian, entitled Behr-ul-Asmar, (or the sea of tales), at the behest of Sultan Zain-ul-Abidin (1421-1472) A.D of Kashmir, was from Dooru, Shahabad. The colonial Indian-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto's family had also originated from Dooru ...
In Kashmiri literature besides Persian and Urdu, he is often recognized one of the greatest poets of the Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in Kashmir Valley, a place he lived his life. [1] [4] He was born around 1630 as Muhammad Tahir Gani Ashai in Ashai family and lived in Rajouri Kadal, Srinagar.
Mulla Mohammad Taufiq Kashmiri, another popular Persian poet of the era who lived near Jama Masjid area of Srinagar and wrote under takhalus Taufiq was a contemporary of Betab. Betab was a frequent visitor to the Court ( Durbar ) of Pandit Raja Kak Dar, who was also a gifted poet and wrote under takhalus Farukh.