Seemab Akbarabadi
Seemab Akbarabadi ( ur, ) born Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui ( ur, , 5 June 1882 – 31 January 1951) was an Urdu poet from British India and Pakistan.Agra
Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra is ...
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Uttar Pradesh
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. After having founded ''Qasr-ul-Adab'' in 1923,
Seemab Akbarabadi
Seemab Akbarabadi ( ur, ) born Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui ( ur, , 5 June 1882 – 31 January 1951) was an Urdu poet from British India and Pakistan.Urdu
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Agra
Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra is ...
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Shair
''Shair'' ( ur, ) is the oldest Urdu-language literary magazine, based in Mumbai, India. It was launched in Agra in 1930 by the famous poet Seemab Akbarabadi. Its editor-in-chief is the poet, writer and journalist Iftikhar Imam Siddiqui, and ...
; he was its first editor. A few years later i.e. in 1935, in order to concentrate on the other than more important activities of ''Qasr-ul- Adab'', he had handed over the charge of this magazine to Aijaz Siddiqi who carrying forward the tradition of his father remained its editor till 1978 long after the publication of
Shair
''Shair'' ( ur, ) is the oldest Urdu-language literary magazine, based in Mumbai, India. It was launched in Agra in 1930 by the famous poet Seemab Akbarabadi. Its editor-in-chief is the poet, writer and journalist Iftikhar Imam Siddiqui, and ...
was shifted from
Agra
Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra is ...
to
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
in 1947 and
Seemab Akbarabadi
Seemab Akbarabadi ( ur, ) born Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui ( ur, , 5 June 1882 – 31 January 1951) was an Urdu poet from British India and Pakistan.Karachi
Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former cap ...
. Mahendra Nath, the Urdu short-story writer and younger brother of
Krishan Chander
Krishan Chander (23 November 1914 – 8 March 1977) was an Indian Urdu and Hindi writer of short stories and novels. Some of his works have also been translated in English. He was a prolific writer, penning over 20 novels, 30 collections o ...
had also joined him to compile and edit several special issues of
Shair
''Shair'' ( ur, ) is the oldest Urdu-language literary magazine, based in Mumbai, India. It was launched in Agra in 1930 by the famous poet Seemab Akbarabadi. Its editor-in-chief is the poet, writer and journalist Iftikhar Imam Siddiqui, and ...
.
In his dress and appearance Aijaz resembled his father. Presently there exist two collections of his poems – 1) ''Khwaabon ke masiha'' and 2) ''Karb e khud kalaami'', both published in 1966.http://www.openlibrary.org/OL11294A/Aijaz_Siddiqi