Kashmir
Kashmir () is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompas ...
i poet of the 20th century. He was born on 18 March 1916 in
Srinagar
Srinagar (English: , ) is the largest city and the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It lies in the Kashmir Valley on the banks of the Jhelum River, a tributary of the Indus, and Dal and Anchar lakes. The city is known for its natu ...
Kashmiri Kashmiri may refer to:
* People or things related to the Kashmir Valley or the broader region of Kashmir
* Kashmiris, an ethnic group native to the Kashmir Valley
* Kashmiri language, their language
People with the name
* Kashmiri Saikia Baruah ...
, though he initially wrote in
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
Heemaal Taa Naaegrai'' (Heemaal and Naagraaj), ''Shuhul Kull'' (The Shady Tree) and ''Bombur Taa yamberzal'' (Bumblebee and the Narcissus Flower). His most popular operatic work was ''Bombur Taa yamberzal'', which was the first opera to be published in Kashmiri. ''Me Chhum Aash Paghich'' (''I am hopeful of tomorrow'') is the most powerful
Anti war
Anti may refer to:
*Anti-, a prefix meaning "against"
*Änti, or Antaeus, a half-giant in Greek and Berber mythology
*A false reading of ''Nemty'', the name of the ferryman who carried Isis to Set's island in Egyptian mythology
*Áńt’į, or co ...
poem in Kashmiri which Nadim wrote. He received the Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1971 and the Sahitya Natak Academi Award for "Shuhul Kull" in 1986. He died on 7 April 1988.
See also
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List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Kashmiri
The Sahitya Akademi Awards have been given annually since 1955 by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. They are awarded to writers in the various languages of India in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the u ...