Urdu poet
Urdu poetry ( ur, ) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the cultures of South Asia. According to Naseer Turabi there are five major poets of Urdu which are Mir Taqi Mir (d.1810), Mirza Ghali ...
Rajasthan
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India
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Biography
Makhmoor Saeedi was born on 31 December 1938 in
Tonk, India
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. His father, Ahmed Khan Nazish was also an Urdu poet of repute. After completing his school-studies he graduated from Agra University. After graduation he moved to
Delhi
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.
From 1956 to 1979, he worked as Joint Editor of Monthly ''Tahreek'', published by
Gopal Mittal
Gopal Mittal (1906–1993) (Urdu: گوپال مِتّل) was an Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist.
Biography
Gopal Mittal was born on 6 June 1906 in Malerkotla, Punjab Province, British India. His father, Walayati Ram Jain, was a renown ...
. Thereafter, he edited ''Nigar'', ''Aiwan e Urdu'' and ''Umang'', and was also the Secretary of Urdu Akademi, Delhi. He joined National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, an autonomous body under the HRD ministry in 1998 as literary advisor and edited research journal quarterly "Fikr o Tahqeeq". He was also honorary editor of NCPUL's news and views magazine monthly ''Urdu Duniya''. He died in
Jaipur
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, Rajasthan, on 2 March 2010 and was buried in Tonk.
Literary life
Makhmoor Saeedi wrote his first poem in 1948 when he was ten years old. He soon mastered the technique of writing Urdu poetry and excelled at writing
Ghazal
The ''ghazal'' ( ar, غَزَل, bn, গজল, Hindi-Urdu: /, fa, غزل, az, qəzəl, tr, gazel, tm, gazal, uz, gʻazal, gu, ગઝલ) is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a ...
s and Nazms in the conventional rhymed formats as well as in unrhymed blank and free-verse. He was greatly influenced by
Mohammad Iqbal
Sir Muhammad Iqbal ( ur, ; 9 November 187721 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philoso ...
Josh Malihabadi
Josh Malihabadi (born Shabbir Hasan Khan; 5 December 1898 – 22 February 1982) popularly known as Shayar-e-Inqalab (poet of revolution) was a Pakistani poet and is regarded as one of the finest Urdu poets of the era of British India. Kno ...
. He is considered one of the preeminent practitioners of modern poetry in Urdu alongside
Basheer Badr
Bashir Badr (born Syed Muhammad Bashir; 15 February 1935) is an Indian poet. He was teaching Urdu in Aligarh Muslim University. He primarily writes in Urdu language particularly ghazals. He also wrote a couplet titled ''Dushmani Jam Kar Karo ...
,
Ali Sardar Jafri
Ali Sardar Jafri (29 November 1913 – 1 August 2000) was an Indian writer of Urdu language. He was also a poet, critic and film lyricist.
Biography
Early life and education
Ali Sardar Jafri was born in Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, where he sp ...
and
Kaifi Azmi
Kaifi Azmi (born Athar Husain Rizvi; 14 January 1919 – 10 May 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He is remembered as the one who brought Urdu literature to Indian motion pictures. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jaun Elia and others he participated ...
.
He was the poet of real earthy love and beauty who also wrote qataas, rubais, geets and dohas. His twenty publications include ''Sabrang'', ''Seah bar Safed'', ''Awaz ke jism'', ''Wahid Mutakallam'', ''Aate jaate lamhon ki sadaa'', ''Guftani'', ''Deewar o dar ke darmiaan'' and ''Rasta aur main''.
''Rasta aur main'' earned him the 2007 Sahitya Akademi Award.
An appraisal of his life and works compiled by Sheen Kaaf Nizam titled ''Bheed mein akelaa'' was published by the Rajasthan Urdu Akademi in 2007.
Bibliography
Urdu poetry:
* ''Sabrang''
* ''Seah bar Safed''
* ''Awaz ke jism''
* ''Wahid Mutakallam''
* ''Aate jaate lamhon ki sada''
* ''Guftani''
* ''Deewar o dar ke darmiaan''
* ''Rasta aur main''
* ''Ghar kahin gum ho gayaa''
* ''Perh girta huaa''
* ''Sheerazah''