Mohammed Ramzan Bhat (1937 October 2020), known by his pen name as Mashal Sultanpuri, was a Kashmiri poet, writer and critic. He was primarily engaged in writing Kashmiri prose. Prior to his appointment as a patron of

Adbee Markaz Kamraz Adbee Markaz Kamraz (AMK), sometimes referred to as Adbee Markaz Kamraz Jammu and Kashmir (AMKJK), is an oldest and the largest cultural and literary organisation of the Jammu Jammu and Kashmir union territory focused on promoting and preserv ...

, the oldest literary organization of Jammu and Kashmir, he served as a president of AMK. In 2009, he became the recipient of

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

for his literary criticism book titled ''Vont''. He was among the other campaigners who helped

Kashmiri literature 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 sa ...

to be included in curriculum.

Biography

He was born in 1937 as Mohammed Ramzan Bhat in Sultanpur

Baramulla Baramulla (), also known as Varmul () in Kashmiri, is a town and a municipality in the Baramulla district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is also the administrative headquarters of the Baramulla district. It is on the ...

. He initially wrote under different pen names but later chose to go with Mashal Sultanpuri. He wrote nineteen poetic books in

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Kashmiri language Kashmiri () or Koshur (, /kəːʃur/) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by around 7 million Kashmiris of the Kashmir region, primarily in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. In 2020, the Parliament of India passed a bill to ma ...

s. During his school days, he was engaged in copying the poems of famous poets and later published his own poetry collection titled ''Keh Ghazale'' at the apparent age of sixteen. The second poetic collection he published in 1966 was ''Dubrai''. In 1974, he published another poetry titled ''Heevan''. He also translated some uncertain publications of

Muhammad 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 philos ...

, Sheikh Sarmad and Shakespeare's Sonnets. Later, he translated ''August Na'', a play by Manoranjan Das originally published in

Odia language Odia (, ISO: , ; formerly rendered Oriya ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the official language in Odisha (formerly rendered Orissa), where native speakers make up 82% of the population, and it is also ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sultanpuri, Mashal 1937 births 2020 deaths Kashmiri poets Poets from Jammu and Kashmir People from Baramulla district Urdu-language poets from India Indian literary critics Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Kashmiri Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation