Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish (1764 –1846) of

Lucknow Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division ...

was an Urdu poet. Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish Lakhnawi is one of the giants of

Urdu literature Urdu literature ( ur, , ) is literature in the Urdu language. While it tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ''ghazal '' غزل and '' nazm '' نظم, it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of ...

. Aatish and Imam Baksh Nasikh were contemporary poets whose rivalry is well known. Both had hundreds of disciples. The era of Aatish-Nasikh was a golden era for

Urdu poetry 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 ...

in Lucknow. Aatish is mostly known for his ghazals, and for his amazing and different style of poetry.

Life

His ancestors had moved from Delhi to Lucknow. His focus on subjective experience, examining how people retain dignity in suffering, set him apart from other Luckhnavi ghazal writers like Nasikh, who emphasised the technical aspects of Ghazal writing. He also wrote poems in the Khamariyyat tradition, to protest the ills of the feudal society. It is also said that Aatish belonged to Faizabad, his father had died early during his childhood, but his deep instinctive taste of poetry gave Aatish easy access to the court of Nawab Mohammed Taqi Khan Taraqqi who took him to Lucknow. In Lucknow he became a disciple of Mushafi, an important poet of the Lucknow school. Soon after the death of Nasikh, Aatish stopped writing poetry. Some critics rank him after

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and

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. Pandit Dayashankar Nasim was a student of Aatish.

Works

*''Kulliyat-e-Khwaja Haider Ali Atish'' *''Deewan-e-Aatish''

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External links

Khwaja Haidar Ali Atish at Kavita Kosh
(Hindi font)
Khwaja Haidar Ali Atish Poetry

Read Khwaja Haidar Ali Atish at Jakhira.com in Hindi font
* http://www.bestghazals.net/2007/01/ye-aarzoo-thi-tujhe-gul-ke-rubaru-karte.html 1764 births 1846 deaths Indian poets 18th-century Indian Muslims 19th-century Indian Muslims 18th-century Indian poets 19th-century Indian poets Urdu-language poets from India Urdu-language writers from Mughal India {{India-poet-stub

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