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Career

In 1950, Kabir worked in the Food and Marketing Department of the central government in

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, where he met other poets such as

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, Zuber Rizvi and Naresh Kumar Shad. He was influenced by their work and started to write his own poems. Subsequently, he was transferred to

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. The first of his poems to be set to music was a ghazal, ''Phoolon ki barsaat'', which was sung in the

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style by Hanif Agrawal. Over time, his ghazals were sung by other well-known singers such as Hariharan,

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,

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,

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and

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. His ghazal, ''Uski gali mein phir mujhe ek baar len chalo'', has been sung and popularised by many singers including

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, Munni Begum,

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, Salman Alvi and the

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. In 1957, Kabir was the Screenwriter for the drama ''Mirza Ghalib'' presented in the Fine Arts Drama Competition at Rastrapati Bhawan,

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. He served as member of the Nagpur University Board of Studies for the Urdu language from 1991 to 1995.

Works

''Kachchi Deewaren'', his first book (Novel), was published in 1958, followed by ''Charon Aour'' (1968; Collection of ghazals), ''Mitti Ka Makan'' (1979; Collection of ghazals) and ''Pehchaan'' (1999; Collection of ghazals). ''Pehchaan'' was also published in

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script in 2002, compiled by his son Sameer Kabeer. A collection of his geet, ghazals and nazm, ''Us Ki Gali'', was compiled by Sameer Kabeer in Devanagari and Urdu script and published in 2014. Kabir established the link between the Reevayati (old) shayari and the Jadid (new) shayari. His ghazal 'Thukrao ab ke pyar karo' featured in the 1999 album 'A Journey' by

Jagjit Singh Jagjit Singh (born Jagmohan Singh Dhiman; 8 February 1941 – 10 October 2011) was an Indian composer, singer and musician. He composed and sang in numerous languages and is credited for the revival and popularity of ghazal, an Indian cl ...

.

Recognition

His collection of ghazals ''Mitti Ka Makan'' (1979) and ''Pehchaan'' (1999) were awarded prizes by the Maharashtra State Urdu Academy. His collection of modern ghazals ''Charon Aour'' was included in a course at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University. His poems have been included in Urdu textbooks in India's 12th standard curriculum as prescribed by the Maharashtra State Board of Education.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kabir, Shahid Writers from Nagpur 1932 births 2001 deaths Indian Muslims Urdu-language poets from India Poets from Maharashtra Indian male poets 20th-century Indian poets

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