Lucknow
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writing under the name, Yagana Lucknawi.
Work and contribution
In 1946,
Sajjad Zaheer
Syed Sajjad Zaheer ( ur, ) (5 November 1899 – 13 September 1973) was an Indian Urdu writer, Marxist ideologue and radical revolutionary who worked in both India and Pakistan. In the pre-independence era, he was a member of the Communist ...
persuaded Yagana to prepare his Kulliyat for publication by the
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925.
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publishing house, Qaumi Darul Ishaat. However, according to one source, "This collection, however, proved to be so unwholesome that we could consider it a major tragedy. Some couplets were added and some corrected (rather changed to the extent that Yagana lost his cool and blew up)".
According to Intezar Husain,
Mushfiq Khwaja has done a great job. He has managed to pull out a poetic genius from the oblivion where he had been pushed by his hostile contemporaries. They saw to it that he was personally humiliated as a poet. His uncompromising attitude in respect of his literary opinions and his unorthodox thinking in matters of religion made their task easy. While still alive, he was consigned to the grave along with his poetry. His poetic work remained unpublished. Most of us had heard of him only as a crackpot with no respect for the greats of Urdu poetry.Intizar Husain "Yagana Rediscovered"] in ''Dawn'', 23 March 2003.
In 2003, Pakistanis, Pakistani scholar and writer Mushfiq Khwaja created a compilation of Yagana's work, ''Kulliyat-i-Yagana'' . It included four collections of poems to his credit: ''Nishtar-i Yas'', ''Tarana'' , ''Aayat-i-Wijdani'' and also ''Ganjina'' (1948). The compilation also included Yagana's ''Ghalib-Shikan'' and other prose works. .
Bibliography
The literary works of Yagana include.
* ''Nishtar-i- Yaas'' (1914)
* ''Tarana'' (1933)
* ''Aayat-i-Wijdani'' (1927)
* ''Ganjina'' (1948)
* ''Ghalib-Shikan''