Rehana Nawab (Rehana Begam) is a contemporary poetess, who has been serving the calling of poesy in Urdu for many decades. Born in Kila Nizamat Murshidabad on 21st of October, 1985 to their parents Syed Sabir Husain Mirza and Syda Sultana Begam, she traces her lineage to the Nawab Family of Bengal. A graduate in education, she is engaged in education and teaching in addition to attending poetic symposium within the country and abroad. She started her poetry from 1977, being a disciple of Hazrat Ahmad Rais. Her poetry collection ‘Shahr Shahr Numaish’ has been published in 2013. She is a popular poet in Mushaira. She has recited her pomes in the national and international poetry symposiums of Dubai, Masqat, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Riyaz, Jeddah, America and Pakistan amongst others. Various organizations in the country and abroad have awarded her prestigious awards. She lives in Kolkata.
Poetry of Rehana Nawab is characteristic of sacred feelings of affection and realistic ethos of life.
तेरा मेयारे मुहब्बत है लबो रुख़सार तक
जिस्म देखे तुने रूहों का मिलन देखा नही
(Your standard of affection is only lip and cheek. You see only body not the soul)
The poetry collection of Rehana Nawab “Shahr Shahr Numaish” is a good read. She has expressed her thoughts and feeling in a unique style and diction. We find diverse shades of life in her compositions. Tender feelings, society matters, all dimensions of pains and pleasures, serious and ordinary realities, conflicts and harmonies, tears of eyes, shadows of love, season of meet and reasons of separations, all these echo in the poetry of Rehana Nawab.
Rehana Nawab knows well that the poetry is not a simple narrative. How the life experiences should be given vent in powerful rhyme and rhythm, she is sufficiently aware of it. She has established herself a major poet of ghazal.
मेरी चश्मे नम में जो अक्स है, मेरी हस्रतों का अमीन है
मेरे दस्तरस से जो दूर है मुझे क्यों उसी की तलाश है(The reflection in my tearful eyes is the trustee of my wishes. Why I long for what is beyond my reach?
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