Category: People

  • Nazeer Banarsi

    Nazeer Banarsi (Born on 25th November, 1909) is a patriotic poet, who uses simple and powerful diction in his poetic compositions to convey his thoughts and feelings. One of his major characteristics is that his poetry covers tone and texture of Indian exalted culture and traditions. Nazeer Banarsi is pure Banarsi. His ancestors also are…

  • Miraq Mirza

    Miraq Mirza, a poet, script writer and film director was born to Ahmad Husain son of Mohd Ishaq and Sakina Bano d/o Mirza Hajjan Ali on 24th of December, 1962 in Mohalla Kamra, Muzaffarpur and he settled in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He has MA degree in English literature. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas is his ideal and icon.…

  • SIRAJ SHOLAPURI

    Siraj Sholapur, a eminent poet from Sholapur, in Maharashtra

  • Safia Akhtar was a litterateur with a distinctive style in twentieth century. She was born in Rudauli. Rudauli is an ancient town with continuous history for about a millennium. Rudauli produced a number of Muslim dignitaries, one of which was the famous romantic poet. Asrarul Haq Majaz, four years senior to his sister. In 1943,…

  • Faheem Amburi

    Faheem Amburi named Mohd Abdul Aziz (b. 1881, d. 1943 was born at Ambur. He was a poet of jolly nature and temperament. Urdu language was not his mother tongue. However, he chose this language to express his thoughts and feelings. He was also a powerful orator gaining the title ‘Fasihul Lisan’ because of his…

  • Dr Mohammad Raziul Islam Nadvi

    Dr Mohammad Raziul Islam Nadvi, an active member of Jamat-e-Islami, Hind is a renowned Islamic Scholar, Writer, Translator and Social Activist. He was born on 27th May, 1964 in the village Rajapur, Bulbulnawaz of the district Bahraich, UP. His father was Mohammad Shafi Khan. Early Years Dr Mohammad Raziul Islam Nadvi got primary education in…

  • HARIVANSH RAI BACCHAN

    Harivansh Rai Bacchan is a well known name in India and abroad in reference to Hindi Literature and Bacchan Family. Born 1997 in Allahabad, he has contributed memorable and highly acclaimed literary works to the Hindi literature. Madhushala (1935) Madhubala  (1938), Madhukalash (1938) Nisha Nimantran, Ekant Sangeet, Akul – Antar, Milanyamini, Satrangini, Arti and Anagre,…

  • My name is Nishrin Hussain. I was born in a small town called Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh, India, my maternal grandparents’ hometown. My grandfather was a farmer in a nearby village called Rustampur. My paternal grandfather was a doctor from Burhanpur who moved with his family to Ahmedabad. This is the town my mother Zakiya Jafri…

  • Hazrat Khwaja Syed Muhammad Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (Urdu: حضرت خواجہ سیّد محمد قطب الدین بختیار کاکی) was a renowned Sufi saint and scholar of the Chishti Order from Delhi, India. Khwaja Qutbuddin’s original name was Bakhtiar but his title was Qutbuddin. The additional suffix of ‘Kaki’ to his name was attributed to hint by virtue of a miracle that…