Tag: Poets

  • Ali Sardar Jafri  (My Sardar – Sultana Jafri)

    (Ali Sardar Jafri is considered one of the most distinguished poets, critics and prose writers of Urdu language, who had won a number of accolades including Gyanpith Award. Here we present the English version of the impressions penned by her wife Sultan Jafri for a magazine after he left for heavenly abode) I met (Ali)…

  • Sultan Shamsi: A Poet

    Sultan Shamsi is one of the contemporary Urdu poets   continuing the glorious tradition of poesy in the subcontinent. He has a number of poetry collections to his credit that have been published by the leading publishers of India with standard printing norms and pleasing design to the eyes. Andaz-e- Sukhan is in my hand while…

  • Nora the Nurse

    Nora, the Nurse is a poem written by the romantic and progressive poet, Asrarul Haque Majaz. Nurse is central theme in a short story ‘Kante and Kalyan, by Akhtar Orenvi, which is the result of his first hand experience in a sanatorium where he was admitted for about one and half years.  A nurse fell…

  • Rehana Nawab

    Rehana Nawab is a contemporary port of Urdu, popular in the poetry symposium.

  • Nizami Badayuni

    Nizami Badayuni was a polymath from Badayuni, a poet, journalist, printer, publisher and an author, writing and editing books on various subjects and topics. He was born in 1872 CE / 1288 in his ancestral home situated in Mohalla Sooth of Badayun, a legendary land were the genius personalities such as Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya and…

  • 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

  • Alok Dhanwa, a People’s Poet

    Alok Dhanwa was born on 2nd July, 1948 in the village Belbihma of Munger District in Bihar. Alok is regarded one of those poets of Hindi literature, who gave new dimensions to the poetry. His poems touch the life of a common man. Bhagi Hui Ladki “Girls Eloped”, Janta Ka Admi “Man of the Public”,…