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The couple quoted here is tempered with philosophical connotations.
The couple quoted here is tempered with philosophical connotations.
ftikhar Hussain, ‘Muztar’ Khairabadi, poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar’s grandfather and poet Jan Nisar Akhthar’s father, was the grandson of the renowned poet and thinker, Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi.
Jaleel Hasan, ‘Jaleel’ Manikpuri hailed from Lucknow and was mentored by the great Ameer Minai. He travelled to Hyderabad with Ameer and was eventually appointed by the sixth Nizam, Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, as his teacher. He succeeded the great Daagh Dehlavi as the Nizam’s teacher.
Zauq ranks among the greatest masters of the Urdu Ghazal and belongs to the finest period in the evolution of the popular poetic form. A poet-laureate at the court of the last Mughal emperor, a great poet and a man of refined sensibility himself, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Zauq adopted a style which was endearingly simple.
Khumar toys with words teasing meaning out of them in his exquisite style in his Ghazals which are thematically speaking, predominantly romantic.
Asghar Gondvi’s body of work is imbued with a powerful element of mysticism. The influence of Sufi philosophy on his poetry is very evident.
Mir Taqi ‘Mir’ (1723-1821) ranks among the greatest Urdu poets of all time. Mir enriched Urdu poetry and the Ghazal form in particular, when it was in its incipient stages.
