Kar chale ham fida jaan-o-tan saathiyo Ab tumhare hawale watan saathiyo (Consecrating our lives to our land, we leave (for war), our land is now in your care, friends…). There could be no greater tribute to offer than to quote…
As a website devoted to poet-lyricist extraordinaire Kaifi Azmi was unveiled, his daughter, actor-activist Shabana Azmi, spoke to Yogesh Pawar about his life and work and their impact on her. How did the idea for a website come about? What…
Q. What drove you to choose the profession you are in? What would you attribute your success to? Ans. It was predestined in a way. My mother Shaukat Kaifi who is a very respected Theatre artist was working with Prithvi…
Kaifi Azmi loved his wife passionately. He wrote her many romantic shers, even sent her letters written in blood that she still treasures.
The kind of audience Kaifi Aur Main appeals to are romantics, fans of my father’s songs, of his poetry. All these are integral to the language the book was written in. It wouldn’t be fair to bring it back in…
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 1998 by Yogesh Pawar You mention `socialism’ and his gnarled face lights up. “It can never die,” says the octogenarian poet, Kaifi Azmi, on whom the Maharashtra government has decided to confer the Dnyaneshwar award, this year.…
Great authors have immense compassion in their hearts, sometimes far more than what they share or reveal through their writings. Even in severe adversity, they never turn bitter, instead exhibit a profound capacity to understand ‘conflicts’ which help lay bare…
