Kaifi Azmi Sahab Recite His Nazm “Naujawan”
Kaifi Azmi Sahab Recite His Nazm “Naujawan” at the Faiz Aman Mela held in Lahore in 1988.
SUDEEP SEN – MONT BLANC – for Kaifi Azmi on his 100th birth anniversary
Blue-black ink tip of your fountain pen’s nib etches words on your sepia notebook – lines outliving the instrument itself. Ink slow fills the belly of your pens, its capillary pressure coursing through the gold nib, the unseen veins parting…
Raag Shayari: Zakir Hussain, Javed Akhtar, Shankar Mahadevan and Shabana Azmi to pay tribute to Kaifi Azmi digitally
Raag Shayari: A musical tribute to Kaifi Azmi on his birth centenary 8th May, 6 pm on Youtube A rare program featuring Ustad Zakir Hussain, Javed Akhtar, Shankar Mahadevan, Shabana Azmi – Directed by Feroz Abbas Khan, Production Design Anuradha…
Naseeruddin Shah in Mijwan for ‘Mee Raqsam’ Shooting
Shooting for my longtime friend and colleague Baba (Mandrax the magician) Azmi’s maiden directorial venture “Mee Raqsan” I was privileged to visit Kaifi Azmi Sahabs birthplace MejwaN (pop:600) where he went to stay and work in the early ‘70s despite…
One Hundred Years of Kaifi Azmi – Indian Cultural Forum
One Hundred Years of Kaifi Azmi With two poems by Kaifi Azmi Husain Mir Ali Kaifi Azmi: Poems | Nazms is an homage to Kaifi Azmi’s centenary birth year. The book, edited by Sudeep Sen, is a specially curated volume that…
Film on Kaifi Azmi launches with UK world premiere
A documentary film produced by actor Shabana Azmi to mark the birth centenary year of her father Kaifi Azmi launched with a world premiere screening at the UK Asian Film Festival in London on Sunday. ‘Kaifinama‘ traces the life of…
Kaifi Azmi – a ‘maulvi’ who turned to music and Marx
I was born in a slave India, grew up in an independent India and would like to die in a socialist India. This dream of eminent Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi took a serious beating, like many of his contemporary idealists,…
Syed Mohammad Mehdi on Kaifi Azmi
SM Mehdi was a playwright, author, journalist and critic. As a young man he was drawn to the Communist party, and was a student leader in Kanpur and Lucknow. He worked with the Urdu cell of the Communist party in…
Family Ties – Memories
Shabana Azmi talks about her father, Kaifi Azmi and the unforgettable love letter he wrote to her mother.