In today’s climate, it is important to remember people who used their art as an instrument of social change: it was with these words that actor and activist Shabana Azmi prefaced her tribute to the life and work of her…
In honour of the one hundredth birthday celebrations of the Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi, Indian writer and translator Rakhshanda Jalil has put together what her publisher calls a “curatorial” selection of Azmi’s lyrics and nazms (poems composed around a theme…
I, Ameeta Parsuram ‘Meeta’, have been organizing BAZM: Jashn-e-Ghazal, since 2009, in the capital of India. Bazm is successful because Dilliwallas love this event….Ghazal lovers of Delhi look forward to it because this event is aimed at preserving traditional Ghazal…
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…
Sudeep Sen on Kaifi Azmi’s poems, the texture of his verse, and the new life of translated texts. Epaper IndianExpress, read here : http://epaper.indianexpress.com/2160883/Chandigarh/May-19-2019#page/27/2 (Phentermine)
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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…
Renowned poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar said here on Saturday that Kaifi Azmi, the great Urdu poet and lyricist, lived a life that mirrored his writings. Speaking at the second and concluding day of the Dehradun Poetry Festival, Akhtar said…
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,…
