Kaifi Azmi – Biography
Sayyid Akhtar Hussein Rizvi, known as Kaifi Azmi (January 14, 1919 — May 10, 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He was considered to be one the greatest Urdu poets of 20th century. Kaifi Azmi was married to Shaukhat…
Sayyid Akhtar Hussein Rizvi, known as Kaifi Azmi (January 14, 1919 — May 10, 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He was considered to be one the greatest Urdu poets of 20th century. Kaifi Azmi was married to Shaukhat…
इस मुख़्तसर मज्मुए में कैफ़ी आज़मी ने गुज़श्ता पच्चीस बरस का मुन्तख़ब2 कलाम शामिल किया है यानी एक तरह से यह उनका सिल्वर जुबली एडिशन है l पढ़नेवालों को शायद सबसे बड़ी तो इस मज्मुए के इख्तिसार3 से शिकायत होगी…
Listen to Sajjad Zaheer here जदीद1 उर्दू शायरी के बाग़ में एक नया फूल खिला है, एक सुर्ख़2 फूल l कैफ़ी आज़मी से मेरी वाक़िफ़ियत3 एक साल से भी कम की है, उनसे मुलाक़ात को अभी छह महीने भी नहीं…
कैफ़ी आज़मी मेरे समकालीन थे. उसी तरह जैसे उम्र के फ़र्क के बावजूद वह अपने सीनियर शायर जोश मलीहाबादी, रघुपति सहाय फ़िराक़ और जिगर मुरादाबादी के समकालीन थे. वह इन बुज़ुर्गों के ज़माने के नौजवान शायर थे. सन् 35-36 में…
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…
In the foreword to ‘Maha Prastavana’ by the famous Telegu poet Sri Sri, the famous Telegu humourist Chilam had said that Krishna Shastri is a poet who gives all his pains to the world, and Sri Sri makes the sorrows…
As young people Shaukat and Kaifi fall desperately in love with each other but are soon parted. For Shaukat’s family, a card-holding communist, a poet with no source of income, is hardly the kind of person their daughter should be…
Ali Sardar Jafri being already involved with PWA, introduced Kaifi to Sajjad Zaheer and other stalwarts of PWA and they become de facto official poets of Leftist Movement in India, along with Sahir Ludhiyanvi .