Daag dehlvi biography samples
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DAAGH DEHLVI
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‘In Urdu There Are 18 Words for Love, but only One in English’
By Shweta Upadhyay
Photograph by Harikrishna Katragdda
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi shot to the notice of the English-speaking literary world in 2013 with his book called The Mirror of Beauty, a translation of his 2006 Urdu novel Kai Chand the Sar-e-Asman. Paucity of translators forced Faruqi to translate the novel himself. The book is a part-historical, part-fictional account of the life of Wazir Khanum, mother of the Urdu poet Daag Dehlvi. She had a highly unconventional career, and a fragmented life in which she had four lovers or husbands.
Her last husband was Mirza Fakhru, direct successor to Delhi’s throne after Bahadur Shah Zafar. While the book gives a glimpse into the court life and the noble culture of the last days of Mughal culture, its aim is to create a connection between Khanum’s life and the city of Delhi.
According to Faruqi there are many resonances between th
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Khawaja Reazuddin Atash [ خواجہ ریاض الدین عطش ] was a noted Urdu poet and writer from Pakistan. He wrote ghazals, nazms and hamd-o-na`at and authored books on the Urdu language and biography of Dr. Mubarak Azimabadi. He published his poems in three volumes: Saughat-e-Junoon, a collection of ghazals; Jashn-e-Junoon, a collection of nazms; and Vird-e-Nafas, a collection of Hamd-o-Naat. He also published Daagh ka Akhri Charagh, a biography of the famous Urdu poet Dr. Mubarak Azimabadi, a disciple of Daagh Dehlavi, Urdu ka Shajra-e-Nasab, a linguistic research and reference work on the Urdu language, and Urdu Dushman Tehreek ke Sau Saal, a collection of investigative papers and articles about anti-Urdu movements.
Atash was born on 4 March 1925, (8th Sha'ban, 1342 H) in the historic city of Azimabad (Patna) Bihar, India. He spent his early life in pre-partitioned India and migrated to Dhaka, East Pakistan (Bangladesh) in 1947, where he lived until 1971.
Atash joined the Royal Air