TODAY I AM MEMORIZING ONE ANOTHER STALWART & ONE OF THE MOST EMINENT URDU POET SRI RAGHUPATI SAHAI ALIAS FIRAQ GORAKHPURI, WHO WAS BORN ON 28-8 -1896 IN A HINDU KAYASTHA FAMILY AT GORAKHPUR (U.P.). HE COMPLETED M.A. IN ENGLISH AND THEN WAS SELECTED IN P.C.S. AND SUBSEQUENTLY IN I.C.S., BUT HE COULDNT CONTINUE IT AND JOINED THE NON-COOPERTION MOVEMENT LED BY MAHATMA GANDHI AND HE WAS SENT TO JAIL ALSO. LATER, HE JOINED ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY AS A ENGLISH LECTURER. HE WAS FOND OF WRITINGS POEMS, PHRASES, GHAZALS, NAZMS, RUBAEES IN URDU, PROSE PHRASES IN ENGLISH AND HINDI TOO. HE ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AMONGST THE GREAT URDU POETS INCLUDING IQBAL SAHAB, JANAB JOSH MALIHABADI AND JANAB JIGAR MORADABADI SAHAB. HE COMPOSED 12 VOLUMES OF URDU POETRY, 6 VOLUMES OF URDU PROSE, 4 VOLUMES OF ENGLISH PROSE AND MANY VOLUMES OF HINDI LITERATURE. HE WROTE AND COMPILED MANY BOOKS BUT FEW OF THEM ARE AS SHABISTAN, ROOH-E-KAYENAAT, SARGAM, BAZM-E-ZINDGI, MASHAAL, GUL-E-RANNAA AND GUL-E-NAGHMA ETC. HE WAS HONORED WITH GHALIB ACADEMY AWARD, SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARD, GYANPEETH AWARD AND THE PADAM BHUSHAN Etc. HE WAS HONORED AS PRODUCER EMERITUS OF ALL INDIA RADIO AND RESEARCH PROFESSOR IN UNIVERSITY GRANT COMMISSION TOO. THIS EVER GREAT LEGENDARY CELEBRITY WAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 85 YEARS IN DELHI ON 3rd OF MARCH 1982.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:14:09 +0000
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