Ishqnaama: The love-life of Meeraji
A major modernist poet, by all means, Meeraji is also a myth of sorts. He had to be so, for he lived a life completely atypical and totally abysmal.
A major modernist poet, by all means, Meeraji is also a myth of sorts. He had to be so, for he lived a life completely atypical and totally abysmal.
फ़राज़ रिहाई के बाद ऑफ़िस में बैठे थे कि फ़ोन की घंटी बजने लगी। उधर से आवाज़ आई, “वज़ीर-ए-आज़म आपसे बात करना चाहते हैं। भुट्टो फ़ोन पर आते ही बोले, ”फ़राज़ दिस इज़ मी, दिस टाइम आई सेवड योर लाईफ़। दे वांट टू ट्राई यू।”
भारतेन्दु हरिश्चंद्र को हिंदी अदब की दुनिया में एक हमा-दाँ अदीब के तौर पर बेपनाह शोहरत और मक़बूलियत हासिल है। बेशक भारतेन्दु ने हिंदी अदब में एक लासानी मक़ाम हासिल किया, लेकिन आपका क़लम सिर्फ़ एक मख़सूस ज़बान तक महदूद नहीं रहा। आपने कई दीगर ज़बानों में अपना क़लम चलाया, लेकिन आपकी उर्दू तसानीफ़ वाक़ई क़ाबिल-ए-ज़िक्र हैं।
Niyazi may be read as a poet of memories and reveries, fictions and fancies who drew upon them as his basic material. He was a poet of soft notes, audible whispers, and intimate expostulations. His disputes and dissents with life and time are firm, his diction is polite, and his tones of voice echo in hearts rather than heads.
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