The kind of audience Kaifi Aur Main appeals to are romantics, fans of my father’s songs, of his poetry. All these are integral to the language the book was written in. It wouldn’t be fair to bring it back in…
Dear Shabana, The new website for your father, I call it new because it is different from before, is absolutely fantastic. It’s rare I almost becomes speechless, words like respect, fantastic, amazing, etc. does not cover the feelings I have…
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 1998 by Yogesh Pawar You mention `socialism’ and his gnarled face lights up. “It can never die,” says the octogenarian poet, Kaifi Azmi, on whom the Maharashtra government has decided to confer the Dnyaneshwar award, this year.…
It is a qawwali that was originally written by Kaifi Sahab’s dear friend Comrade Munish Narayan Saxena on Shaukat and Kaifi’s 25th wedding anniversary. On their 50th anniversary Javed Akhtar kept the Mukhda and wrote a satirical qawwali that was sung by…
Great authors have immense compassion in their hearts, sometimes far more than what they share or reveal through their writings. Even in severe adversity, they never turn bitter, instead exhibit a profound capacity to understand ‘conflicts’ which help lay bare…
The passing away of Kaifi Azmi represents the slow disappearance of a liberal humanism that was able to achieve a straightforward, passionate, unassailable manifestation in poetry. How would I, an English language poet and one separated from Kaifi Azmi by…
