Blue-black ink tip of your fountain pen’s nib etches words on your sepia notebook – lines outliving the instrument itself. Ink slow fills the belly of your pens, its capillary pressure coursing through the gold nib, the unseen veins parting…
Raag Shayari: A musical tribute to Kaifi Azmi on his birth centenary 8th May, 6 pm on Youtube A rare program featuring Ustad Zakir Hussain, Javed Akhtar, Shankar Mahadevan, Shabana Azmi – Directed by Feroz Abbas Khan, Production Design Anuradha…
One Hundred Years of Kaifi Azmi With two poems by Kaifi Azmi Husain Mir Ali Kaifi Azmi: Poems | Nazms is an homage to Kaifi Azmi’s centenary birth year. The book, edited by Sudeep Sen, is a specially curated volume that…
I was born in a slave India, grew up in an independent India and would like to die in a socialist India. This dream of eminent Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi took a serious beating, like many of his contemporary idealists,…
SM Mehdi was a playwright, author, journalist and critic. As a young man he was drawn to the Communist party, and was a student leader in Kanpur and Lucknow. He worked with the Urdu cell of the Communist party in…
Shabana Azmi talks about her father, Kaifi Azmi and the unforgettable love letter he wrote to her mother.
शबाना आज़मी एक जानी मानी अभिनेत्री हैं, गीतकार जावेद अख़्तर की पत्नी हैं और शायर जाँ निसार अख़्तर की बहू हैं लेकिन इससे भी पहले वह प्रगतिशील उर्दू के अज़ीम शायर और कवि कैफ़ी आज़मी की पुत्री हैं। वो कैफ़ी…
कैफ़ी आज़मी…..गुज़रे ज़माने के एक ऐसे शायर….जिनके लिखे फ़िल्मी तरानों की खुशबू आज भी फ़िज़ाओं में महकती है….गुज़रे ज़माने के एक ऐसे शायर….जिनके लिखे फ़िल्मी तरानों की खुशबू आज भी फ़िज़ाओं में महकती है….। नर्म नाजुक लफ़्जों से सजे हिंदी…
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…
