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Kaifi Azmi: Not just a Shayar. (BBC Hindi)

साल था 1947. भारत की आज़ादी का साल. हैदराबाद के एक मुशाएरे में जब कैफ़ी आज़मी अपनी एक नज़्म सुना रहे थे तो उसे सुनाने के उनके अंदाज़ ने एक हसीना को किसी और के साथ अपनी मंगनी तोड़ने के…

Congratulations! Kaifinama won Best Documentary Audience Choice/Poll Award

A big Congratulations!! Kaifinama won Best Documentary Audience Choice/Poll Award last night at the DCSAFF. Through out weekend people keep coming to us and telling us how beautiful the poetic film and recital by Shabana Azmi and Sumantro ji was,…

Kaifinama in 4 International Film Festivals

We are delighted to announce that Kaifinama a 90 minute documentary on the life and works of Kaifi Azmi has been selected for 4 international film festivals. Here are the details. Washington DC https://dcsaff.com/opening-night-2019/ Chicago https://www.eventbrite.com/e/csaff-feature-kaifinama-ticket… Seattle https://tsaff.tasveer.org/2019/events/kaifinama Sunday 29th September 5:30…

Remembering Kaifi Azmi, the poet of hope

In today’s climate, it is important to remember people who used their art as an instrument of social change: it was with these words that actor and activist Shabana Azmi prefaced her tribute to the life and work of her…

Jessica Sequeira reviews Kaifiyat: Verses on Love and Women by Kaifi Azmi

In honour of the one hundredth birthday celebrations of the Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi, Indian writer and translator Rakhshanda Jalil has put together what her publisher calls a “curatorial” selection of Azmi’s lyrics and nazms (poems composed around a theme…

Bazm 2019: A Tribute to Janaab Kaifi Azmi on his Birth Centenary

I, Ameeta Parsuram ‘Meeta’, have been organizing BAZM: Jashn-e-Ghazal, since 2009, in the capital of India. Bazm is successful because Dilliwallas love this event….Ghazal lovers of Delhi look forward to it because this event is aimed at preserving traditional Ghazal…