Kar chale ham fida jaan-o-tan saathiyo Ab tumhare hawale watan saathiyo (Consecrating our lives to our land, we leave (for war), our land is now in your care, friends…). There could be no greater tribute to offer than to quote…
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…
As young people Shaukat and Kaifi fall desperately in love with each other but are soon parted. For Shaukat’s family, a card-holding communist, a poet with no source of income, is hardly the kind of person their daughter should be…
Ali Sardar Jafri being already involved with PWA, introduced Kaifi to Sajjad Zaheer and other stalwarts of PWA and they become de facto official poets of Leftist Movement in India, along with Sahir Ludhiyanvi .
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…
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…
