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…
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…
One Hundred Years of Kaifi Azmi – Indian Cultural Forum
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…
Kaifi Sahab’s 17th Death Anniversary at his Mijwan Village
Mijwan has given tribute to Late Kaifi Sahab. It was a good gathering there. Amongst the Guests, Mr. Hashim Khan (NRI Guest), Surendra Yadav & Jai Kishan Pandey were present. (https://cozumelparks.com) Program was conducted by Jitendra Kumar Mishra. Nazm was presented…
Film on Kaifi Azmi launches with UK world premiere
A documentary film produced by actor Shabana Azmi to mark the birth centenary year of her father Kaifi Azmi launched with a world premiere screening at the UK Asian Film Festival in London on Sunday. ‘Kaifinama‘ traces the life of…
Kaifi Azmi Lived What he Wrote – Javed Akhtar
Renowned poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar said here on Saturday that Kaifi Azmi, the great Urdu poet and lyricist, lived a life that mirrored his writings. Speaking at the second and concluding day of the Dehradun Poetry Festival, Akhtar said…
Kaifi Azmi – a ‘maulvi’ who turned to music and Marx
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,…