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…
I look out of the window from Abba’s room. The first showers of the monsoon have freshly bathed the trees. The sky is blue, the grass green, the gulmohar resplendent in full bloom. I turn back to look inside the…
His parents wanted him to be a maulvi, but Kaifi Azmi chose protest and hope over God Naresh Nadeem on Kaifi Azmi Kaifi Azmi, one of the last pillars of the progressive tradition in Urdu, died on May 10. Kaifi’s…
Kaifi Azmi was born in 1918 in Azamgarh, UP. His nom-de-plum ‘Azmi’ is derived from his place of birth. His real name is Syed Athar Hussain Rizvi. Kaifi Saheb had his early education in Arabic and Persian in trditional madrasa…
Shabana has just returned from Mijwan full of excitement at the rapid steps of progress Mijwan has taken ….. Namrata Goyal, the 20 year old daughter of Jet Airways owners Naresh and Neeta Goyal has now taken over as President…
He was always different, a fact that didn’t sit too easily on my young shoulders. He didn’t go to ‘office’ or wear the normal trousers and shirt like other ‘respectable’ fathers but chose to wear a white cotton kurta-pyjama 24…
