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Agha Shahid Ali was born on 4 February 1949, in New Delhi in the Union of India, [1] into an illustrious Qizilbashi Agha family from Srinagar, Kashmir, tracing their roots back to Kandahar, Afghanistan. [7] [8] He grew up in Kashmir Valley, and left for the United States in 1976. [9] Shahid's father Agha Ashraf Ali was a renowned educationist.
The Country Without a Post Office is a 1997 collection of poems written by the Kashmiri-American [a] poet Agha Shahid Ali. [2] [3] The title poem, which has become a symbol for freedom, is one of the most famous about Kashmir. In the decades since its publication, under renewed conflict and censorship in the region, it has been cited by ...
The Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali was a proponent of the form, both in English and in other languages; he edited a volume of "real Ghazals in English". Ghazals were also written by Moti Ram Bhatta (1866–1896), the pioneer of Nepali ghazal writing in Nepali . [ 28 ]
Subh-e-Azadi; Subh-e-Azadi (August 1947) by Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Original title: صبح آزادی: Translator: Victor Kiernan, Shiv K. Kumar, Naomi Lazard, Agha Shahid Ali, Ralph Russell, Ludmila Vasilyeva [1]
Manjula Narayan of Hindustan Times wrote: "The form contributes to much of the power of this book that speaks of the pain of fleeing a beloved home, incorporates moving descriptions of rituals specific to the Shaivite Pandits, and weaves in oral histories and snatches of poetry from, among others, Lal Ded and Agha Shahid Ali". [2]
Agha Shahid Ali, (1949-2001) Poet; Amin Kamil (1924-2014), Kashmiri poet & short story writer; Ata ul Haq Qasmi, Urdu-language Poet, playwright and columnist. Basharat Peer (1977– ), author; Bhamaha Poet of kavyalankara; Bilhana, 11th century poet; Chandrakanta (1938– ), novelist and short story writer
Agha Shahid Ali, poet and finalist for National Book Award of United States in 2001; Rafiq Anjum, poet, researcher, poet and critic of Prof. Rahman Rahi; Bashir Bhadarwahi, writer, educationist, poet; Moti Lal Kemmu, Kashmiri writer and social worker; Habba Khatun, 16th-century poet, known as "Nightingale of Kashmir" Lalleshwari, poet-saint
Modern expatriate Indian poets writing in English include Agha Shahid Ali, Sujata Bhatt, Richard Crasta, Yuyutsu Sharma, Tabish Khair and Vikram Seth.