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JAVED AKHTAR’S SELECTION OF POEMS BY THE URDU POET KAIFI AZMI
This is a collection of poems by Kaifi Azmi, one of pioneers of the Progressive Writers’ Movement in India, selected by the leading poet, film writer and lyricist of our time, Javed Akhtar, who also happens to be Kaifi’s son-in-law. A trilingual edition with twenty-five nazms that have endured for nearly seven decades, the books will feature the poems in the Urdu and Hindi scripts as also in translation into English. It comes with a heartfelt foreword by Javed Akhtar, which can also be read as an estimation of Kaifi’s life and ‘If Kaifi Sahib has written about workers and peasants, it wasn’t after reading a newspaper editorial but by living among them, trying to solve their issues, embracing their sorrows and difficulties as his own, and sharing in their miseries.’
This is a collection of poems by Kaifi Azmi, one of pioneers of the Progressive Writers’ Movement in India, selected by the leading poet, film writer and lyricist of our time, Javed Akhtar, who also happens to be Kaifi’s son-in-law. A trilingual edition with twenty-five nazms that have endured for nearly seven decades, the books will feature the poems in the Urdu and Hindi scripts as also in translation into English. It comes with a heartfelt foreword by Javed Akhtar, which can also be read as an estimation of Kaifi’s life and ‘If Kaifi Sahib has written about workers and peasants, it wasn’t after reading a newspaper editorial but by living among them, trying to solve their issues, embracing their sorrows and difficulties as his own, and sharing in their miseries.’
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Published February 14, 2022
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