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Language: (Urdu, Hindi & Roman with English Poetic Translation)
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Doyen of the progressive writer’s movement Josh Malihabadi Dominated the Urdu literary scene of the 20th century Indian sub-continent. Born on December 5, 1898 as Shabbir Hassan Khan in Malihabad near Lucknow he studied at St Peter’s College Agra and passed his senior Cambridge examination in 1914. Josh Subsequently studied Arabic and Persian and in 1918 spent six months at Ravindranath Tagor’s institution at Shantiniketan.

While working as in charge of the translation department of Jamia Osamania Hyderabad Josh wrote a poem against the oppressive Nizam and was exiled from the state Josh then worked for Shalimar film Company in Poona as song writer for about four years.

Josh was known as Shair-e-Inqilab. He also actively involved in the freedom struggle and became close to quite a few of the political leaders of that era specially Jawahar Lal Nehru. His first collection of poems was published under the title to Roo-e-Adab. The collections of his poetry include Shola-o-Shabnam, Junoon-o-Hikmat, Naqsh-o-Nigar, Fikr-o-Nishaat, Sundol-o- Shabnam Harf-o-Hikaayat and sarod-o-Kharosh Josh was editor of Aaj Kal and advisor to the all India Radio. He was honored with the padma Bhushan award in 1954 by the president of India. Josh was concerned with the state of Urdu in independent India and migrated to Pakistan in 1956 but was not well received by the authorities and pro-establishment media of Pakistan for his iconoclastic ideas and socialistic leanings. His autobiography Yadon Ki Baraat was published in 1966. he died on February 22, 1982.

 

Josh Malihabadi (1898-1982)

The birth name of Josh Malihabadi was Shabir Hasan who was born in Malihabad a small plac

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