Nazir Akbarabadi (1735-1830) was a remarkable Urdu poet who stands out distinct from the romantic or mystic mainstream of medieval Urdu poetry. Nazir was a private tutor by profession and despite tempting offers never made poetry a trade.
Nazir's poetry is at once objective and large-hearted. Absorbed in the zest for life, joys and sorrows are for him only passing shadows on the stage of life. It is this down-to-earth realism and total acceptance of life that makes him relevant to our society today. He adopted a new idiom which was firmly rooted in the soil and had direct link with the masses.
Dr. Mohammad Hasan (b. 1926) is a critic, and playwright. He was the Head of the Department of Urdu, University of Kashmir and a Fellow of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust. He is an author of eighteen books in Urdu and is at present Professor in Urdu, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
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