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urdupoetry.com
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Perhaps
the most senior Urdu poet in the subcontinent, Qasmi
sahib has devoted his entire life towards Urdu
literature. For a long time he edited one of the most
prestigious Urdu magazines in Pakistan. Although
better known as a poet who mastered both the
traditional gazal and the modern day nazm, he is also
one of the leading Urdu shorty-story writers as well
as a highly respected critic.
Ahmad
Nadeem Qasimi
With
courtesy of: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Nadeem_Qasimi)
Ahmad
Nadeem Qasmi (Born 20 November 1916 died 10 July 2006)
is an Urdu language Pakistani poet, journalist,
literary critic and short story writer. With some 50
books of poetry, fiction, criticism, journalism and
art to his credit, Qasmi is a major figure in
contemporary Urdu literature.He stands out among his
contemporaries due mainly to his unflinching humanism.
Qasmi is considered second only to Prem Chand in
mastefull depiction of rural culture in Urdu afsana (short
story). Several collections of poetry reveal his love
for humanity in all forms. For the past 40 years, he
has published and edited the prestigious literary
journal "Funoon", which has groomed more
than one generation of new writers.
Nadeem
Qasimi started his career as a clerk in the
government and later on left it for journalism. He is
a graduate from the Punjab University. As an active
member of the Progressive Writers Movement, he once
held the position of secretary and was consequently
arrested many times during 1950s through 70s.
Mr.
Qasmi has, for several decades now, contributed his
weekly columns in national newspapers. "Rawan
Dawan" in daily "Jang" is a classic
example, where he focuses on current issues. At the
formidable age of 90, Nadeem remains the most
committed and likewise reverred of Pakistani writers.
*****
Ahmed
Nadeem Qasmi and his long journey as a writer and
thinker in his career which has spanned many
movements, revolutions, wars and artistic and
cultural changes.
Qasmi
heads the Majlis-e-Tarak-i-Abad, an autonomous body
for the promotion of literature, and he has been in
that post for more than two-and-a-half decades. Well
into his eighties, he is still up with and in tune
with what is happening around him in the literary,
artistic and other fields of his interest. And these
are many as is evident from a life which has been
lived to the full and without any regrets.
The
Progressive Writers Association, of which he became
an integral part, was formed in the thirties and it
soon became the sweeping movement to upstage the then
prevalent themes and formalistic structures. A new
era of realism had dawned. The first group of people
to be inspired ranged from the veteran Prem Chand to
Hasrat Mohani to writers who had just started to
establish themselves, but a younger crop blooded by
the new movement was soon to appear as significant
voices in a chorus. It was not easy to have an
individual voice but the remarkable thing about this
movement was that, despite the unanimity of ideology,
the freshness of the individuality became its
dominant aspect. It had struck the right spot and
unleashed the fountains of creativity among writers
and intellectuals.
Qasmi
was well-grounded in his own ethos and the call for
freedom and the liberation of the masses was rooted
in his own past. For him, Iqbal was a poetical and
intellectual force to be benefitted from rather than
to be challenged, as had been done by some of his
contemporaries, and he was totally drawn into the
feeling of helplessness that the Muslims experienced
after the abolition of the Khilafat in Turkey. He
looked up to the leaders of that movement, and his
first creative outpouring was in the form of a poem
for Muhammad Ali Jauhar in 1931. He was then inspired
by Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali and more so by Zafar
Ali Khan for their simple but rousing verses written
directly for the Muslim community. It was a little
later that he took to writing other forms of
literature. He did eventually scatter himself in
fiction, poetry, plays and journalism – all
served as means to express an irrepressible nature
and still had the energy for political activism. He
had to pay a price of persecution for his words and
actions as it also paved the way for his recognition.
(with
courtesy of: www.getpakistan.com/home/celebrity/qasmi.htm)
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