- Hasan Abidi
Hasan Abidi (
Urdu : حسن عابدی) was a notedPakistan i journalist, writer and a seniorUrdu language poet.Life
He was born on
July 7 ,1929 in Jaunpur, UP, and educated inAzamgarh andAllahabad (India ) and after thepartition of India in 1947, he moved toPakistan and settled inKarachi and associated with journalism and writing. He became president of the Karachi Press Club and held office in both the Karachi Union of Journalist and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists. He was also an active member of the "Irtiqa forum". He died onSeptember 6 ,2005 in Karachi.Work
According to
Yasmeen Hameed , his collections of poetry are Navisht-i-Nai (1995), Jareeda (1998) and Farar Hona Huroof ka (2004). He has also translated Eqbal Ahmed's essays into Urdu and written stories and poems for children. Hasan Abidi writes both ghazals and nazms. He is more in control of his craft in the traditional confines of the ghazal but chooses another style and content for his nazms. Most of his nazms are a narrative of the socio-political aspects of the society. He persistently elegizes the changing value system that he finds alien and disconcerting. His collection of poems, Farar Hona Huroof ka, was published in 2004, by Scheherzade, Karachi.External links
* [http://www.dawn.com/2005/09/07/top14.htm Biographic Sketch by Dawn]
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