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Shaukat Kaifi (21 October 1926 – 22 November 2019), also credited as Shaukat Azmi, was an Indian theater and film actress. Her husband was the Urdu poet and film lyricist, Kaifi Azmi . The couple were leading lights of the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) and the Progressive Writers Association (IWA), which were the cultural ...
Born in a Zamindar family in Mijwan, Azamgarh, Kaifi Azmi wrote his first ghazal 'Itna to zindagi mein kisi ki khalal pade' at the age of eleven.
tere qadmon mein hai firdaus-e-tamaddun ki bahaar. teri nazron pe hai tahzib o taraqqi ka madar. teri aaghosh hai gahwara-e-nafs-o-kirdar. ta-ba-kai gird tere wahm o tayyun ka hisar. kaund kar majlis-e-KHalwat se nikalna hai tujhe. uTh meri jaan mere sath hi chalna hai tujhe. tu ki be-jaan khilaunon se bahal jati hai.
Kaifi Azmi was a rare poet who practiced what he preached. A brain hemorrhage on 8th February 1973 paralysed him and rendered his left hand and left leg incapacitated for life. Instead of giving up in despair he decided to leave the comforts of Bombay and settle in Mijwan the tiny village in Azamgarh Eastern UP in which he was born.
May 24, 2002 · Kaifi Azmi, 1919-2002. THE last of the titans of progressive Urdu poetry has fallen. Kaifi Azmi, who died on May 10, 2002 at the age of 83, belonged to the pantheon of socially and politically committed shayirs that rose in the mid-1930s and consisted of the now legendary Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Majaz, Sahir Ludhiyanvi, Makhdoom Muhiuddin, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Josh Malihabadi, Majrooh Sultanpuri and Ali ...
Kaifi Azmi was a rare poet who practiced what he preached. A brain hemorrhage on 8th February 1973 paralysed him and rendered his left hand and left leg incapacitated for life. Instead of giving up in despair he decided to leave the comforts of Bombay and settle in Mijwan the tiny village in Azamgarh Eastern UP in which he was born.
Kaifi Azmi belonged to Progressive Writers Movement about which much has been written. He was a poet of distinction and according to Ranjit Hoskote ( he challenged) the demons of injustice, bigotry and exploitation in a series of collections including Jhankar, Akhir e Shab, Awara Sajde and Sarmaya.
