Makhdoom mohiuddin biography
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Makhdoom Mohiuddin
Makhdoom Mohiuddin, or Abu Sayed Muhammad Makhdoom Mohiuddin Khudri, (2 February 1908 – 25 August 1969) was an Urdu poet and Marxist political activist of India who founded the Progressive Writers Union in Hyderabad and was active with the Comrades Association and the Communist Party of India, and at the forefront of the 1946–1947 Telangana Rebellion against the Nizam of the erstwhile Hyderabad state.[1]
Biography
[taƴto | taƴto ɗaɗi wiki]Mohiuddin lectured at the City College in 1934 and taught Urdu literature. He was the founder of the Communist Party in Andhra Pradesh and is regarded as a Freedom Fighter of India.[2]
He is best known for his collection of poems entitled Bisat-e-Raqs ("The Dance Floor"), for which he was awarded the 1969 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu. His published works include the essay Tagore and His Poetry, a play, Hosh ke Nakhun ("Unravelling"), an adaptation of Shaw's Widowers' Houses, and a collection of prose essays. Bisat-e-
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Makhdoom Mohiuddin: “Gun of a revolutionary guerrilla & sitar of a musician”
An orphan from the erstwhile Hyderabad province, Makhdoom used to broom mosques and serve devotees in his childhood. The Sahitya Akademi awardee started out as a trade union activist and a college lecturer before framträdande as a revolutionary poet and leader of Communist Party in Andhra Pradesh. He went on to become a member of State’s Legislative Council and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly in the later years of his life.
Hayat le ke chalo, kayenat le ke chalo,
chalo to sare zamane ko saath le ke chalo...
(Let’s walk along with life, lets march with the universe,
When we proceed, let’s take the entire humankind along...)
During his lifetime, Makhdoom was arguably the only poet who was admired by his fellow poets and connoisseurs of Urdu poetry in equal measure. Literary giants like Raghupati Sahai Firaq Gorakhpuri and Faiz Ahmed Faiz wrote poems, appreciating his work. Aap ki yaad aati rah • Aal-e-Ahmad, nom de plume Suroor, is an Urdu critic of the first order. Literary criticism in Urdu before Suroor was more of a pastime than an independent branch of literature. Suroor, along with his compeers, gave it a new orientation and a new respectability, and it is with these contemporaries that Urdu criticism has come of an age. Aal-e-Ahmad was born in 1912 in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh. Badaun is a traditional center for Muslim learning and for centuries has been the home of theologians and poets. Poetry here is not a pursuit, but a way of life. The young Aal-e-Ahmad developed a poetic sensibility and started composing poems when he was still in high school. But because his parents wanted him to be a doctor, he studied science and graduated from the St. John’s College, Agra. Later he studied English literature. After completing his Master’s degree in 1934, he taught English and Urdu at Aligarh for a while and then moved to Lucknow University. In 1955 he was invited t