I would like to thank My Grandfather, Late Mr. Gopinath Kaushik, for if it wasn't for his genes and blessings, I don't think I would have ever been attracted to Urdu. It is a language that can be enthralling yet unimaginably complex at times. My writings are a way of saying things that I otherwise wouldn't be able to.
Some of the master Urdu poets that I deeply respect and learn from are Mirza Ghalib, Ustaad Zauq, Bahadurshah Zafar, Kaifi Azmi, Jaan Nisaar Akhtar, Majaz Lucknawi, Jigar Moradabadi and Sahir Ludhianvi and many more.
I'll be constantly updating this page on a regular basis with my work and work of famous Urdu Sho'ara.
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Majaz (pronounced Majaaz), who is sometimes called the Keats of Urdu Poetry wrote Ghazals and Nazms that, if at once place speak of beauty and optimism and wit - create such a feeling of bitter despair that it leaves an ardent fan of Urdu Poetry like me and many others gasping for air. I have [...]
I wrote the first 4 lines of this Nazm last Saturday afternoon while doing some studying. It seemed more like my pen started writing all by itself. Next morning while sipping tea and watching the squirrels eat bread on my balcony, I picked up (or my pen did) from where I had left and ended [...]
I wrote this around Midnight of 12th of August. Just a fleeting Nazm I wrote as a thought passed through my mind. Might need to do some more work on it. Khayaal aur Tasavvuraat bhi are like a puff of wind. Never know when they come, never know when they leave. Comments are welcome.
Here is [...]
I started writing this Nazm one late night last week and finished it couple days later. Hadn’t had time to write anything since Sargoshiyan, which was another ‘past-midnight’ composition. I had no intention of turning this Nazm into a song, but I found a raw tune on my laptop I’d recorded somewhere back in February [...]
Wo Jo Shayar Tha is another superb Nazm by Gulzar Sahab. I have a few of his books, and noted it down a couple months ago. I related to this one very closely and it’s a personal favorite of mine. Enjoy reading.
Romanized form:
Wo jo shayar tha, chup sa rehta tha
Behki behki si baatein karta tha
Ankho [...]
I had been thinking of posting this Nazm by Javed Akhtar for quite some time now and finally decided to put it out this evening. Although it really is a very short and simple Nazm, but there is still something in it, that makes me want to read it over and again. A personal choice [...]
I wrote this revival version couple days after I wrote Sargoshiyan. I’m not sure if I’m using the correct term, but I pretty much revived the same tune in a slower and melancholy way. I guess when it’s time to say Goodbye, I can sing this song. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to record [...]
I scribbled this on the night of June 3rd a few days ago right around midnight. On advice of some friends, I decided to go ahead and record it. Still a few rough edges in there. I called it Sargoshiyan (Whispers) because I believe I did hear some whispers that night. Although what they were, [...]
Here is a Nazm by the Rebel Shayar, Sahir Ludhianvi. A revolutonary Urdu Poet in his own right, he really took the world of Urdu Poetry by storm with his wave of change and ideas that only he could express so artistically. Enjoy this ‘a little hard to understand’, but outstanding Nazm.
Not many people know that the last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar was also an Urdu poet of a very high order and it was during his reign that Urdu Shayri reached its Zenith. As Sanjay Garg outlines in his book, Maqta - Zafar on Zafar, “Zafar’s reign was a golden era of Urdu Ghazal [...]