Tribute to the Indian Poet Kaifi Azmi on his 101st Birthday
Introduction Sayyid Athar Hussein Rizvi, well known as Kaifi Azmi . He was born on 14 January 1919. Died on 10th May 2002 (aged 83) Azmi was born into a Shia Muslim family in the village of Mizwaan in Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh, India. Azmi was married to Shaukhat Azmi . Out of that marriage, they have a daughter, Shabana Azmi , and a son Baba Azmi . Azmi's daughter-in-law Tanvi Azmi (wife of Baba Azmi) is also a famous Television actor. Early Life & his Career At the age of eleven, Azmi wrote his very first ghazal ' Itna To Zindagi Mein Kisi Ki Khalal Pade' & he managed to get himself invited to a mushaira, where he recited a ghazal, rather a couplet of the ghazal which was appreciated by the President of the Mushaira, Mani Jaisi, but most of the people, including his father thought he recited his elder brother's ghazal. When his elder brother denied the fact, his father & clerk decided to test his poetic talent. Then, A...
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