Ravish Siddiqi (Urdu: روش صدیقی, 1911–1971)[1][2] born Shahid Aziz at Jwalapur in District Saharanpur of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh on 11 July 1911 was a renowned Urdu Ghazal and Nazm writer whose forte was Romantic Poetry and Patriotic Poetry. A self-educated person he had studied and gained fluency in Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Sanskrit and English.
Ravish Siddiqi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1911 Saharanpur |
| Died | 24 January 1971 (aged 59–60) Shahjahanpur |
| Occupation | Urdu poet |
| Genre | Urdu ghazal, Urdu nazam |
Career
editRavish Siddiqi worked in the All India Radio at the time when Prem Nath Dar, Saghar Nizami and Salaam Machhalishahari were also working in the same institution. Ravish Siddiqi wrote both romantic and patriotic poetry, but most of his widely acclaimed poems were written on the beauty of the Kashmir valley and people of Kashmir, a collection of these poems, called Khayabaan Khayabaan"''' was published in late 1970s. His collection of ghazals titled Mehrab-e-Ghazal was published in 1956.[3]
Death
editHe died in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh on 24 January 1971.
References
edit- ^ Urdu Authors: Date list corrected up to May 31, 2006- S.No. 74 – Ravish Siddiqi > maintained by National Council for Promotion of Urdu, Govt of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development "National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language". Archived from the original on 2013-08-25. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
- ^ Rise of Prose – Ministry of HRD para.2.69 http://www.education.nic.in/cd50years/u/47/3Y/4730Y0303.htm[permanent dead link]
- ^ Urdu Sahitya Kosa by Kamala Nasima 1988 Ed. p.266 https://books.google.com/books?isbn=817055134X
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