The Urdu Ghazal Podcast, Season 4 Episode 15--Khaleel-ur Rehman Azmi

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Khaleel-ur Rehman Azmi, a leading Urdu poet and literary critic, was born in 1927. He received his higher education at the Aligarh Muslim University, where he taught Urdu. He was posthumously elevated to the rank of a Professor. He wrote extensively on the progressive writers’ movement and is considered a pioneer of Modernism in Urdu. He mentored the leading British Urdu scholar Ralph Russell and poet Shahryar. He authored nearly a dozen collections of poetry and literary criticism. He passed away in 1978.

His famous couplets include:

Hazaar tarah ki mai pi hazaar tarah ke zahr

Na pyaas hi bujhi apni na hausla nikla