Ravish Siddiqi

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Ravish Siddiqi
Born1911
Saharanpur
Died24 January 1971(1971-01-24) (aged 59–60)
Shahjahanpur
OccupationUrdu poet
GenreUrdu ghazal, Urdu nazam

Ravish Siddiqi (Urdu: روش صدیقی‎, 1911-1971)[1][2] born Shahid Aziz at in District Saharanpur of Uttar Pradesh on 11 July 1911 was a renowned Urdu Ghazal and Nazm writer whose forte was Romantic Poetry and . A self-educated person he had studied and gained fluency in Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Sanskrit and English.

Career[]

Ravish 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[]

He died in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh on 24 January 1971.

References[]

  1. ^ 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 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-08-25. Retrieved 2011-05-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Rise of Prose – para.2.69 http://www.education.nic.in/cd50years/u/47/3Y/4730Y0303.htm[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Urdu Sahitya Kosa by Kamala Nasima 1988 Ed. p.266 https://books.google.com/books?isbn=817055134X


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