Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi
Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | 22 May 1906 |
| Died | 27 May 1967 (aged 61) Karachi, Pakistan |
| Religion | Islam |
| Relatives | Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi |
| Senior posting | |
| Awards | Pride of Performance |
| Part of a series on |
| Progressive Writers' Movement |
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Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi (Urdu: شاہد احمد دہلوی; Shāhid Aḥmad Dihlavī; 22 May 1906 - 27 May 1967) was a Pakistani author, editor and translator. He was conferred with the Pride of Performance for his literary services in 1963. He was the grandson of Urdu novel writer and religious reformer Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi.
Biography[]
Shahid Ahmad was born 22 May 1906 in Delhi, British India to Bashiruddin Ahmad Dehlvi, son of Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi in a religious family.[1][2][3][4] In 1930 after completing his education, Dehlvi started the monthly Saqi (ur),[a] a literary magazine.[5] Dehlvi's articles in the monthly Saqi portrayed the vanishing culture of Delhi. He believed that the old Delhi, which was considered a symbol of Indo-Muslim culture, was ruined because of the bloodshed of Independence. Aqeel Abbas Jafari has collected his articles in a book. [3]
Dehlvi also ran the Delhi branch of the Progressive Writers' Association and started a literary journal called Shahjahan devoted to progressive literature.[6]
Dehlvi had interest in classical music and learnt the art under the guidance of Ustad Chand Khan, belonging to Delhi gharana (The Delhi School of Music) and participated in music programmes on All India Radio, by the name of S Ahmad.[3] After that partition of India, he moved to Karachi where he worked for Radio Pakistan.[4]
In 1963, he was conferred with the Pride of Performance award by the Government of Pakistan.[1]
Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi died on 27 May 1967 in Karachi and was buried in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal cemetery.[4][7]
Literary works[]
Shahid's works include:[8]
- Ujra diya
- Chand adbī shak̲h̲ṣiyatain̲
- Bazam-e-khush nafsau
Notes[]
- ^ This magazine, Saqi, was started in January 1930 from Delhi and magazine was stopped functioning in 1967.
References[]
- ^ a b Jafari 2010, p. 272.
- ^ Parekh, Rauf (2008-06-03). "A tale of changing times". Dawn. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c Magazine (2011-06-05). "COLUMN: Shahid Dehlvi — the writer & the musician". Dawn. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c Pakistan 2015.
- ^ Jafari 2010, p. 28.
- ^ Jalil 2014, p. 256.
- ^ Prof. Muhammad Aslam, Khaftagan of Karachi, Pakistan Research Institute, University of the Punjab, Lahore, November 1991, p.132 ( پروفیسر محمد اسلم، خفتگانِ کراچی، ادارہ تحقیقات پاکستان، دانشگاہ پنجاب لاہور، نومبر 1991، ص 132)
- ^ "Books by Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi". WorldCat. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
Cited sources[]
- Jafari, Aqeel Abbas (2010). Pakistan Chronicle (in Urdu). Karachi: Fazlee Sons and Varsa. p. 272. ISBN 978-969-9454-00-4.
- Jalil, Rakhshanda (2014). Liking Progress, Loving Change: A Literary History of the Progressive Writers' Movement in Urdu. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-809673-3.
- Pakistan, Tareekh (2015). "Birth Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi". tareekhepakistan (in Urdu).
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External links[]
- 1906 births
- 1967 deaths
- Urdu-language children's writers
- Pakistani magazine editors
- Urdu-language essayists
- Recipients of the Pride of Performance
- Pakistani Muslims
- Writers from Delhi
- Writers from Karachi
- Urdu-language writers from Pakistan
- Pakistani people of Indian descent