Remembering Rahat Indori: Three writers recite verses by the Urdu poet and star of mushairas
Aamir Aziz, Anukrti Upadhyay and Shivam Sharma commemorate Rahat Indori's life and work by reciting some of his memorable couplets
Rahat Indori, one of the biggest voices of modern-day Urdu poetry and a megastar performer at mushairas, died on eleven August, succumbing to COVID-19 complications.
A former professor and pedagogist of Urdu literature, he had a number of volumes of poetry and Bollywood songs to his credit, featured in motion pictures like Mission Kashmir and Munnabhai MBBS. His most memorable literary achievement, possibly, is the sway he held over his target audience at mushairas and kavi sammelans in India and overseas, due to the fact of his fashion and candour.
"A garrulous, self-effacing performer with a effective voice, he would frequently regale gatherings with anecdotes from his Indore childhood — the idiosyncrasies of Indori diction, plus the signature hyperbolic Indori storytelling fashion knowledgeable his work... Indori’s work had real vary — he had a ghazal for each and every mood, each occasion," wrote Aditya Mani Jha in this piece about the poet's fashion and physique of work.
Most recently, Indori's political writing lent itself to the anti-CAA and NRC protests throughout India, the place his traces "Sabhi ka khoon hai shamil yahaan ki mitti mein, kissi ke baap ka Hindustan thodi hai" from the ghazal 'Agar khilaf hain, hone do' received new popularity.
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