Obaidullah Aleem
Obaidullah Aleem ( Urdu : عبیدالله علیم, born June 12, 1939 in Bhopal , † May 18, 1998 in Karachi ) was a Urdu-speaking poet. He is considered one of the best ghazal viewed -Lyriker the modern era.
Aleem was born in 1939 in Bhopal in what was then British India ; his father was a member of the Bhat family. He studied Urdu at the University of Karachi and worked as a TV and radio director until 1967. In 1970 he married Nigar Yasmin and a few years before his death he had a second marriage with Tehseen Fatima. Aleem published the first collection of poems, Chand Chehra Sitara Ankhen, in 1974 . He was then chairman of the Pakistan Television Corporation until 1978, when he was forced to resign because of an instruction against him. His book of poems received the Adamji Prize , the highest literary prize in Pakistan .
In 1982 Obaidullah Aleem wrote an article by Khurshid Misaal Shakhs in memory of Mirza Nasir Ahmad , the recently deceased caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community . His second collection of poems, entitled Viran Saray Ka Diya , was published in 1986. In the 1990s, Aleem came to London several times to visit the then Caliph Mirza Tahir Ahmad . In March 1997 he suffered a serious heart attack in Punjab , after which he was treated for a few days at the Fazl-e-omar hospital in Rabwah . Aleem spent his last days in Nazimabad, a suburb of Karachi. There he died of another heart attack on June 18, 1998.
bibliography
- Chand chehra sitara ankhhen . (1974)
- Viran saray ka diya ´. (1986)
- Yei Zindagi Hey Hamari , (Selected Poems)
- Men Khhuli Huwi Ik Sachai .
- Chiragh Jaltey Hen: The Unpublished Poetry of Obaidullah Aleem . (Facsimile signature edition edited by Rehan Qayoom, 2014)
Web links
- Aleemsarmad's channel. Youtube Video (Aleems Ghasels sung by various singers)
- Urdu Poet Obaidullah Aleem and his ghazal.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.poemhunter.com/obaidullah-aleem/
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.poemhunter.com/obaidullah-aleem/poems/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aleem, Obaidullah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian-Pakistani poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bhopal |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1998 |
| Place of death | Karachi |