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Monday, February 20, 2012

Ravish Siddiqui; a Renowned Urdu Poet

Ravish Siddiqui(1911-1971) (Urdu: روش صدیقی), born Shahid Aziz (Urdu: شاہد عزیز) at Jawalapur in District Saharanpur of Uttar Pradesh was a renowned Urdu Ghazal and Nazm writer whose forte was Romantic Poetry and Patriotic Poetry. 

A self-educated person he had studied and gained fluency in Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Sanskrit and English. 

Ravish Siddiqi worked in the All India Radio at the time when Prem Nath Dar, Saghar Nizami and Salaam Machhlishahari were also working in the same institution. 

His collection of ghazals titled Mehrab-e-Ghazal was published in 1956.


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