Gulzar Dehlvi turns 82
Renowned Urdu poet Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi has turned 82 and a function was organised to mark the event at Daryaganj in Delhi.
The veteran poet was felicitated for his services to the Urdu world. Former UP Minister Zafar Ali Naqvi, Syed Shahid Mehdi, Khwaja Ahmad Nizami, Matin Amrohvi and a host of Urdu writers were present.
Recalling Gulzar’s contribution, Nazmi Sikandarabadi said that after partition, he continued the tradition of Urdu poetry, mushairas and ‘nashists’ (literarty meets) in Delhi, and in process groomed hundreds of poets.
Gulzar’s association Anjuman Tamir-e-Urdu has completed sixty years and is probably the most active literary organisation in Urdu. Aslam Javed recalled his 50 year long association with the Anjuman but regretted that after the bulldozers moved in around Jama Masjid during the emergency, an entire culture was killed. ‘Not every thing can be learnt in class rooms and traditions like mushairas and nashists enrich the society as a whole’.
Gulzar Dehlvi is one of foremost Urdu poets alive today. I have not read him much but have been watching him a lot in ‘mushairas’ broadcast on ETV-Urdu.His felicity with language, particularly Urdu oetry’s metaphor as was prevalent about seventy-eighty years ago, is amazing. I wish him many more years of mushairas.
Arun Kumar Nigam
October 4, 2007
he is realy one of the lovong and most admirable urdu poet i came accross through.
umair
October 15, 2007
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wasi
November 16, 2007
gulzar anand zutshi is an excellent urdu poet.
the one who is superlatively great.
Taufeeq
April 22, 2009
Gulzar sahab is the emient shayar….
Tariq Zia Khan
May 14, 2009