Aijaz Siddiqi
Aijaz (Urdu: اعجاز ) Siddiqi[1] (1911–1978) was an Urdu writer and poet. He was the son of the famous Urdu poet, Seemab Akbarabadi. He was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. After having founded Qasr-ul-Adab in 1923, Seemab Akbarabadi had in the year 1930 started publication of a literary journal in Urdu from Agra titled Shair; he was its first editor. A few years later i.e. in 1935, in order to concentrate on the other than more important activities of Qasr-ul- Adab, he had handed over the charge of this magazine to Aijaz Siddiqi who carrying forward the tradition of his father remained its editor till 1978 long after the publication of Shair was shifted from Agra to Mumbai in 1947[2] and Seemab Akbarabadi had in 1951 died in Karachi. Mahendra Nath, the Urdu short-story writer and younger brother of Krishan Chander had also joined him to compile and edit several special issues of Shair.[3]
In his dress and appearance Aijaz resembled his father.[4] Presently there exist two collections of his poems – 1) Khwaabon ke masiha and 2) Karb e khud kalaami, both published in 1966.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Urdu Authors: Date list corrected up to 31 May 2006- S.No. 141 – Aijaz siddiqi> maintained by National Council for Promotion of Urdu, Govt. of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development "National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language". Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ Languages and literature https://books.google.com/books?id=CAQIAQAAIAAJ
- ^ "Shair" 1969 618p. https://books.google.com/books?id=I_WWNAAACAAJ[permanent dead link]
- ^ Soni, Aditya. "Seemab Akbarabadi - Some impressions". Zimbio. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- ^ http://www.openlibrary.org/OL11294A/Aijaz_Siddiqi[dead link]