Nida Fazli

Nida Fazli
(born Muqtida Hasan Nida Fazli; 12 October 1938) is an Indian Urdu poet.

Nida Fazli was born in Delhi, India and attended school in Gwalior. His father was an Urdu poet. During the Partition of India his parents migrated to Pakistan, but Fazli decided to stay in India.

Nida Fazli, while he was young, passed a Hindu temple where a bhajan singer was singing a composition of Surdas about Radha sharing her sorrow with her maids at being separated from her beloved Krishna. The poetic beauty of the Pad, relating to the close rapport and bonding between human beings, inspired Nida to begin writing poems.

"Hum laboN se keh naa paaye, unse haal-e-dil kabhi,

Aur wo samjhe nahiN, ye khamoshi kya cheez hai''

My lips were never able to express the state of my heart

And she failed to understand what my silence meant

- Nida Fazli : Film Sarfarosh

Nida Fazli is a poet of various moods and to him the creative sentiment and inner urge are the sources of poetry. He thinks that the feeling of a poet is similar to an artist: like a painter or a musician

Nida Fazli disagrees with the partition of India and has spoken out against the communal riots, politicians and fundamentalism. During the riots of December 1992 he had to take shelter in his friend’s house due to security concerns.

He has been honoured with the National Harmony Award for writing on communal harmony. He has 24 books to his credit in Urdu, Hindi and Gujarati— some of which are assigned as school textbooks in Maharashtra. He received the Mir Taqi Mir award for his autobiographical novel Deewaron Ke Bich from the Government of M.P.His best known works are: Mor Naach, Ham Qadam, and Safar Me Dhoop To Hogi.

List of works Poetry collection
Lafzon ke phool
Mor Naach
Aankh aur Khwab ke Darmiyaan
Safar mein dhoop to hogi
khoya hua sa kuch

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