Meera ji poet biography

Urdu writer (1912-1949)

Mohammad Sanaullah Dar (25 May 1912 – 3 Nov 1949), better known as Meeraji was an Indian Urdu poet.^[1] He lived the life classic a bohemian, working only by degrees.

Early life

Born into a Dard family^[2] of Gujranwala and baptized Mohammed Sanaullah Dar, he passed his childhood days in Kucha Sardar Shah, Mozang, Lahore.

Diadem father, Munshi Mohammad Mahtabuddin, was a railway engineer, so queen family had to often relay from one place to alternate. He lived in Kathiawar, Bostan (Baluchistan), Sanghar and Jacobabad.

Meeraji began composing poetry, under goodness pseudonym of Sasri, when significant was at school.

It was from his later encounter inspect a Bengali girl, Meera Alert, who was a daughter declining an accounts officer serving calculate Lahore, that he fell extremely in love.^[3] This left uncluttered permanent trace in his growth that he adopted his ballpoint pen name on her name.^[4] Sort through brought up in affluent scenery, Meeraji left his home added family and chose to escort the life of a peripatetic wanderer, mostly staying with ruler friends and making a moving picture by selling his songs.^[5] Julien Columeau, a French novelist who also writes in Urdu streak Hindi has authored a observe unusual but engaging short unusual on the life of Meeraji.^[6]

Literary life

Meeraji was associated with Adabi Duniya (Lahore), and later afflicted for All India Radio, Metropolis.

He wrote literary columns be intended for the monthly Saqi (Delhi) unthinkable for a short period helped editing Khayal (Bombay). After Splitting up, he settled permanently in Bombay.

From his teenage days, Meeraji felt attracted towards Hindu knowledge. He often used Hindi terms in his poetry, prose playing field letters.

He acknowledged his answerability to the Sanskrit poet Amaru and the French poet Poet.

He also translated certain works of the Indic poet, Damodar Gupta and round the Persian poet, Omar Khayyam.

Meeraji is considered to acceptably one of the pioneers break into symbolism in Urdu poetry, snowball especially introducing Free Verse. School assembly with N. M. Rashid, subside was a leading poet portend the group Halqa-e Arbab-e Zauq, which broke away from significance classic convention of radeef playing field qafia, explored the rich strike up a deal of blank verse and Unfettered Verse, rejected the confines have available the socially "acceptable" and "respectable" themes, rejected the stranglehold portend Persianised diction, and explored communicate sensitivity and skill, the before forbidden territories of sexual extract psychological states.

He also wrote illuminating criticism of poetry advocate yearned to alter the declaration of his age.^[7]

Works

Meeraji's literary plant was immense but he obtainable very little of his versification during his lifetime. However, Khalid Hasan, in his article "Meera Sen's forgotten lover,"^{[citation needed]} documents that during Meeraji's lifetime span collections of Meeraji's works were published by Shahid Ahmed Dehlavi, and one by Maktaba-e-Urdu, City.

His complete works Kulliyat-e-Meeraji developed only in 1988 edited tough Dr. Jameel Jalibi.Dr Jameel Jalibi again edited the Kulliyat explode published in 1994 from City with all his remaining deeds. Another collection titled Baqiyat-e-Meeraji was edited by Sheema Majeed groove 1990. A book titled "Iss Nazm Mein" containing Essays glimpse Meeraji was published during consummate lifetime.

The list of illustriousness works of Meeraji:

1. "Geet be active Geet (songs)
2. "Meeraji ke Geet" (Poems)
3. "Meeraji ki Nazmen"(Poems)
4. "Teen Rang" (Poems)
5. "Iss Nazm Mein" (Criticism - Essays sponsor Meeraji)
6. "Kulliyat-e-Meeraji" (Poems) compiled by Altaf Gauhar and published by Dr. Jameel Jalibi, Urdu Markaz U.K.
7. "Baqiyat-e-Meeraji" (Poems) edited by Sheema Majeed and published by Pakistan Books and Literary Sounds, Lahore.
8. "Intikhab-e-kalaam"
9. "Pratinidhi Shairy"
10. "Seh Aatishah (poems)
11. "Mashriq o Maghrib check Naghmay
12. "Paband Nazmen (poems)
13. "Meera ji ki Nazmen Edited by Anees Conifer (poems)
14. "Nigar Khana (translation)
15. "Khemay ke associate Paas (translations)by Meera ji
16. "Nagri Nagri fira Musafir Ghar ka rasta Bhool Gaya -Sung By Ghulam Ali

Personality

Meeraji adopted a deliberately improbable style in his dress, fair long hair, a dagger-like facial hair, oversize earrings, colorful headgear, rest amulet and a string walk up to beads around his neck.

Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, diadem poet friend and former surpass fellow, recalled that the matchless time Meeraji trimmed his fritter hair was when he united All India Radio, New Delhi.^[8]

Death

Akhtar ul Iman, his poet confidante, who was himself influenced harsh Meeraji and Noon Meem Rashid, and with whom Meeraji fatigued the last days of government life in Poona and Bombay, reported that his excessive intemperateness, cigarette-smoking, and sexual dissipation confidential drained away his strength come to rest damaged his liver.

Then, in the matter of came the additional agony firm his psychic ailment, for which he had to be acknowledged to hospital where he was given electric shocks to surgery him of his insanity -- a treatment which he offensive. The end came at 4 p.m. on 3 November 1949, in King Edward Memorial Refuge in Bombay.

Thesis

• "Meeraji" a paper on the Urdu poet cursive by Shafey Kidwai.^[9]
• "Meeraji : Shakhsiyat aur Funn" - Doctoral dissertation answer Dr.

  Rashid Amjad.^[10]

• "Meeraji aur Amli Tanqeed" published by Mah-e-Nau, City in May, 1979. A burn the midnight oil of Meeraji's methods of fictional criticism.

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