long story of Majaz's short life
Majaz is my favorite poet and his sweet words invited me into the beautiful world of Urdu poetry.
Pages from long story of Majaz's short life at exhibition
New Delhi | December 05, 2005 8:42:05 PM IST
Fifty years after the tragic end of Majaz, who has earned the sobriquet of the Keats of Urdu poetry, his relatives rue that they could not value the man and the artist in him in his life because of established values of those days.
Some glimpses into the long story of the famous Urdu poet's short life were today provided at an exhibition organised here by the Jamia Millia on his 50th death anniversary.
''Frustrations in personal life and resulting emotional crisis led Majaz to drown his worries in excessive drinking, which overshadowed the merits in the man, mainly because of the prevailing rigid values of the society of the day, '' said a tearful Hameeda Salim, one of the younger sisters of Majaz, after going through the exhibition.
Rare manuscripts of his works, including an unpublished ghazal, and photographs and other material relating to his early life in his home town of Rudauli, and then his student days in Aligarh, his progress as a poet and frustrations of his later life and resulting mental breakdowns are on display in the two-day exhibition inaugurated here today.
Majaz was a sensitive and innocent person. He wanted to share his experince of beauty and joy with others, said Salim and Javed Akhtar, famous lyricist, poet and nephew of Hameeda and Majaz.
He was a revolutionary poet and those whom he adresses in his poetry are young people. The new ideas are combined with ease with the subtleties and beauty of the classical poetry, they said.
To those so far unfamiliar with Majaz's poetry, the material at the exhibition provides enough specimen of that.
''Ab iske baad Subh hai aur Subh-e-no, Hamin par Khatm hai Sham-e-ghariban likhna'' (Night is only my share of life, after me there will only morning, a morning with a new light and message).
The couplet is written as an epitaph on the grave of Majaz in Lucknow, a photograph of which is displayed at the exhibition.
Majaz, who was born in 1911 and was called the 'Keats of Urdu poetry' for his celebration of all that is beautiful, had died on the night of December five after the famous Mushaira in the Gangaram memorial hall at Lucknow.
The exhibition displays one of his unpublished ghazal in celebration of beauty-- ''Husn ek kaif-e-javedani hai, aur jo kuch bhi hai woh fani hai,''( a thing of beauty is a source of perennial joy, all else is mortal).
While praising the efforts made by Jamia Millia, the organisers of the seminar, Javed Akhtar said more was needed to be done to conserve the objects related to the life and art of poets like Majaz.
''It was unfortunate that there was no memorial for this poet.Having a memorial just for Ghalib is not enough. In western countries, even the houses only visited by their great poets have been turned into a memorial, but here, the places where Majaz was born, lived and died stand neglected, '' he said In fact there was the need of setting up a museum of for preserving things relating to the life and works of Hindi and Urdu poets, he said.
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=182244&cat=India
read more about Majaz's life:
http://www.urdustan.com/adeeb/shaayar/majaz.htm
Pages from long story of Majaz's short life at exhibition
New Delhi | December 05, 2005 8:42:05 PM IST
Fifty years after the tragic end of Majaz, who has earned the sobriquet of the Keats of Urdu poetry, his relatives rue that they could not value the man and the artist in him in his life because of established values of those days.
Some glimpses into the long story of the famous Urdu poet's short life were today provided at an exhibition organised here by the Jamia Millia on his 50th death anniversary.
''Frustrations in personal life and resulting emotional crisis led Majaz to drown his worries in excessive drinking, which overshadowed the merits in the man, mainly because of the prevailing rigid values of the society of the day, '' said a tearful Hameeda Salim, one of the younger sisters of Majaz, after going through the exhibition.
Rare manuscripts of his works, including an unpublished ghazal, and photographs and other material relating to his early life in his home town of Rudauli, and then his student days in Aligarh, his progress as a poet and frustrations of his later life and resulting mental breakdowns are on display in the two-day exhibition inaugurated here today.
Majaz was a sensitive and innocent person. He wanted to share his experince of beauty and joy with others, said Salim and Javed Akhtar, famous lyricist, poet and nephew of Hameeda and Majaz.
He was a revolutionary poet and those whom he adresses in his poetry are young people. The new ideas are combined with ease with the subtleties and beauty of the classical poetry, they said.
To those so far unfamiliar with Majaz's poetry, the material at the exhibition provides enough specimen of that.
''Ab iske baad Subh hai aur Subh-e-no, Hamin par Khatm hai Sham-e-ghariban likhna'' (Night is only my share of life, after me there will only morning, a morning with a new light and message).
The couplet is written as an epitaph on the grave of Majaz in Lucknow, a photograph of which is displayed at the exhibition.
Majaz, who was born in 1911 and was called the 'Keats of Urdu poetry' for his celebration of all that is beautiful, had died on the night of December five after the famous Mushaira in the Gangaram memorial hall at Lucknow.
The exhibition displays one of his unpublished ghazal in celebration of beauty-- ''Husn ek kaif-e-javedani hai, aur jo kuch bhi hai woh fani hai,''( a thing of beauty is a source of perennial joy, all else is mortal).
While praising the efforts made by Jamia Millia, the organisers of the seminar, Javed Akhtar said more was needed to be done to conserve the objects related to the life and art of poets like Majaz.
''It was unfortunate that there was no memorial for this poet.Having a memorial just for Ghalib is not enough. In western countries, even the houses only visited by their great poets have been turned into a memorial, but here, the places where Majaz was born, lived and died stand neglected, '' he said In fact there was the need of setting up a museum of for preserving things relating to the life and works of Hindi and Urdu poets, he said.
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=182244&cat=India
read more about Majaz's life:
http://www.urdustan.com/adeeb/shaayar/majaz.htm
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