jahāñ insāniyat vahshat ke hāthoñ zab.h hotī ho
jahāñ tazlīl hai jiinā vahāñ behtar hai mar jaanā
haa.e kyā daur-e-zindagī guzrā
vāqiye ho ga.e kahānī se
AMN / NEW DELHI
Noted Urdu poet Pandit Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi passed away today, days after recovering from COVID-19. He was 94
His corona test came negative on June 7 and we brought him home. Today he had lunch and at around 2.30pm he passed away,” his son Anoop Zutshi told media.
“He was quite old, and the infection had left him very weak. So doctors are thinking it was possible a cardiac arrest,” he added.
Gulzar Dehlavi was born on 7 July 1926. He was a great Urdu poet, a celebrated scholar, and journalist. He was honored by the vice president of India on his 91st birthday for his invaluable contribution towards Urdu Poetry.
میں عجب ہوں امام اردو کا ۔بت کدوں میں اذان دیتا ہوں۔۔میں وہ ہندو ہوں کہ نازاں ہے مسلماں جس پر۔۔ دل میں کعبہ ہےمیرے، دل ہے صنم خانوں میں۔۔۔ جوش کا قول ہے اور اپنا عقیدہ ہے گلزار۔ ۔ہم سا کافر نہ اٹھے گا مسلمانوں میں
He is credited with setting up Urdu schools across India. He was born to poet parents in Old Delhi’s Gali Kashmeerian, and Sitaram Market, in the area, is named after his ancestor.
Dehlvi was also associated with the freedom movement since the ’30s, when he was in school, and as he grew up to become a poet, he often attended rallies by Congress.
Gulzar Dehlvi devoted his entire life to the service of Urdu, for which he was felicitated by various prominent personalities.He served as the pioneering editor of the first Urdu science magazine named “Science Ki Dunya,” which was launched in 1975 after the partition of India.
He did his schooling from the Ramjas school and BVJ Sanskrit School. He did his Masters in Arts from Hindu College. His father, Pandit Tribhuvan Nath ‘Zar’ Dehlavi, received the public title of ‘molvi sahib’ for his dedication as a teacher of Urdu and Persian languages at the Delhi University for around 40 years.