The Urdu Ghazal Podcast--Season 4 Episode 13, Shahid Kabir

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Shahid Kabir was born in May 1932 in Nagpur. He started writing short stories and ghazals early and earned fame and name recognition after he began writing for films. In 1957, he authored a play about the life of Mirza Ghalib that was staged at Rastrapati Bhawan. His books include Kachchi Deewaarein (Novel, 1958) and ghazal collections such as Charon-or (1968) and Mitti Ka Makan (1979). He was honored by the Maharashtra State Urdu Academy. He passed away in May 2001.

Jagjit and Chitra Singh have sung Shahid Kabir’s ghazals, including the more famous one:

Niind se aankh khuli hai abhi dekha kya hai

Dekh lena abhi kuchh der mein duniya kya hai