Meeraji

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Meeraji
BornMohammad Sanaullah Dar
25 May 1912 (1912-05-25)
Progressive Writers Association

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

Early life

Born into a Kashmiri family

Baluchistan), Sanghar and Jacobabad
.

Meeraji began composing poetry, under the pseudonym of Sasri, when he was at school. It was from his later encounter with a

Bengali girl, Meera Sen, who was a daughter of an accounts officer serving in Lahore, that he fell deeply in love.[3] This left a permanent trace in his life that he adopted his pen name on her name.[4] Though brought up in affluent surroundings, Meeraji left his home and family and chose to lead the life of a homeless wanderer, mostly staying with his friends and making a living by selling his songs.[5] Julien Columeau, a French novelist who also writes in Urdu and Hindi has authored a very unusual but engaging short novel on the life of Meeraji.[6]

Literary life

Meeraji was associated with Adabi Duniya (Lahore), and later worked for

Bombay
.

From his teenage days, Meeraji felt attracted towards

Persian poet, Omar Khayyam
.

Meeraji is considered to be one of the pioneers of symbolism in Urdu poetry, and especially introducing

Free Verse, rejected the confines of the socially "acceptable" and "respectable" themes, rejected the stranglehold of Persianised diction, and explored with sensitivity and skill, the hitherto forbidden territories of sexual and psychological states. He also wrote illuminating criticism of poetry and yearned to alter the expression of his age.[7]

Works

Meeraji's literary output was immense but he published very little of his poetry during his lifetime. However,

Jameel Jalibi
.Dr Jameel Jalibi again edited the Kulliyat and published in 1994 from Lahore with all his remaining works. Another collection titled Baqiyat-e-Meeraji was edited by Sheema Majeed in 1990. A book titled "Iss Nazm Mein" containing Essays of Meeraji was published during his lifetime.

The list of the works of Meeraji:

  1. "Geet he Geet (songs)
  2. "Meeraji ke Geet" (Poems)
  3. "Meeraji ki Nazmen"(Poems)
  4. "Teen Rang" (Poems)
  5. "Iss Nazm Mein" (Criticism - Essays of 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 ke Naghmay
  12. "Paband Nazmen (poems)
  13. "Meera ji ki Nazmen Edited by Anees Nagi (poems)
  14. "Nigar Khana (translation)
  15. "Khemay ke aas Paas (translations)by Meera ji
  16. "Nagri Nagri fira Musafir Ghar ka rasta Bhool Gaya -Sung By Ghulam Ali

Personality

Meeraji adopted a deliberately outlandish style in his dress, sporting long hair, a dagger-like mustache, oversize earrings, colorful headgear, an amulet and a string of beads around his neck.

Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, his poet friend and former class fellow, recalled that the only time Meeraji trimmed his long hair was when he joined All India Radio, New Delhi.[8]

Death

Poona and Bombay, reported that his excessive drinking, cigarette-smoking, and sexual dissipation had drained away his strength and damaged his liver. Then, there came the additional agony of his psychic ailment, for which he had to be admitted to hospital where he was given electric shocks to cure him of his insanity -- a treatment which he dreaded. The end came at 4 p.m. on 3 November 1949, in King Edward Memorial Hospital
in Bombay.

Thesis

See also

References

  1. ^ Miraji. Baidar Bakht. Columbia University.
  2. OCLC 46785363
    .
  3. ^ Malik Ram (1977). Zia Fatehabadi - Shakhs aur Shair. Delhi: Ilmi Majlis. p. 116.
  4. ^ "Meeraji – poet with a difference". Dawn. 7 August 2002. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  5. ^ Urdustan: Meeraji
  6. ^ Aaj Shumara Number - 71. Rekhta.
  7. OCLC 179140690
    .
  8. ^ Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi (1983). Zaviyaha e nigaah. New Delhi: Bazm e Seemab.
  9. OCLC 56719977
    .
  10. ^ A critical appraisal of the personality and art of Meeraji. http://www.sherosokhan.com/id828.html Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
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