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Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish

Mughal Urdu language poet

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name	Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish
image	Haider Ali Aatish.jpg
caption	Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish
pseudonym	Aatish
birth_date
death_date
occupation	Urdu poet
language	Urdu
period	Mughal India
genre	Ghazal
notable_works	Kulliyat-e-Khwaja Haider Ali Atish
Deewan-e-Aatish

Deewan-e-Aatish Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish (1764 –1846) of Lucknow was an Urdu poet. Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish Lakhnawi is one of the giants of Urdu literature. Aatish and Imam Baksh Nasikh were contemporary poets whose rivalry is well known. Both had hundreds of disciples. The era of Aatish-Nasikh was a golden era for Urdu poetry in Lucknow. Aatish is mostly known for his ghazals, and for his amazing and different style of poetry.

Life

His ancestors had moved from Delhi to Lucknow. His focus on subjective experience, examining how people retain dignity in suffering, set him apart from other Luckhnavi ghazal writers like Nasikh, who emphasised the technical aspects of Ghazal writing. He also wrote poems in the Khamariyyat tradition, to protest the ills of the feudal society.

It is also said that Aatish belonged to Faizabad, his father had died early during his childhood, but his deep instinctive taste of poetry gave Aatish easy access to the court of Nawab Mohammed Taqi Khan Taraqqi who took him to Lucknow. In Lucknow he became a disciple of Mushafi, an important poet of the Lucknow school. Soon after the death of Nasikh, Aatish stopped writing poetry. Some critics rank him after Mir and Ghalib.

Pandit Dayashankar Nasim was a student of Aatish.

Works

Kulliyat-e-Khwaja Haider Ali Atish
Deewan-e-Aatish

References

Amresh Datta. (1987). "The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature Vol.1". Sahitya Akademi.
(1995). "Urdu Ghazals: An Anthology". Sterling Publishers.
(2001). "Ali Sardar Jafri". Bharatiya Jnanpith.
"kulliyat-e-aatish".
"deewan-e-aatish".

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