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Imdad Husain Ghazals
Dr. Imdad Husain (1911- ?)
Dr. Imdad Husain (1911- ?)
penned the famous modern Urdu ghazal:
Dil e Muztar ko samjhaayaa bohat hai
sung to perfection by Farida Khanum during the early 1990s via Pakistan Television broadcasts.
Dr. Imdad Husain completed his PhD in English Literature in 1934 from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He worked under the late Sir Herbert Grierson and Professor Geofrey Bullough. Dr. Imdad Husain's PhD thesis entitled “The Oriental Elements in English Poetry from 1784-1859” is available online at Era Edinburgh University web site.
After returning to British India in 1935, Dr. Imdad Husain started his career as a Lecturer of English Literature at the post-graduate level at the famed Government College, Lahore and taught there for many years.
After the partition of British India in 1947, Dr. Imdad Husain joined the Ministry of Education, Government of Pakistan and was posted as Educational and Cultural Attache in the Pakistani Consulate Generals/Embassies in Washington D.C. USA as well as in London, UK. He later became Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Punjab University and also served as a Member of the Public Service Commission of Pakistan.
After his retirement he published a book entitled “An Introduction to the Poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz” in 1989 via Vanguard Books, Lahore. He also wrote articles on cultural matters in newspapers and magazines.
The Vanguard Books description about Dr. Imdad Husain's 1989 book on Faiz's poetry states:
FAIZ AHMED FAIZ (1911-1984), poet, teacher, editor, freedom- fighter, dramatist, critic, progressive writer and Lenin Peace Prize recipient, was the author of eight collections of poems in Urdu and is considered one of the great poets of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. He was no mere ‘dreamer of dreams’. Great poets like Faiz are warriors and act as the conscience their times. Countries have frontiers but the war against slavery and exploitation has no frontier. Faiz espoused the cause of freedom in Pakistan, and for the peoples of the world. He ranks with poets like Pablo Neruda, Nizam Hikmat and Louis Aragon. His poetry, rich with the classical blood of Ghalib and Iqbal, acquired a characteristic hue and he excelled in both the nazm and ghazal form, blazing a trail of love and revolution. This is the first English language study to be published anywhere of the poetry of Faiz and a critical appreciation of his life and times.
Dr. Imdad Husain's wife Mrs. Haseena Imdad Husain was the daughter of Qazi Zahoor Hussain, Chief Engineer Railways in the pre partition days. When Dr. Imdad Husain was the Educational Attaché under Ambassador M. A. H. Ispahani in the Pakistan Embassy in Washington DC, USA, Mrs. Haseen Imdad Husain entered a Beauty Contest and was one of the finalists at the United Nations Ball in 1948 as shown in a picture uploaded to Flickr by Ghulam Nabi Kazi.
Pakistani TV actress Seemi Raheel is the granddaughter of Mrs. Haseena Imdad Husain and TV and Film actress Mehreen Raheel is the grand granddaughter of Mrs. Haseena Imdad Husain. Dareechah has sent a Facebook Messenger message to Mr. G. N. Kazi on 3rd October, 2021 to ask if Dr. Imdad Husain ever published a collection of his Urdu ghazals. A search at Urdu literary web site Rekhta did not lead to any results/hits for Imdad Husain ghazals.
- Dil e Muztar ko samjhaya Ghazal Imdad Husain Singer: Farida Khanum دل ِ مضطر کو سمجھایا بہت ہے
- Dr. Imdad Husain (1911- ?) penned the famous modern Urdu ghazal Dil e Muztar ko samjhaayaa bohat hai sung to perfection by Farida Khanum during the early 1990s via Pakistan Television broadcasts.
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