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Famous Kashmiri writer, poet, Professor Rehman Rahi dies at 97

LCT Desk by LCT Desk
January 10, 2023
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Srinagar, Jan 9: Famous Kashmiri writer and the poet, Professor Rehman Rahi, died at the age of 97 on Monday in Srinagar.
Nimaz-e-Jinazah of the deceased was held near the shrine Khwaja Habibullah Nowshehri (RA), in which people from different sections of society, especially the literary circles took part.
Professor Rahi was the first kashmiri writer awarded by jananpith Award , India’s highest literary award for his poetic collection.
He was a poet, translator and critic. Prof Rahi was awarded the Indian Sahitya Akademi Award in 1961 for his poetry collection Nawroz-i-Saba, the Padma Shri in 2000,and India’s highest literary award, the Jnanpith Award (for the year 2004) in 2007.
Prof Rahi was the first Kashmiri writer to be awarded the Janpith, the India’s highest literary award for his poetic collection Siyah Rood Jaeren Manz (In Black Drizzle).
He was honored with Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2000 by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.
Prof Rahi began his career as a clerk in the Public Works Department of the Government for few months in 1948 and was associated with the Progressive Writers’ Association, of which he became the General Secretary.
He also edited a few issues of Kwang Posh, the literary journal of the Progressive Writer’s Association.
He was later a sub-editor in the Urdu daily Khidmat. He did an M.A. in Persian (1952) and in English (1962) from Jammu and Kashmir University where he taught Persian. He was on the editorial board of the Urdu daily Aajkal in Delhi from 1953 to 1955.
He was also associated with the Cultural wing of communist Party of Kashmir during his student days.
As a translator he did an excellent translation of Baba Farid’s Sufi poetry to Kashmiri from Original Punjabi. Camus and Sartre are some visible effects on his poems while Dina nath Naadim’s influence on his poetry is also visible especially in earlier works.

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