“Uthh meri jaan! Mere saath hi chalna hai tujhe…” Kaifi Azmi
The book ‘Kaifiyat’ contains a luminous translation of
Kaifi Azmi’s verses beautifully done by the translator Rakhshanda Jalil. The book is a collection of Kaifi Azmi’s poems on the themes of love and women. The book begins with a foreword by Shabana Azmi talking about his every detail of life, his mannerisms, personality as a man and as a writer as well.
I quote her: “He never treated his work as special. Even when he came back from from a song recording, he never brought the cassette back home. A far cry from young lyricists today, who subject all their guests to their latest song, goading them to say ‘Wah-Wah!’ He never actually puts pen to paper till the night of the deadline. Then there is a furious cleaning of drawers, numerous letters that get replied to, a number of inconsequential things that get attended to. I’m sure the creative process is occurring simultaneously over the radio blaring, children laughing, children’s friends over, taash going on in the house.” The luminous collection of Kaifi Azmi’s verses are wrapped up even more beautifully by the moving foreword by his daughter, Shabana Azmi and an afterword by his wife, Shaukat Azmi.
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