The Best of Nasir Kazmi
Syed Nasir Kazmi
Syed Nasir Raza Kazmi, (1925–1972) was a renowned Urdu poet of Pakistan. He was one of the greatest poets of this era, especially in the use of "ista'aaray" and "chhotee beher". Kazmi was born on December 8, 1925 at Ambala in British India.
Kazmi was educated at Ambala, Simla and Lahore.
He returned to Ambala in 1945 and started looking after his ancestral
land. After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, he came to Lahore.
He
did some journalistic work with Auraq-e-Nau as an editor and became
editor-in-chief of the magazine Humayun in 1952. Later he was associated
with Radio Pakistan, Lahore and other literary publications and organizations.
