Thursday, March 28, 2024

Topic: Rahat Indori

Indian Rumis and the shadows of anti-Muslim violence

Recently, while the discussion around demuslimization of Maulana Rumi was gaining momentum, I was going through a collection of poetry of Dr. Bashir Badr, it suddenly stuck with me how we often reduce him to romantic poetry, taking cue from Maulana Rumi’s romanticization. Dr. Badr was born in Babri Masjid’s Faizabad, now Ayodhya, is a poet bearing the trauma of Anti-Muslim Meerut violence.

Noted Urdu poet Rahat Indori dies in Indore hospital

Noted Urdu poet Dr. Rahat Indori died following a massive heart attack on Tuesday, a day after he was admitted to a hospital upon testing COVID-19 positive.