Rehman Rahi
{{Short description| Kashmiri poet (1925–2023)}}
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| name = Rahman Rahi
| image = The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh presenting the 40th Jnanpith Award to Eminent Kashmiri poet, Shri Rahman Rahi, in New Delhi on November 06, 2008.jpg
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| caption = Rahman Rahi receiving Jnanpith Award in New Delhi
| birth_name = Abdur Rahman Rahi
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|05|06|df=y}}
| birth_place = Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, British Raj
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|01|09|1925|05|06|df=y}}
| death_place = Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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| occupation = Poet, translator, critic
| awards = Sahitya Akademi Award and Padma Shri (2000)
Jnanpith Award (2004)
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Abdur Rehman Rahi ({{langx|ks|رَحمان راہی}}; 6 May 1925 – 9 January 2023) was an Kashmiri poet, translator and critic. He was awarded the Indian Sahitya Akademi Award in 1961 for his poetry collection Nawroz-i-Saba, the Padma Shri in 2000,{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015 | archive-date=15 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }} and India's highest literary award, the Jnanpith Award (for the year 2004) in 2007. He is the first Kashmiri writer to be awarded the Jnanpith, India's highest literary award for his poetic collection Siyah Rood Jaeren Manz (In Black Drizzle). He was honoured with Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2000 by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.[http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/library/fellowship_pdf/Rahman%20Rahi.pdf Rahman Rahi], New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi
Life and career
Born in 1925, Rehman 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.{{Cite journal |last=Raina |first=M.K. |date=2020 |title=Nau Baharich Shaan Paida Kar: An Overview of the Progressive Movement in Kashmir |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26978889 |journal=Social Scientist |volume=48 |issue=7/8 (566-567) |pages=81–100 |jstor=26978889 |issn=0970-0293}} 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.{{Citation needed|date= June 2022}} He was also associated with the Cultural wing of the communist Party of Kashmir during his student days. As translator he did translation of Baba Farid's Sufi poetry to Kashmiri from the 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/11/stories/2007031102961000.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313220356/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/11/stories/2007031102961000.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 March 2007|work=The Hindu|title=Jnanpith is for the Kashmiri language: Rahi|date=11 March 2007}}
Rahi died on 9 January 2023, at the age of 97.[https://kashmirlife.net/rehman-rahi-is-no-more-308050/ Rehman Rahi Is No More]
Published works
Rahi's major works include:http://www.greaterkashmir.com/Home/Newsdetails.asp?newsid=4960&Arch=Arch&issueid=171{{Deadlink|date=March 2020}}
- Sana-Wani Saaz (poems) (1952)
- Sukhok Soda (poems)
- Kalam-e-Rahi (poems)
- Nawroz-i-Saba (poems) (1958)
- Kahwat (literary criticism)
- Kashir Shara Sombran
- Azich Kashir Shayiri
- Kashir Naghmati Shayiri
- Baba Fareed (translation)
- Saba Moallaqat
- Farmove Zartushtadia
References
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External links
- Announcements of the Jnanpith award in [https://web.archive.org/web/20070313220356/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/11/stories/2007031102961000.htm The Hindu], [http://www.indianexpress.com/iep/sunday/story/25332.html Indian Express], and [http://www.greaterkashmir.com/Home/Newsdetails.asp?newsid=4960&Arch=Arch&issueid=171 Greater Kashmir]
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Category:People from Jammu and Kashmir
Category:Recipients of the Jnanpith Award
Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Kashmiri