Shair

{{Short description|Oldest Urdu-language literary magazine, based in Mumbai, India}}{{Other uses}}

{{Infobox magazine

| title = {{Lang|ur-latn|Shair}}

| category = Literary magazine

| publisher printers =

| editor = Iftikhar Imam Siddiqui

| firstdate = {{start date and age|1930|2|14|df=yes}}

|language = Urdu

| country = India

| website =

}}

{{Lang|ur-latn|Shair}} ({{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq|شاعر}}}}) is the oldest Urdu-language literary magazine, based in Mumbai, India.{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-05-30/india/28197624_1_shair-magazine-poet|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109190842/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-05-30/india/28197624_1_shair-magazine-poet|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 November 2013|title=This mag has preserved all letters to their editors|date=30 May 2009|newspaper=The Times of India|access-date=17 April 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.harmonyindia.org/hdownloads/FEB-2010.pdf|title=Passion for Poetry: Iftikhar Imam Siddiqui keeps an 80-year legacy alive|publisher=Harmony |date=February 2010 |access-date=17 April 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803145340/http://www.harmonyindia.org/hdownloads/FEB-2010.pdf |archive-date=3 August 2016 |url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://khojkhabarnews.com/?p=1814|title=Iftikhar Imam Siddiqi|newspaper=Khoj Khabar News.com|date=22 April 2010|access-date=17 April 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713145430/http://khojkhabarnews.com/?p=1814|archivedate=13 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}{{cite news|url=http://www.urdutimes.in/feature_story.php?catId=1&ID=21&PHPSESSID=6d7f3172677ef4241d542586778d2411|title=اردو کے ادبی گھرانے 'شاعر ' کاایک اورتجرباتی شمارہ|newspaper=The Urdu Times Daily|date=1 September 2007|accessdate=17 April 2012}} It was launched in Agra in 1930 by the famous poet Seemab Akbarabadi. Its editor-in-chief is the poet, writer and journalist Iftikhar Imam Siddiqui, and the assistant editors are his two brothers, Noaman Siddiqui and Hamid Iqbal Siddiqui.

History

{{Lang|ur-latn|Shair}} was founded on 14 February 1930, in Agra, India, by Iftikhar Imam Siddiqui's grandfather Seemab Akbarabadi, with the purpose of providing guidance and a platform to help new poets be published. After the partition of India, Akbarabadi migrated to Pakistan in 1948 and never returned.

Aijaz Siddiqui, the second son of Akbarabadi and the father of Iftikhar Imam Siddiqui, took charge of the magazine. In 1951 he also moved with his family to Mumbai where he continued to publish the {{Lang|ur-latn|Shair}}. After the death of Aijaz Siddiqui, Iftikhar Imam Siddiqui became its editor, who is himself a good poet and good at editing and writing.

{{Lang|ur-latn|Shair}} has introduced many old and new poets and writers. {{Lang|ur-latn|Shair}}'s literary family has been admired and appreciated throughout Urdu literary figures for its best work and efforts.

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