Jigar moradabadi urdu poetry
Urdu poetry 2 lines.
Jigar Moradabadi was the nom de plume used by an award winning Indian poet who is best known for his ghazal poetry written in the Urdu language. This is a specialised form of poetry which consists of a refrain and rhyming couplets, with each line sharing the same meter.
He was born Ali Sikandar on the 6th April 1890 in the Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh.
Jigar moradabadi urdu poetry
His early years were not easy, having lost his father when he was still very young. He was a bright boy though and learned the Persian and Arabic languages at school, as well as being taught how to construct poetry by a teacher named Rasa Rampuri.
His education in general though was sparse and he did not have the chance to go to university. As he grew older he adopted the first name Jigar and used his place of origin as a surname, thus becoming known as Jigar Moradabadi from then on as his fame as a poet developed.
He moved to a place called Gonda which is near Lucknow and struck up an influential friendship with