Niaz Fatehpuri was the pen name of Niyaz Muhammed Khan, a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, and polemicist.
11 Facts About Niaz Fatehpuri
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Niaz Fatehpuri was born in 1884 at Nayi Ghat, Barabanki district, in what is Uttar Pradesh during the British Raj.
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Niaz Fatehpuri was educated at Madrasa Islamia in Fatehpur, Madrasa Alia in Rampur, and Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow.
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Niaz Fatehpuri resigned his post in 1902 as a Police Sub-Inspector after working in this capacity for a couple of years.
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Niaz Fatehpuri was a fiction-writer of repute, whose Urdu short-stories, which are poems in prose, are considered to be on a par with those of Munshi Premchand and find a prominent place in Urdu literature.
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Niaz Fatehpuri was an Urdu poet and critic, and a polemicist who dared to raise his voice against Fundamentalism.
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Niaz Fatehpuri wrote on Urdu literature, on religion and on the many evils affecting the social fabric of India in his time.
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Niaz Fatehpuri has more than two dozen major works to his credit.
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Niaz Fatehpuri was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1962 for his services to Urdu.
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Niaz Fatehpuri died in Karachi, Pakistan on 24 May 1966.
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Niaz Fatehpuri is the father of Sarfaraz Niazi, who has translated Ghalib's poetry into English in two books titled Love Sonnets of Ghalib and The Wine of Passion, both published by Ferozsons, Lahore, Pakistan.