1. Shahid Kabir was an Urdu language poet and writer from Maharashtra, India.
12 Facts About Shahid Kabir
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Shahid Kabir was an active writer from 1952, writing poetry, short stories and articles.
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Shahid Kabir was recognised by the Maharashtra State Urdu Academy.
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Shahid Kabir's ghazals have been sung by several Indian singers including Jagjit Singh, Chitra Singh, Hariharan, Chandan Dass, Munni Begum Shishir Parkhie and Sabri brothers.
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Shahid Kabir completed his Bachelor of Arts at Junior College, Nagpur, with Urdu as one of his subjects.
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Shahid Kabir married Akhtar Kabir in 1960, with whom he had three daughters; Seema, Almas and Shiraza; and four sons; Khalid, Sajid, Faraz and Sameer.
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In 1950, Shahid Kabir worked in the Food and Marketing Department of the central government in Delhi, where he met other poets such as Ali Sardar Jafri, Zuber Rizvi and Naresh Kumar Shad.
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Shahid Kabir was influenced by their work and started to write his own poems.
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In 1957, Shahid Kabir was the Screenwriter for the drama Mirza Ghalib presented in the Fine Arts Drama Competition at Rastrapati Bhawan, New Delhi.
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Shahid Kabir served as member of the Nagpur University Board of Studies for the Urdu language from 1991 to 1995.
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Shahid Kabir established the link between the Reevayati shayari and the Jadid shayari.
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Shahid Kabir's poems have been included in Urdu textbooks in India's 12th standard curriculum as prescribed by the Maharashtra State Board of Education.