{"id":3775,"date":"2012-02-13T14:32:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T19:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/forum\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2012-02-13T17:11:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T22:11:28","slug":"noted-urdu-poet-shahryar-dies-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/noted-urdu-poet-shahryar-dies-at-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Noted Urdu poet Shahryar dies at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"shahryar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frontlineonnet.com\/fl2722\/images\/20101105272209401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" \/>Noted Urdu poet and Jnanpith awardee Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, who shot to fame for penning Ghazals in Bollywood classics like &#8216;Umrao Jaan&#8217;, passed away in Aligarh on Monday after a protracted illness at the age of 76.<\/p>\n<p>The poet, better known by his pseudonym Shahryar, is survived by his two sons and a daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Khan, who also won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1987, was one of the most celebrated writers of Ghazals and Nazm in Urdu language.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Aonla town in Bareilly district on June 19, 1936, Khan pursued his higher education at Aligarh Muslim University, before obtaining a PhD and joining the university&#8217;s faculty in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>He retired as the Chairman of the university&#8217;s Urdu department in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Khan drew national fame as a lyricist for the words he penned in films like &#8216;Gaman&#8217;, &#8216;Umrao Jaan&#8217; and &#8216;Anjuman&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson of AMU, the poet will be laid to rest at the University&#8217;s graveyard tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ibnlive.in.com\/news\/aligarh-noted-urdu-poet-shahryar-dies-at-76\/229932-3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted Urdu poet and Jnanpith awardee Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, who shot to fame for penning Ghazals in Bollywood classics like &#8216;Umrao Jaan&#8217;, passed away in Aligarh on Monday after a protracted illness at the age of 76. The poet, better known by his pseudonym Shahryar, is survived by his two sons and a daughter. Khan, who also won the Sahitya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1031,1029,1030],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}