![]() ![]() This had angered many old-fashioned critics and litterateurs.Īs if all this was not enough, during his visit to India in 1967, Josh gave an interview to a Mumbai English newspaper. As a poet, he was not in favour of writing old-fashioned ghazals, though Josh himself was a semi-romantic and wrote ghazals, too. His poetry against the British India government as well as against capitalists and capitalism had won him the title ‘Shaer-i-inqilab’, or the poet of revolution. While serving in the princely state of Deccan, Josh wrote a poem criticising the Nizam, the ruler of the princely state, and was promptly dismissed and exiled. As a student, he was expelled from Aligarh’s MAO College for his indiscipline. Josh’s irreverent open-mindedness and his unconventional views had earned him the wrath of the orthodox segments. Josh had already been beset with some controversy and his autobiography only added to his reputation of being an iconoclast and a ‘rebel’. YAADON ki baraat, an autobiography by Josh Maleehabadi (1898-1982), first appeared in 1970 and it created quite a stir. ![]()
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