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Josh Malihabadi was born as Shabbir
Hasan Khan on 5th December, 1898 at Malihabad. He did his senior Cambridge from
St. Peter's College, Agra in 1914. In 1918, he spent about six months at
Shantiniketan. He studied Arabic and Persian. Due to the death of his father,
Bashir Ahmed Khan, in 1916, Josh was unable to avail of a college education.
In 1925, Josh started work at the
Osmania University, supervising translation work. He was exiled from the state
of Hyderabad for writing a nazm against the Nizam. He then started the
newsletter/magazine called the 'Kaleem' in which he openly wrote articles in
favour of independence and against the British. Soon, he was being called "shaayar-e-inquilaab".
He also got actively involved in the freedom struggle and became close to quite
a few of the political leaders of that era, specially Jawahar Lal Nehru
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chaa.Nd ke intazaar me.n taare
kisane vaadaa kiyaa hai aane kaa
husn dekho Gariib Khaane kaa
ruuh ko aaiinaa dikhaate hai.n
dar-o-diivaar muskuraate hai.n
aaj ghar, ghar banaa hai pahalii baar
dil me.n hai Khush saliiqagii bedaar
jamaa samaa.N hai aish-o-ishrat kaa
Khauf dil me.n fareb-e-qismet kaa
soz-e-qalb-e-kaliim aa.Nko.n me.n
ashk-e-ummiid-o-biim aa.Nkho.n me.n
chashm-bar-raah-e-shauq ke maare
chaa.Nd ke intazaar me.n taare
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