Ghair ki basti hai kab tak dar-badar maara phurinĪi Gham-e-Dil kya karun, Ai Vahshat-e-Dil kya karun. Shahar ki raat aur main naashaad o nakara phirun Chugtai asked him, “Liquor or wine, who destroyed your life, Majaz?” Witty and humorous as always, he replied, “I have given this right to both of them.”
Truly, Majaz had a failed love life, and the dejection got him admitted to a mental asylum at Ranchi. Himanshu Bajpai, Daastango, who has rendered several daastans on Majaz, recalls one incident: “Once, Ismat Chugtai told Majaz that girls love him and Majaz quickly replied, ‘And they marry a rich person’.”ĪLSO READ | Sex worker-turned-author basks in glory of Kerala film award They would commit to keeping ‘Majaz’ as the name of their children. At AMU, girls used to keep his book ‘ Aahang’ beneath their pillows. Majaz’s popularity rose by leaps and bounds and there were more females than males among his admirers. Majaz gave his alma mater a famous nazm, which is now the university tarana (anthem). The audience was mesmerised the silence established that Majaz had arrived on the scene. During one of the mushairas, Majaz, dressed in sherwani, delivered his famous poem:Įk Lapakta ho Shola ho, Ek Chalti Hui Talwar Hoon Main. His fame came when he reached AMU as a student where he got the company of literary legends as Ali Sardar Jafri, Ismat Chugtai, and others. At a young age, Majaz had an inclination towards Urdu poetry. ALSO READ | Anthology of author Ruskin Bond’s works releasedīorn in Rudauli (then in Barabanki, UP) during Diwali celebrations, he was named Asrarul Haque and later took up the name ‘Majaz Lakhnavi’.
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