POET OF HUMANITY

Life and Works of Anand Narain Mulla

Author by : Zaheer Ali

Aakar Books 2023

Language: English

224 Pages

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About the Book

Anand Narain Mulla is undeniably an important poet of Urdu. The book critiques his poetry whilst appraising his works of prose. Mulla defies categorisation withinwhich most Urdu poets are usually classified. He does not belong to the traditional poets who cling to poetic traditions that had their sway in the nineteenth century. Although many of his poems thematically resonate the kind of poetry popularised by most of the progressives and the prominent critics have also counted him as a progressive poet, in his own estimation he demurs to be exemplified as the poet having correlation with the Progressive Writers Association. Altogether, he has been a bitter critic of the type of poetry forked out by the ostensible modern school. Mulla has been a class in himself who has written insightful poems using all forms and styles which are in existence in Urdu. So far as his ideological standpoint is concerned he venerates all the salubrious, optimistic and positive values which are the characteristics of a humane society. The overriding theme in the poetry and prose of Mulla is humanism. In quite a few of his poems, ghazals and essays, he openly scoffs at the divisive standards that are prescribed by almost all religions. Instead he uphold humanity as the core value that alone can tie up all the human beings together and as a consequence dispense with almost all the tribulations that exasperate our existence. Human values are cherished by almost all the Urdu poets but for Mulla humanity is an article of faith on which he never compromises. The book encompasses a detailed analysis of Mulla’s works of poetry and prose.

Zaheer Ali
Zaheer Ali is a Mumbai-based academician, free-lance journalist and social activist. Starting his career as a research investigator in a project on socio-political consciousness among Muslims in India undertaken by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, he worked for a year with a monthly magazine, Secular Democracy, in New Delhi. Subsequently, he began teaching Political Science, first in Aurangabad and later retiring as Head of the Department of Political Science, I.Y. College, Mumbai.

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