Hasan Abidi

He was born on 7 July 1929 in Zafarabad, Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh, and educated in Azamgarh and Allahabad (British India) and after the partition of India in 1947, he moved to Pakistan and settled in Karachi in 1948 and associated himself with journalism and writing. Later, Abidi moved to Karachi to work for the Akhbar-e-Khwateen magazine and soon became its editor before moving on to work for Dawn newspaper. == Work ==

His collections of poetry are Navisht-i-Nai (1995), Jareeda (1998) and Farar Hona Huroof ka (2004). He had also translated fellow journalist Eqbal Ahmed's essays into Urdu and written stories and poems for children. Hasan Abidi wrote both ghazals and nazms. He was more in control of his craft in the traditional confines of the ghazal but chose another style and content for his nazms. Most of his nazms are a narrative of the socio-political aspects of the society. He persistently elegizes the changing value system that he finds alien and disconcerting. His collection of poems, Farar Hona Huroof Ka, was published in 2004, by Scheherzade, Karachi. ==Death and legacy==

Hasan Abidi died of a heart attack on 6 September 2005 in Karachi at age 76. He had handed in his latest column the previous evening at his workplace. == See also ==