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22 January, 2000 , } YX Sahitya Akademi J&K Academy of Art, Culture and languages invite you to Amin Kamil min Kamil, alongwith Dinanath Nadim and Rehman Rahi, constitutes the trinity of Kashmiri poets who ushered in a new era in Kashmiri literature in the post-Mahjoor period. They have been true renaissance figures. Their influence on contemporary Kashmiri literature goes to the extent of defining it. Kamil was born in 1924 at Kaprin, a village in South Kashmir. He graduated in Arts from the Punjab University and took his degree in Law from the Aligarh Muslim University. He joined the Bar in 1947 and continued to practise Law till 1949, when he was appointed a Lecturer in Sri Pratap College, Srinagar. He was closely associated with the writers” movement of that time and under its influence switched over from Urdu to Kashmiri as his medium of expression. He joined the State Cultural Academy when it was set up in 1958 and was appointed the Convenor for Kashmiri language. He later became Editor for Kashmiri and edited the two journals of the Cultural Academy — Sheeraza and Son Adab with distinction for many years. He retired from the service of the Cultural Academy in 1979. Kamil, besides being an eminent poet and the foremost. exponent of Kashmiri Ghazal, has also written short stories and a novel besides works of literary criticism. He has also written a number of plays and musicals for the radio. His critically edited collection of Sufi poetry (Suft Shair, 3 vols., 1964-65) remains a definitive text and has been widely acclaimed. He has also edited the collected verse of Nund Rishi, and that of Habba Khatoon. With Dina Nath Nadim and G.R. Santosh With Qurratulain Hyder In 1958 appeared his Gatt Manza Gaash (Light amidst darkness} that, was inspired by the well-known observation of Mahatma Gandhi in the context of the aftermath of the partition of the Indian sub- continent in 1947, that in the midst of darkness prevailing everywhere he had found a ray of light in Kashmir alone. Kamil has attempted to provide this concept with blood and bone which, of course, is a highly exacting task. The heroine Fatima, an educated young Muslim maiden of a distant village, working as a school teacher in Baramulla, the scene of carnage committed by the tribal invaders, prefers to be known as the widow of Ramkrishan, an ugly and illiterate Hindu, who had given his life to protect her honour. It is the only Kashmiri novel that is based on historical events. With the arrival of Gati manza gaash, it may be said, the novel Kashmiri. Kamil is a master of the came to stay in Kashmiri Ghazal and has been instrumental in fashioning it into an entity distinct from its Urdu and Persian counter- parts, His poetry is marked by freshness of sensibility maturity of expression and striking technical innovation which together give him a diction uniquely his own. Kamil has also given us some memorable poems in the Nazm form Kamil edited an independent. jour’ for some time. As a critic he al - Naeb - Receiving Sakitva Akademi Award by President of India Dr, Zakir Husain in 1967

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