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Raghupati Sahay 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri was one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets. He was born in Gorakhpur in a Kayastha family. After a brilliant academic career he was co-opted into teh Provincial Civil Service but resigned and joined Allahabad University as a lecturer in English. It was here he wrote most of his Urdu poetry and his magnum opus Gul-e-Naghma. Of a very sharp intellect, he was also known for his vituperative wit. He died in 1982. The phrase Zaban-e Urdu-e Mualla written in () is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family that developed under mainlyPersian influence in Central and South Asia during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1200-1800). ... Gorakhpur is a city in the eastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. ... KÄyastha or Kayasth is a Indo-Aryan clan (Maha-parivar) who were originally Brahmins of Aryavarta (Vedic India), but eventually came to be regarded in the Kaliyuga as Kshatriyas. ... Allahabad University Logo Allahabad University is an institution of higher learning located in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
One of the leading ghazal poets of the twentieth century, Raghupati Sahay FiraqGorakhpuri, was born in the family on August 28, 1896.
Firaq?s significance as a gahzal poet is because of his fresh thematic contributions to the long-established format of the genre.
Firaq?s ghazal is deeply rooted in the sensuousness that is derived from the admiration of female body and appreciation of all the gorgeous things in life.
He can "talk to himself", "to somebody else", "refer to something" etc. For example FiraqGorakhpuri, whose takhallus is the word for the common theme in Urdu poetry of the state of pining for the beloved, plays on his nome de plume and the word firaq:
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