introuction

  By Emala

Dr Syed Mohammad Nasar Hamid (also known as Khalish) loves writing,playing football and travelling, which he regarded as a means of education.He says- I was born in the year 1940, in a small village Lakhminya for Bihar under Begusarai district. Mine is an ancient village mostly populated by educated muslims, sub-caste syed to which I too belong. I started composing Ghazals when I was a student of class 9th. My mentor had been my eldest brother late S.M. Manzar Hamid 'Gham'. After few years he allowed me to try my hand at different forms of Urdu poetry other than Ghazal without presenting them to him for correction. My first ghazal was published in 'Yaum-e-Jamhuria' number of 'The Sangam' an Urdu daily from Patna in 1956.

 After that His poetic composition was published in almost all leading Urdu journals of the country.He has been regularly called by Urdu Section of All India Radio Patna either to participate in studio Mushaira or to recite Kalam-e-Shair. 

  His simple, sensuous and melodious poems in Urdu, awakened the loving poets of indo-pak to the beauty and capability of  Urdu.He use urdu as a medium of poetic expression and english for his critical writing. 

However, khalish did not immune or ignorant of the vigour and verve of urdu diction and imagery, and combined both into the body of his verse. He thus became the architect of the modern poetic language, which is a skilful blend of  Urdu vocabulary.

Though khalish writes in different types of verse forms - masnavi, qasida, etc., he specialized in ghazals. His ghazals-collection Justajoo Ki Lakeer was published  1996. There are at least four unpublished books on different forms of Urdu poetry including one on Seerat-e-Rasool (P.B.U.H)