The Indian school of Persian poetry, especially Bīdel's poetry, is criticized for its complex and implicit meanings, however, it is much welcomed in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and India than in Iran. Iran also sponsored two international conferences on Bīdel. Literary critics Mohammad-Reza Shafiei-Kadkani and Shams Langrudi were instrumental in Bīdel's re-emergence in Iran. Bīdel came back to prominence in Iran in 1980s. He preferred freethought to accepting the established beliefs of his time, siding with the common people and rejecting the clergy who he often saw as corrupt.īīdel is much welcomed in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan. Possibly as a result of being brought up in such a mixed religious environment, Bīdel had considerably more tolerant views than his poetic contemporaries. Both Mirza Ghalib and Iqbal-i Lahori were influenced by him. He is considered one of the prominent poets of Indian School of Poetry in Persian literature, and owns his unique Style in it. He is the author of 16 books of poetry, which contain nearly 147,000 verses and include several masnavi) in that language.
īīdel mostly wrote Ghazal and Rubayee ( quatrain) in Persian, the language of the Royal Court, which he had learned since childhood. Bedil's native language was Bengali, but he also spoke Urdu (then known as rikhta), Sanskrit and Turkic, as well as Persian and Arabic, which he learned in elementary school. The descendants of the family had originally lived in the city of Bukhara in Transoxiana, before moving to India. 1648), a former Turkic soldier who belonged to the Arlas tribe of the Chaghatay. He was the son of the Mirza Abd al-Khaliq (d.
Known to be a rebel and manhandle the authority, Abdul Qadir's top-notch cricketing skills, will be inspirational for many a legspinners to come.Bedil was born in Azimabad (present-day Patna) in India. Known to be a rebel and manhandle the authority, Abdul Qadir's top-notch cricketing skills, will be inspirational for many a legspinners to come.
Legend will have this to say – In a tour match against the visiting Indians, Qadir was hoisted into the stands for four massive sixes by a relatively unknown 17-year old called Sachin Tendulkar. In an era when the Pakistan era boasted of some fiery quicks, Qadir won Pakistan many matches, and in fact became the first Pakistan bowler to take 200 wickets in Test cricket. Such was Qadir’s prolificacy, he set a record for being the first bowler to claim 100 Test wickets in a Pakistani season. A 6-wicket haul in his comeback match at Lord's in 1982, guided Pakistan to register a historic win against England. Qadir mastered the googlies, the flippers, the leg-breaks and the topspins that were almost dormant at the time in the game of cricket. He had an enormous variety of deliveries up his armour. Marking a distinct run-up, Abdul Qadir was a master of the leg-spin delivery. When the world was witnessing the emergence of fast pace bowling, Abdul Qadir rekindled a dying art called leg-spin bowling. It just took two years of first class cricket for a young Abdul Qadir to announce his arrival into international cricket, as he made his Test debut in 1977 against England.