Renowned Urdu poet Bashir Badr has passed away at the age of 91 in Bhopal after a prolonged illness. His wife, Rahat Badr, shared the news on social media saying, 'Bashir Sahib left us… Prayers.'
Badr is survived by his wife and two children. He breathed his last in the room where he used to conduct poetic gatherings.
Born in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh on February 15, 1935, Bashir Badr earned his bachelors and doctorate from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), where he taught Urdu for several years.
He was known for modern Urdu poetry and had written close to 10,000 Urdu poems and published seven collections of ghazals. He was awarded Padma Shri in 1989.
Poet Anjum Barabankvi said, 'Today we lost the greatest poet of the Nayi Ghazal movement in the entire world.'
