Zahid Abrol

Vijay Kumar Abrol, better known by his pen name Zahid Abrol, is an Indian Urdu poet who did the first Urdu translation of the 12th century Sufi-poet Baba Farid's shlokas and shabads.^[1]

Poetic career

Andha Khuda was his first collection published in 1978 followed by Ek Saf-ha Purnam in 1986. His later publication is the poetic translated version, Faridnama, exhibits the original Gurmukhi version, its Roman transcript, Urdu translation in verse in Urdu and Devnagari scripts in a well produced volume and has won accolades from experts. This way he has reproduced tributes paid to Sheikh Baba Farid's poetry in all the three languages.^[2]

Publications

Andha Khuda – Jalandhar, Deepak Publishers , 1978
Ek Saf-ha Purnam – Hoshiarpur, Charvak Publications, 1986
Faridnama - Poetical Translation of Shiekh Farid's Punjabi Verses in Urdu and Hindi Scripts -[Delhi, Ajanta Books International, ISBN 978-81-202-0587-1, 2003^[3]^[4]
Darya Darya Sahil Sahil - Urdu Ghazals in Urdu and Hindi separately, 2014/2015
Khwabon Ke Ped Taley - Urdu Nazams in Urdu and Hindi separately, 2016
A Three-Step Journey - Poetic translations of Zahid Abrol's selected Urdu Poetry into English by Dr. Lalit Mohan Sharma, 2016

References

^ Tanvir Siddiqui (29 April 2004). "Not lost in translation: This bank official is well-versed in poetry". The Indian Express. India.^{[dead link]}
^ Khushwant Singh (17 January 2004). "Farid was the first to use Punjabi in poetry". The Tribune. India.
^ "Fariduddin_Ganjshakar".
^ "University of Chicago Library; Author: Zahid Abrol".^{[permanent dead link]}

[1] Tanvir Siddiqui (29 April 2004). "Not lost in translation: This bank official is well-versed in poetry". The Indian Express. India.^{[dead link]}

[2] Khushwant Singh (17 January 2004). "Farid was the first to use Punjabi in poetry". The Tribune. India.

[3] "Fariduddin_Ganjshakar".

[4] "University of Chicago Library; Author: Zahid Abrol".^{[permanent dead link]}

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