aaj ik aur baras biit gayā us ke baġhair
jis ke hote hue hote the zamāne mere
Muztar Haidari was born Dilawar Hussain. His ancestral home was in Agra but he was born in Calcutta in 1922. He was regarded as a poet of considerable merit among his contemporaries. He also had a mellifluous voice which distinguished him as a poet who could render and receive applause from select audiences among whom he recited his poetry. He published his works in a collection called Jaam-e-Jam and it received favourable response from his readers.
Muztar lived a life of miseries. His poetry bears testimony to all that he suffered and sustained, and expressed with great artistic merit. He died in a mysterious circumstance by drowning in a pond on 14 May 1975.
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