User:Ghufranraghib

Chass College, Chass VBU | period        = | genre         = Ghazal, Nazm,Urdu/Hindi,| subject       =| movement      =Neo-Progressive Writers' Movement | partner       =| relatives     =| influences    = Ghalib, AllamaIqbal Karl Marx Syed MirHasan YousufSaleemChishti, FaizAhmmadFaiz etc.| signature     =| signature_alt =| website       =| portaldisp    =}}  Ghufran Raghib (Urdu: غفران راغب; February 07, 1978-) Member of some Literaryand Cultural Group an Society one of the young poets of the Urdu languagefrom State of India. A rising figureand notable member of the Neo-Progressive Writers' Movement (NPWM), Ghufrais an avowed Marxist-communist, He is, nevertheless,inspired by South Asia's Sufi traditions. ==Biography=====Early Life and education===Ghufran Raghibwis born in asmall Town, Bokaro located near by Dhanbad (a city near distance from Ranchi), Jharkhand   to theparents Raziahmad Khan and mother Rahmati Begum. GhufranRaghib hailed from annon-academic and Sufi family, where a company of local Sufi and SocialActivists were usually be at his home which met on a annual basis to promotethe Cultural and literacy movement in his native province. His father was agovernment employee and a learned man, a self-taught person, and an autodidact. Although his family was a devoted Islampractitioner, but Ghufraniss brought upon to secular mode .Following the Muslim South Asian tradition, his family directed him to studyIslamic studies at the local Madarsa to be oriented to the basics of religiousstudies by Maulvi and Maulana and learned Arabic, Persian, Urdu language and the Quran. Gghufran was broughtup as Orthodox Muslim, saw himself as an agnostic , though a devotedmember of Muslim society. His father later pulled him out fromMadarsa, to get some contemporary education as he wanted his son to follow thefoot steps of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, sending him to attend the College.Ghufran got admission in a local college Momin College managed and run by thelocal educated people and family for academic education and after Intermediatehe joined Ranvijay College of Bokaro for intermediate studyand graduation. At there, his most influential professors were Professor Humayun Ashraf who taught Urdue. In 1995,Ghufran attained his B.A. with Honors inUrdu language, under the supervision of Professor Humayun Ashraf. In 1999,Ghufran joined the post-graduate programme of the JNU, obtaining M.A. in Urdu literature in 1999. ===Academia and literacy=== In 1996, Ghufran joined a literacymovement, in  Bokaro and was apointedits first secretary by the fellow Poets and Started writing poetry and and alsodevoted for human welfare cause. Ghufran was among a good friends of poet SlamNaiyer. Firstly he choose as his poetic teacher a famous poet of IndiaGhyasAnjumthet he consulted to Nawakhamzapuri and ZaheerGhazipuri also. Now adays he do not take Islaah from any Ustaad. Throughout his life, his poetryaddress basic feelings and oppressions, Ghufran himself never compromise on hisprinciples despite being threatened by the right-wing   Ghufran's writingsare comparatively new verse form in Urdu poetry based on Western models assimilating the modern Urdu with the classical. Ghufranused more and more demands for the development of socialism in the society,finding socialism the only solution of country's problems. Ghufran is concernedwith more broader socialists ideas, using Urdu poetry and theater for the causeand expansion of socialism in the country. ===Sufism===  Ghufran is an avowed supporter of Sufism. He had close relations with several Sufi saints of this time. He isa favourite of ShaMadaar, a Sufi of hisvillage and Makanpur, KhwajaMoinuddin and other renowned sufis. hebelive that [Sufis] are the real comrades.Ghufran was never accused of Atheism. ===Major literary works=== *Pyaarpatthar*Shaadazimabadi and His ContemporaryGhazals*Thought and cultur in Urdu Ghazal in thefirst half of 20th century  ==Famous Plays and dramatic Presentation byGhufran==*KabiraKhada Bazar Mein*Spartacus by BadalSircar.*Waseem by SharmisthaSaha*RUR by KarelČapek*Tipu by H. S.Shivaprakash*Galilio by Brecht    ==External links==  غفران راغب  اردو
 * name          =Ghufran Raghib غفران راغب | image         =profile picture 2.jpg| image_size    =| alt           =| caption       =Ghufran Ragghib| pseudonym     =| birth_name    =Ghufran AhmadKhan| birth_date=February 7, 1978 | birth_place= BGH Bokaro, Bokaro,Bokaro District | occupation    = Urdu poet,Theater Activist,journalist| language     =English Persian Urdu Hindi| nationality   = | ethnicity     = North Indian | citizenship   = India | education     = Urduliterature B.A. (Hons),  M.A. Theater and Performance Studies Ph. D. | alma_mater    = Ranvijay SCollege