Renowned Urdu poet Bashir Badr dies at 91

Acclaimed Urdu poet and Padma Shri awardee Bashir Badr died in Bhopal on Thursday, PTI quoted his family as saying. He was 91.

Badr was born in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya in 1935 and was believed to have started writing poetry at age seven.

At least seven collections of Badr’s poems have been published in Urdu and one in Hindi, according to PTI. Among his ghazal collections are Ikai, Image, Aamad, Aahat and Kulliyat-e-Bashir Badr.