Tilok Chand Mehroom (Urdu: تلوك چند محروم ) was a famous Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 poet of India

India

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Early life

Mehroom was born in Mianwali District

Mianwali District

Mianwali is a district in the northwest of Punjab province, Pakistan. It borders eight districts: Attock District in the north, Chakwal District in the northeast, Khushab District in the east, and Bhakkar District in the south, while Lakki Marwat lies to the west, Kohat and Karak districts to the...

, Punjab

Punjab (British India)

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, India (now Pakistan) into a Hindu

Hindu

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 family. After earning his B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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 he joined, in 1908, the Mission High School at Dera Ismail Khan

Dera Ismail Khan

Dera Ismail Khan is a city in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It is situated on the west bank of the Indus River, west of Lahore and northwest of Multan. The city is the capital of the district and tehsil of the same name. In Pakistan, its name is often abbreviated to D. I...

 as a teacher of English.By the 1940s he was a widely-recognized master of Urdu poetry and was Professor of Urdu Literature at Gordon College, Rawalpindi.His son Jagannath Azad

Jagannath Azad

Jagan Nath Azad was a renowned & respected Urdu poet, writer and academician. A literary giant, Azad penned over 70 books, including poetry collections, epic poems, biographies & travelogues....

 was also a prominent poet and wrote Pakistan's first National Anthem on the request of Mohammed Ali Jinnah. After the partition of India

Partition of India

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, Mehroom and his son were forced to move to Delhi

Delhi

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Poetry

Early in life, after the death of his beloved wife, Mehroom was inspired to write poems reflecting his disenchantment with the ephemerality of life and the instability of relationships. The most famous of these poems is Ashk-e-Hasrat, which is part of his larger collection Toofan-e-Ghum. Tilok Chand Mehroom's first major publication was named Ganj-e-Maani. This publication contained a rich variety of 175 nazm

Nazm

Urdu Nazm is a major part of the Urdu poetry, that is normally written in rhymed verse and also in modern prose style poems. Nazm has many different forms as,* Doha * Geet * Hamd * Hazal * Hijv...

s, besides rubai

Rubai

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es, qasida

Qasida

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s, sehra

Sehra

A Sehra is a headdress worn by the groom during Indian weddings. It has garlands hanging that covers the face of the groom...

s, and noha

Noha

Noha is a genre of Arabic, Persian, or Urdu prose depicting the martyrdom of the Holy Imams. Strictly speaking noha is the sub-parts of Marsia. Nohas are usually poetry expressing the sorrow felt by Shia Muslims for their leaders....

s. Art critics like Niaz Fatehpuri, Muhammad Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal

Sir Muhammad Iqbal , commonly referred to as Allama Iqbal , was a poet and philosopher born in Sialkot, then in the Punjab Province of British India, now in Pakistan...

, Firaq

Firaq Gorakhpuri

Raghupati Sahay , better known under his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri , was a writer, critic, and one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India...

, Kaifi

Kaifi Azmi

Kaifi Azmi was an Indian Urdu poet. He is considered to be one the greatest Urdu poets of 20th century. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jon Eliya and many others he participated in many memorable mushairas of 20th century.-Early life:...

, Josh Malsiani and Ejaz Hussain have admired his poetry.

Famous Works

• Ganj-e-Maani
• Rubaiyat-e-Mehroom
• Karwan-e-Watan
• Nairang-e-Maani
• Shola Nawa
• Aks-e-Jameel