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{{Short description|Indian writer of Urdu literature (1920–2015)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Kalim Ajiz
| image = Kalim Ahmed Ajiz.jpeg
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| birth_date = 1920
| birth_place = [[Telhara, Nalanda district|Telhara]], [[Nalanda district]], [[Bihar and Orissa Province]] (present-day [[Bihar]], India)
| death_date = {{Circa}}{{death date and age|2015|02|14|1920|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Hazaribagh]], Jharkhand, India
| restingplace = Rajabazar, Samanpura, Patna district, Bihar, India
| restingplacecoordinates = {{Coord|25.13348|N|85.105371|E}}
| othername =
| occupation = Urdu poet
| alma_mater = [[Patna University]]
| yearsactive =
| known for = Ghazals
| spouse =
| notable_works = 'Wo Jo Shayri Ka Sabab Huwa' (from the book: Evolution of Urdu Literature in Bihar)
| domesticpartner =
| children =
| parents =
| awards = [[Padma Shri]] Award in Literature & Education (1989)
}}
'''Kalim Ahmed Ajiz''' (1920 – {{Circa}} 14 February 2015<ref name=MG>{{Cite news|title=KALEEM “AAJIZ” obituary|url=https://www.milligazette.com/news/1-community-news/11924-kaleem-aajiz/ |date=17 March 2015|access-date=2025-01-27|newspaper=The Milli Gazette newspaper|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240714193108/https://www.milligazette.com/news/1-community-news/11924-kaleem-aajiz/|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 July 2024}}</ref>) was an Indian writer of [[Urdu literature]] and a [[poet]]. He was an academic and the chairman of the Urdu Advisory Committee of the [[Government of Bihar]]. He served the [[Urdu language]] all his life and was widely considered a classical poet of the school of poet [[Mir Taqi Mir]]. He received the [[Padma Shri]] award in literature and education by the [[Government of India]] in 1989.

==Awards and recognition==
He was a recipient of the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] from the [[Government of India]] in 1989.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf|title=Padma Shri Awards List (!954 - 2013) (read under the year 1989)|publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India website|date=2015 |access-date=27 January 2025|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf|archive-date=15 October 2015}}</ref><ref name=MG/><ref name="Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more" />

==Early life and career==
Kalim Ajiz was born in 1920 at [[Telhara, Nalanda district]], a small village in [[Nalanda district]] of the Indian state of [[Bihar]]. He secured his graduate and master's degrees in [[Urdu literature|Urdu]] from [[Patna University]] after which he obtained his doctoral degree in 1965.<ref name=MG/><ref name="Kaleem Ajiz speaks about poetic career">{{cite news|url=http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20140812214391| title=Kaleem Ajiz speaks about poetic career|newspaper=Saudi Gazette newspaper|date=2 July 2015|access-date=27 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924123831/http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20140812214391|archive-date=24 September 2015|author=Muhammad Mujahid Syed|url-status=dead}}</ref> His doctoral thesis, ''Evolution of Urdu Literature in Bihar'',<ref name=MG/> has since been published as a book.<ref name="Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more">{{cite web| url=https://twocircles.net/2015feb16/1424027188.html#.VZVGqfmSxAB | title=Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more |website=TwoCircles.net website|date=16 February 2015|access-date=27 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703114406/https://twocircles.net/2015feb16/1424027188.html#.VZZ1i-DP1qa|archive-date=3 July 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Aajiz continued his association with Patna University by joining the institution as a member of its [[Urdu]] language faculty.<ref name=MG/><ref name="Legendary Urdu poet Dr Kalim Aajiz passes away">{{cite news|url=http://muslimmirror.com/eng/legendry-urdu-poet-dr-kalim-ajiz-passes-away/ |title=Legendary Urdu poet Dr Kalim Ajiz passes away|newspaper=Muslim Mirror newspaper|date=16 February 2015|access-date=27 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703172004/http://muslimmirror.com/eng/legendry-urdu-poet-dr-kalim-ajiz-passes-away/ |archive-date=3 July 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> and retired as a professor of the department.<ref name="Dr. Ajiz">{{cite web|url=http://urduyouthforum.org/biography/biography-Kaleem-Ajiz.html|title=Profile of Kalim Ajiz|website=Urdu Youth Forum (Bihar, India)|date=2015|access-date=27 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321072534/http://urduyouthforum.org/biography/biography-Kaleem-Ajiz.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 March 2015}}</ref> After retirement, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Urdu Advisory Committee, [[Government of Bihar]], a post he held till his death.<ref name="Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more" />

Aajiz began writing poems at the age of 17 and started appearing in [[mushaira]]s from 1949.<ref name="Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more" /> His first book of ghazals was published in 1976 and the book was released at [[Vigyan Bhawan]] by the then President of India, [[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]].<ref name="Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more" /> This was followed by several publications such as ''Jub Fasle Baharan Aai Thi'' (When the spring arrived),<ref name="Kaleem Ajiz speaks about poetic career" /> ''Woh Jo Shayri Ka Sabab Hua'', ''Jab Fasl Bahar Aayei Thi'' and ''Jahan Khushboo Hi Khusboo Thi''.<ref name="Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more" /> His mushairas have been hosted in many places including Dallas, US.<ref name="Urdu Mushaira held in Dallas">{{cite web|url=https://www.geo.tv/article-169906-Urdu-Mushaira-held-in-Dallas|title=Urdu Mushaira held in Dallas |website=Geo TV News website|date=26 December 2014|author=Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904152803/https://www.geo.tv/latest/77016-urdu-mushaira-held-in-dallas|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 September 2017|access-date=27 January 2025}}</ref>

==Publications==
Kalim Ajiz was an author of more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, essays, travelogue and autobiography.<ref name=MG/>
Kalim's literary works include:<ref>{{cite web |title=Kalīm Aḥmad ʻĀjiz 1924-2015 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84074283/ |publisher=WorldCat |access-date=22 February 2023}}</ref>
* ''Abhī sun lo mujh se''
* ''Daftar-i gum gashtah : Bihār men̲ Urdū shāʻirī kā irtiqā''
* ''Dil se jo bāta nikalī g̲h̲azal ho gayi'' (selection of poetry in Hindi)/ edited by Mohd. Zakir Hussain, Vani Prakashan Publisher, New Delhi; 1st edition (1 January 2014)
* ''Jab faṣl-i bahārān̲ āʼī thī'' (When the spring arrived) (1976)<ref name=MG/><ref name="Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more" />
* ''Jahan Khushboo Hi Khushboo Thi'' (Where There Was Plenty of Fragrance)<ref name="Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more" />
* ''Kūcah-yi jānān̲ jānān̲''
* ''Majlis-i Adab ''
* '''Vuh jo shāʻirī kā sabab huʻā '' (wrote this book of poetry after seeing deaths of 22 members of his immediate family during the communal riots of 1947 [[Partition of India]]).<ref name=MG/><ref name="Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more" />

==Death and legacy==
Aajiz, who had four sons and two daughters,<ref name=MG/><ref name="Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more" /> died on 14 February 2015 at [[Hazaribagh]] in [[Jharkhand]], at the age of 94.<ref name="Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more" /> After the funeral at [[Gandhi Maidan|Gandhi Maidan, Patna]] which was attended to by thousands of people. He was buried at [[Telhara, Nalanda district|Telhara]], his native place.<ref name="Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more" />

[[Firaq Gorakhpuri]], another Urdu poet, sent him a message while lying on his deathbed in 1982, in which he respectfully said that he felt jealous of Kalim Aajiz due to the ease in which Kalim Aajiz could express his thoughts through his verses.<ref name="Renowned Urdu poet from Patna Dr. Kalim Ahmed Ajiz is no more" /><ref name="afkar">{{Cite book|title=Afkar-e-Alam, Volume 1|author =Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi|author-link =Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi|publisher=Shaykhul Hind Academy, [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri]]
* [[Ghazal]]

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==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web | url=https://ghalibayaz.wordpress.com/category/ilhaami-aayaat/kalim-ajiz/ | title=Urdu Ghazals by Kalim Ajiz |publisher=Ghalib Ayaz}}
* [https://www.awazthevoice.in/culture-news/when-badri-narain-gupta-came-to-save-kalim-aajiz-s-house-9758.html When Badri Narain Gupta came to save Kalim Aajiz's house by Saquib Salim - Awaz The Voice]

{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Literature & Education}}

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