Shakeb Jalali


Shakeb Jalali or Shakeeb Jalali, born Syed Hassan Rizvi, was a Pakistani Urdu poet, considered as one of the distinguished Urdu poets of the post-independence era.
Shakeb was born on 1 October 1934 in Jalal, a small village near Aligarh. His ancestors were from a small town, Saddat, near Aligarh. He committed suicide on 12 November 1966 by throwing himself before a passing train near Sargodha, Pakistan. Roushni Aye Roushni, his first poetry collection, was published posthumously in 1972. Sang-e-Meel published his complete poetical works as Kulliyat-e-Shakeb Jalali in 2004.