A famous Urdu artist named Munawwar Rana died in Lucknow at the age of 71 from a heart attack. He had been sick for a long time with throat cancer, kidney problems, and heart problems.

He was getting care at the SGPGIMS in Lucknow, which stands for the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences.

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Munawwar Rana’s early life and work

Rana was born on November 26, 1952, in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh. He was famous for making important contributions to Urdu writing and poetry.

He was especially praised for his ghazals, which are a type of poetry with two lines that rhyme and a theme.

He used easy-to-understand words like Hindi and Awadhi in his poetry instead of Persian and Arabic so that it would appeal to Indian listeners more. “Maa,” a classic ghazal poem about the good qualities of a mother, was one of his most well-known works.

Notes and Awards for Munawwar Rana

Rana won a lot of awards throughout his work. He won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 2014 for his book of poems called “Shahdaba.”

But he gave the award back about a year later, saying that society was becoming less tolerant. Besides the Ameer Khusro Award, he has also won the Mir Taqi Mir Award, the Ghalib Award, the Dr. Zakir Hussain Award, and the Saraswati Samaj Award.

Some of his books have been turned into other languages.

Munawwar’s personal life and his work in politics Rana

Rana lived in Kolkata for most of his life and was a major figure in mushairas (an Indian and international term for poetry conferences). Besides that, he was involved in politics in Uttar Pradesh.

The party that is run by Akhilesh Yadav has a member named Sumaiya Rana who is his daughter.

Rana got into a lot of trouble for the things he said, like what he thought about the Taliban and the killing of Samuel Paty in Paris in 2020 because of a debate about Prophet Mohammad.