Mehjoor was a resident of Mitragam- Pulwama is the most celebrated flower with deep fragrance from the poetic garden of Kashmir, popularly known as “Shair-e-Kashmir”. His splendid strands took Kashmiri poetry to new horizons. He is highly honored for introducing new style, themes, thoughts and subjects in Kashmiri poetry. He embodied subjects like development, revolution, patriotism, love, joy, nature, beauty in his poetry. He talked about progress of Kashmiris’ and awakened people from slumber by his lively new literary form. He penned down his work in Persian, Urdu and Kashmiri languages and mainly in three forms vachan, gazal and nazam. His poetry is mainly divided in to three parts: earlier poetry as Kalam-e-Mehjoor profoundly on romanticism, middle as Payam-e-Mehjoor majorly for imbibing the patriotic values in the people and give them the wakeup call for their progress and last part Salam-e-Mehjoor has …show more content…
Other works by Mehjoor are guide to patwaris, Naala-i-Mehjoor, Aina-e-Itehad-e-Kashmir, Jang-e-German, Gandhi etc. T.N. Kaul in his work ‘Poems of Mehjoor’, a translation of poetry account of Mehjoor says that Mehjoor’s poems are the laudable work and a heritage to which people from inside and outside Kashmir should be acquainted. Articles about the Mehjoor made the place in Calcutta quarterly ‘vishwabarti’. Bakshi Ghulam Mohmmad , Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir in 1957 said there is a dire need to save literary contribution of Mehjoor, he said “Mehjoor’s poetry is part of our great literary heritage and therefore it is our vital literary duty to keep his memory alive, it is also essential to introduce the artists of our state to outside