Srinagar, April 8 -- The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference President Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Vice President and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday paid glowing tributes to Shayar-e-Kashmir Pirzada Ghulam Ahmad Mehjoor on the observance of annual Mehjoor day.
Dr Farooq in his message said, "As the bard of nature and voice of working classes, Mehjoor stands supreme. His love of Nature was probably truer, and tenderer, than that of any other Kashmiri poets before or since.
He occupies an independent status in the poetic circles of Kashmir on account of his giving voice to the sorrow-stricken hearts of people of his era; his couplets are obsessed with the emotions of the realities of his era. His poems became the nationalist anthems of ...