Qyamat by Rahi Masum Raza

Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi

Qyamat by Rahi Masum Raza

Cover Designed by Deo Prakash Choudhary

ABOUT THE AUTHOR  

Rahi Masoom Raza was born on September 1, 1925, in Ghazipur district of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India.He completed his early education in and around Ghazipur from where he went to Aligarh Muslim University to complete his higher studies. Masoom Raza did his doctorate in Hindustani Literature and pursued his career in literature.

He wrote the script and dialogues for a popular TV serial, Mahabharat. The TV serial was based on the epic, the Mahabharata. The serial became one of the most popular TV serial of India, and its peak Television Rating was around 86%.

Several works of Raza vividly depict the agony and turmoil of the consequences of partition, and its effect on the Hindu-Muslim relationship in the Indian subcontinent, as also the social tension among different social groups of India but above that Raza depicts the life in feudal India and the ordinary happiness, love,emotions, pain, sadness of general people in his master story telling style in which at times he himself is the narrator.

Rahi Masoom Raza's Some Other Works:

Novel

Adha Gaon (that is, The Divided Village)A Village Divided

Dil ek saada kaghaz

Topi Shukla

Os ki boond

Katra Bi arzoo

Scene No. 75

 Poetry(books)

 Mauz-e-ghul mauz-e-saba(Urdu)

Ajnabee shahar ajnabee raste(Urdu)

Main ek Feriwala(Hindi)

Sheeshe ke Makaan Wale(Hindi)

 Autobiography

 Chotey aadmi ki badee kahaani (that is, "Big story of a Small man")

 Movie and TV scripts

 Neem ka Ped - Novel and TV Serial with same name

Kissi Se Na Kehna

Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki

Disco Dancer

Mahabharat

 Movie Dialogues

 Aaina (1993)

Parampara (1992)

Lamhe (1991)

Karz (1980)

Judaai (1980)

Hum Paanch (1980)

Gol Maal (1979)

Alaap (1977)

 Movie Lyrics

 Alaap (1977)