Jagan Nath Azad , was an Indian Urdu poet, writer and academician. He wrote over 70 books, including poetry collections, poems, biographies, and travelogues.
He was an authority on the life, philosophy and works of Muhammad Iqbal. He served as President of the Iqbal Memorial Trust for a term of five years .
Azad was elected vice-president of Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu , in 1989 and President in 1993, remaining in this office till his demise.He was at his writing desk until fifteen days before he died – of carcinoma and a brief illness – at the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre in New Delhi, India on 24 July 2004. He was 84 and is survived by his wife and five children. Wikipedia
Quoted in "Two Urdu Poems Reflect How Babri Masjid Demolition Was an Attack on India as a Whole" https://thewire.in/books/babri-masjid-demolition-urdu-poetry-jagan-nath-azad, The Wire, 6 December, 2017. <br class="br">Original: Ye tune Hind ki hurmat ke aaine ko toda hai<br>Khabar bhi hai tujhe Masjid ka gumbad todne wale<br>Humare dil ko toda hai imaarat ko nahi toda<br>Khabaasat ki bhi had hoti hai had todne wale
