Tumhare Liye
(Safia Akhtar)
Writing letters is an art. The letters of many popular personalities like Mirza Galib, Nehru, Sarojini Naidu has published as the sample of writing art.
The letters of a woman was published in Urdu, in the seventh decade named ?Zere lab?. Now the collection of same letters is publishing in Devnagri script, naming ?Tumhare naam?.
These letters written by Safia (who was the mother of well known hindi film?s script writer and lyric Javed Akhtar). Safia wrote these letters to her husband Jaan-nisar Akhtar, who was a well known Urdu poet. In these letters, Safia told that how Jaan-Nisar proposed her and how they got married.
Safia was a teacher in Aligarh University and Jaan-Nisar was an urdu poet and freedom fighter. They were both conventional supporters of left wing. After the freedom of India the government started a campaign against the left wing. Many people are arrested that time for supporting the left wing. Jaan-Nisar under grounded for some days and went to Mumbai. Jaan-Nisar and Safia never lived together for a long period so they have only letters as a medium to be in touch.
Safia brought up her two sons alone. In her letters she quoted Javed as Jadoo. She wrote in an very interesting way that what Javed was used to do in his childhood. In the last letter of this collection she wrote to her husband
?Akhtar please come don?t let me die. Though I have tired a lot, but I don?t want to die. Please come so that I can have a fine sleep in your knees. Then I will definitely standup to support you?.
But Akhtar did not come and Safia died. She left behind her children Javed and Salman. After reading this collection we can realize that she was a revolutionary women as well as a wife, devoted to her husband.We can also experience the pain and feeling of helplessness and aloneness of a wife.
This heart touching collection has been translated by Ajgar Vajanat.
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