The 49th death anniversary of renowned Urdu poet Saghar Siddiqui is being observed on Wednesday (today).
Born in Ambala in 1928, Siddiqui belonged to a middle-class family and was the only child of his parents and spent early years of his life in Ambala and Saharanpur UP, India.
He was a prodigious lad who began writing poetry as a child. He was 19 when he migrated to Pakistan in 1947 and settled in Lahore. Siddiqui was home tutored and received his early education from Habib Hassan, a family friend.
Siddiqui continued to write poetry for the film industry and moved on to publish a literary magazine.
