IRSPBB 18000 Sher Encyclopedia

RSPBB’s portal www.irspbb.org is the one and first website developed around the work of Poet Bashir Badr. The portal is going to showcase the life and work of life by the Poet Bashir Badr. For the poetry lovers, for the fans of Poet and for new generation poets IRSPBB has also decided to collect 18,000 of Poet’s work and publish them as 6 Encyclopaedias. Each of the encyclopaedias will have 3000 pages, each page giving in depth knowledge about 1 sher.

When it was decided to publish Encyclopaedias on Dr. Bashir Badr it was a not a easy task of publishing a set of books. It was more like choosing the best 18,000 diamonds from a collection of millions of GEMS. And when we speak about Encyclopaedia challenge is not to collect 18,000 pieces of content but to represent each one of them in right order of their inception along with stories and events around them. Finally when all of these are available, simple tasks of collating them in a book can be planned, with meaning of each unique word and paragraph so that each individual at any level of education can understand it.

Bashir Sahab is poet of people, the language he uses is most simplest we have ever worked with. All because of this simple language we immediately decided to translate all his work to English, French, Germany and Spanish in nest 2 years. Read More

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These books are in process of special crafting under the guidance of noted Urdu Critic and Editor Iqbal Masood who has recently retired from post of Joint Secretary of Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy. Mr. Iqbal has been given a dedicated team of pre-press people to accomplish the task in next 1 year. Founder Chairman of IRPSBB Mr. Nilesh is supporting Mr. Iqbal in choosing the SHERs out of life time work by Poet Bashir Badr along with travelling all over the globe to collect facts and history about each of the 18,000 shers chosen.

Books are planned for their Preview launch in London Book Fair 2011. Books will be ready for Hindi, Urdu and English market by early 2012 and from there onwards the process of translating them in various other languages of world shall start. IRSPBB’s collection of Encyclopaedias is a job of life time; there will be constant addition of content, translation and work by other poets.

The IRSPBB 18,000 Shers Encyclopedia of
Shayar-E-Azam Bashir Badr
Encyclopedia Volume 1
By
Nilesh Neel
For
International Readers Society of Poet Bashir Badr (www.irspbb.org)

Forward By : ‘Padma Bhushan’ Jagjit Singh

Editor-in-Chief : Iqbal Masood (Rtd.) Joint Secretary, Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy, Bhopal

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Cover/Book Concept & Author’s Photograph : Nilesh Neel
Cover/Book Design: Ratnakar Singh

The Cover of the book is a photograph of handmade curtain made by Dr. Akhtar Jahan Malik of 72 imorte Shers of Bashir Badr.

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Bashir Badr is an eminent poet in the Urdu world of literature. Dr. Badr's remarkable Shers and Mushairas have been grandly cheered by the poet-lovers throughout the world.

Although there are hundreds of languages in the world, yet great and classical Literature of Poetry is reflected in the language of Urdu. Dr. Badr's Poetry and Ghazals in Urdu portray the virtues like love, devotion, sacrifice, cultured living, modern world etc. Dr. Badr's portrayals are vibrant and pleasure to read; his expression is unique. Dr. Badr's is capable of bringing out the entire meaning intended in just 2 lines of Shers. Dr. Badr’s writings touchingly bring out the meaningful approach of life. The poet has written Shers for every emotion and feeling that life can variedly offer. The Poet has made a distinct and glorious contribution to the Urdu poetry world. Dr. Badr's Shers exist at the finest level in similarity to that of Ghalib's. Dr. Badr's works are delight to Poetry readers. Great scholar, well versed in the Urdu literary genre, had exceptionally been a student to his own books in the years of Post Graduation.

Dr. Badr is the greatest writer of this era of the Urdu Poetry and has given the world an immortal classic in form of more than 18000 Shers. Dr. Badr’s heart-touching Shers and Ghazals have given new heaven to the Urdu Poetry. Dr. Badr is inimitable; he has unique line of writing in which he has graciously used lexis from English, making the expression unique, contemporary and fresh. It seems Dr. Badr has given rebirth to the Urdu poetry world.

Dr. Badr is recognised as the poet of this era and Bashir Badr's Ghazals will soon become universal manifest of the poetry world. To make Dr. Badr’s Shers reach all the readers in the world and to bind the Urdu Literature with the world; IRSPBB (International Reader’s Society of Poet Bashir Badr) came into existence. IRSPBB has been founded by Dr. Badr's disciple and follower Mr. Nilesh Neel. Mr. Neel is firm believer of Dr. Badr and believes that there can be no one like Bashir Badr and world would in future know him as an Urdu Legend. As narrated by Mr. Neel in an article SHAYAR–E–AZAM "Bashir Badr himself is poetry and when poetry writes poetry his legacy is difficult to quantify." As a modest and humble person, poet Dr. Badr has given the exclusive life time copyrights of all his Shers and Ghazals to IRSPBB. As a longsighted universal poet, Dr. Badr has entrusted his confidence in Nilesh Neel (Founder & Chairman IRSPBB) to exhibit Dr. Badr's work to the world and connect with the world through the prevailing ways via technology and media, so that in approaching years Dr. Badr works glorify the generations to come. Dr. Badr’s Shers are being publicized in form of Encyclopaedia in consecutive editions released by IRSPBB.

'A Poet has taken birth as literature and the literature has taken birth as a poet'