خورشید حسین جنیدی Khursheed Hussain Junaidy

Khursheed Hussain Junaidy was an Urdu poet of Hyderabad who wrote under the pen name Khursheed.

He was a man of science as well as of verse. He took his BSc from Osmania University in his time, and he gave his life to Urdu poetry. In Hyderabad he published his own collections of poetry, and he also compiled and edited the work of others for the city's literary circles.

This website is kept by his family. Everything on it comes from the family, from his own books, or from records we have checked. Where we do not yet know something, we have left it out rather than guess.

His poetry will be here in full, in his own words.

We are retyping all three books from the family's own copies. Every line is typed twice, compared, and then read against the printed page by an Urdu scholar before it goes up. Nothing will appear here until it is exactly as he wrote it.

Each ghazal and nazm will be shown in Urdu, with a Roman reading beside it for those who cannot read the script.

ان شاء اللہ، جلد

Khursheed Healthcare in Hyderabad is named after him.

His grandson, Dr Khizer Hussain Junaidy, gave his clinic his grandfather's name. So the name of a poet of Hyderabad still greets people at a doctor's door in the same city, every day.

Did you know him, hear him at a mushaira, or keep one of his books?

We are gathering his photographs, letters, recordings and the memories of those who knew him. If you have anything, even one couplet you remember, please write to the family. Nothing you send will be published without your permission.

Write to the family