Manzar Bhopali | |
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Born | Syed Ali Raza 29 December 1959 Amrawati, Bombay State, India |
Occupation | Poet, writer |
Language | Urdu |
Nationality | Indian |
Education | MA |
Alma mater | Barkatullah University |
Genre | Ghazal, nazm, geet |
Subject | Urdu poetry, ghazal |
Spouse | Tabassum Manzar |
Syed Ali Raza, known by his takhallus (pen name) of Manzar Bhopali, is an Indian Urdu poet. He was born in Amravati. During his teenage years, Manzar started taking interest in poetry and attended his first mushaira at the age of 17. Over the course of 3 decades, he has penned more than a dozen books in Hindi and Urdu.