Baqar Mehdi 

An excellent critic and poet who wrote scores of ‘kaali ghazleN’ and ‘kaali nazmeN’

, Baqar Sahab was an iconoclast to the core. Born in a family of zamindars in

Rudauli town (UP), he had made Mumbai his home.

Another minaret of Urdu literary world fell in Mumbai recently. Baqar Mehdi passed

away at the age of 80. He was ailing but his mind was as sharp as always even on

his deathbed.