Name: Gonda
Address: Gonda, South Asia

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Asghar Gondvi

Urdu poet (1884–1936), born Asghar Husain at Gorakhpur and raised at Gonda, from which his pen name Gondvi comes. Largely self-taught to mastery of Urdu, Arabic and Persian, he edited the magazine Hindustani at Allahabad for years and became known for ghazals of a Sufi and philosophical cast, collected as Nishat-e Rooh and Surood-e Zindagi.

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