Samad Mir — Chinar Shade (Avtar Mota)

Avtar Mota’s Chinar Shade literary portrait (14 October 2026), “Samad Mir (1893–1959): The Carpenter’s Assistant Who Became a Mystic Sufi Poet”, drawn on Moti Lal Saqi’s Sahitya Akademi monograph and his eyewitness recollections; it gives the birth as 1894 at Sekidafar against the encyclopedias’ 1893.