Bio
Khaleel Ur Rehman has been associated with Urdu language and literature for the past 30 years. He is a renowned modern Urdu Poet and his poems have been published in various Urdu magazines in India and overseas. He has also translated many poems and essays from English, French, German, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi and other languages. He has to his credit nine books. As a member of the Urdu Academy he has played an important role in preparation of Kannada – Urdu Dictionary and Urdu – Kannada Dictionary. He has also written numerous plays and features for All India Radio, Delhi and Bangalore. He is the editor of a quarterly Urdu journal “Adab” and the Urdu weekly “Kaun-O-Makaan”. He has in the past been Secretary, Urdu Theatre Trust and Urdu Drama Trust, both organizations that pioneered the promotion of Urdu drama in Bangalore and elsewhere and staged many plays including Habib Tanveer’s “Agra Bazaar” and Bhishm Sahani’s “Kabira Khada Bazaar Men”.