About the Poet

Dina Nath Nadim (1916-1988) N adim is considered to be one of the greatest and influential poets of the 20th century Kashmir. He is known for his only collection of poems Shihily Kul (The Shady Tree). The collection includes his ghazals, vakhs, haikus, sutras, songs, sonnets and other small poetic forms representing different phases of his life as a poet. The anthology won him the Sahitya Academy Award (India's National Academy of Letters) for 1986. His poems Mye Chham Aash Pagahich (I Hope For Tomorrow), Bu Gyav Ni Aaz (My Song Shall Remain Unsung Today) and Nabad Tyathavyan (Candy and Wormseed) are some of the finest poems of modern Kashmiri Literature.