The Urdu Ghazal Podcast
The Urdu Ghazal Podcast
Surinder Deol
The Urdu Ghazal Podcast, Season 5 Episode 13: Asghar Gondvi
12 minutes Posted Jun 30, 2025 at 4:00 am.
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Send us Fan Mail Asghar Hussain, known by his pen name Asghar Gondvi, was born in 1884 in Gorakhpur. Despite formally studying only up to the 8th class, Asghar achieved mastery of Urdu, Persian, and Arabic through self-study, and also gained proficiency in English. He was under the spiritual influence of Sayed Abdul Ghani Kazmi, a religious saint and mystic, and led a life of piety and self-control. Asghar worked in various occupations - he traded optical items, worked in the railway engineer...