Pt.Daya Shankar Kaul"Naseem"

The first and foremost Kashmiri to win recognition as a literary giant in Urdu was Pandit Daya Shankar Kaul 'Nasim' of Lucknow. He was a disciple of the great Urdu poet, "Atish". Nasim's 'Gul Bakawali', a versified version of the famed love story, made him immortal. His fame caused envy to many Urdu novelists.Abdul Haleem "Sharar" came out with a fantastic story that Nasim was not the real author of the book, but Atish, but Chakbast wrote a spirited defense of Nasim and silenced Sharar and his supporters. This controversy, which has now been settled once for all, was an event of great literary battle in the early part of this century. Once a jealous urdu poet asked Naseem to complete the sher by adding second line to it,and said

                                शेख़ ने मस्जिद बना,       मिस्मार बुतख़ाना किया Naseem took two minutes and completed it by adding following line. 

                                पहले तो इक सूरत भी थी,अब साफ़ वीराना किया

मिस्मार=Erased to ground.