Gulam Rabbani Taban

Gulam Rabbani was an Indian lawyer and poet of Urdu literature who wrote under the nom de plume 'Taban'. He wrote several poems in Urdu, especially ghazals, and was known for his works, Zauq-i safar, Nava-e-avara, Poetics to politics and Saz-i larzan. He received the Sahitya Akademi award in 1979 for his work, Nava-e-avara. He was honoured by the Government of India in 1971 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.

Biography Gulam Rabbani was born at Kaimganj, a small hamlet in Farrukhabad district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on 15 February 1914 in a rich family of Zamindars. and took to serious writing. Azra Rizvi, one of his daughters, was among the trio of writers, the others being Ajmal Ajmali and Sughra Mehdi, who wrote Rabbani's biography published by Mahnamah Kitab Numa, New Delhi in 1993 under the name, Ghulam Rabbani Taban : shakhsiyat aur adabi khidmat. He died in 1992.