1920 (Nalanda) – 2015 (Hazaribagh) • Chronicler of Pain
"Holding a PhD in Urdu poetry from Patna University, Kaleem Aajiz was a distinguished academic and poet. His life was marked by extreme tragedy; he lost several family members during the brutal 1946 Bihar riots. He masterfully channeled this immense personal and communal grief into his poetry, using a traditional, almost classical style to convey the fresh, bleeding tragedies of modern times."