page_title: Nazir Dekhaiya
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Nazir Dekhaiya / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Grave of Poet Nazir Dekhaiya in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
context_page_description: Noor Mohammad Allah Rakha Dekhaiya, better known by his takhallus Nazir Dekhaiya, was a Gujarati ghazal poet from Gujarat, India. His ghazal collections include Tushar, Nazirni Ghazalo and Soona Sadan.
context_section_description: He used to participate in Ghazalsabha, a literary meeting in Bhavnagar where he became acquainted with other poets including Kismat Qureshi, Barkat Virani, Ruswa Majhalumi, Vali Lakhani and Batuk Pandya. He studied ghazal under Kismat Qureshi. Tushar, his first ghazal collection which contains 54 ghazals, was published in 1962 and was followed by Tushar-2 (1978), Nazirni Ghazalo (Part 1-2) and Soona Sadan (2013). His ghazals mainly center around Sufism, the worship of God and talking with loved ones. His ghazal Gaganvasi was sung by Manhar Udhas.
  His short biography was published by his granddaughter, Sameera Dekhaiya Patrawala and grandson Firdaus Dekhaiya in October 2016.
caption: Grave of Poet Nazir Dekhaiya
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