Radom Writings
Editor · Biographies & Auto Biographies
Price: Rs. 225. Dr. Raj Bahadur Gour is a man of multidimensional and multicoloured personality. A qualified physician by choice, a revolutionary by temperament, a trade unionist under the mandate of the Party, a fighter for the cause of Urdu as an inheritor of the rich heritage of composite culture, a literateur and lover of Urdu poetry as a close comrade of Makhdoom, the well known poet, and lastly a humorist by instinct. In his endeavour to harmonise all these qualities of his character, he was constrained to perform many adventurous deeds such as going to jail or entering Parliament or deciding not to practice as a qualified physician, joining people's struggle for the liberation of Telangana, etc. etc. Dr. Gour's long interaction with the toiling masses and workers, his dedication to political activism, subjected him to a lot of hardships in life. But such struggle and hardships could never deter him from enjoying fruits of his culture and appreciating literature and poetry. Perhaps it was this quality of his heroic and harmonious character, along with his sharp sense of wit and humour that made him more and more popular among the younger generation. It may be said safely that after the legendary figure of Makhdoom Mohiuddin, it was Dr. Gour from Hyderabad, who immensely inspired younger writers of my generation, who emerged in mid fifties. We gathered around him and held him in high esteem as our 'guru.' While we never dared to be free and frank with our intellectual stalwarts such as Sajjad Zaheer and Ali Sardar Jafri, Dr. Gour easily made us frank like a close friend, through his witty nature and friendly gestures. Dr. Gour is endowed with a refined taste of literature. Born in a