Zarina Sani (Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

: زرىنو سانی) was a renowned Indian Urdu poet

Poet

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ess, writer and researcher.

Early life

Sani was born in Nagpur

Nagpur

Nāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...

, Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

. She obtained Master of Arts

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 degrees in Urdu and Persian

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

, and a Ph.D

Doctor of Philosophy

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.

Career

Sani was a lecturer in L.A.D. College, Nagpur.

She is known for her Ph.D. thesis on the poetical works of Seemab Akbarabadi

Seemab Akbarabadi

Seemab Akbarabadi , born Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui, was a renowned Urdu poet belonging to the Daagh School. He hailed from Agra where his family had lived for nearly three hundred years.-Early life:...

 titled Seemab kii nazamiya shayarii, and her critical appraisal of the life and works of Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi

Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi

Zia Fatehabadi , born Mehr Lal Soni , was a renowned Urdu ghazal and nazm writer. He was a disciple of Syed Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui Seemab Akbarabadi who was a disciple of Nawab Mirza Khan Daagh Dehlawi...

 titled Budha Darakhat. Her other books are Urdu shayarii kii Hindustani rooh and Safdar Aah bahasiat shair.

Sani co-authored Aaina-e-Ghazal, an Urdu-Hindi-Marathi-English glossary of Urdu words commonly used in Urdu ghazals, with English and Hindi equivalents.