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Kaifi Azmi – a ‘maulvi’ who turned to music and Marx
Kaifi was born as Sayyid Akhtar Hussein Rizvi in January 1919, in village of Mizwaa(n) in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh.
The family was deeply rooted in religion. Not so surprisingly, Kaifi, the son of a landlord, was admitted to a madrassa in Lucknow for religious education. But here he developed social consciousness, organised students of the seminary and held demonstrations.
This is how he became a comrade instead of a maulvi.
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Kaifi never underwent any ideological change after the first and the last transition. In his early 20s, he become a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and when he died, he still had a CPI card in the pocket of his kurta.
Since he was born in a Shia family, there was a tradition at his home to mourn the 72 martyrs of Karbala during Muharram every year.
In his childhood, Kaifi too would take part in religious congregations and cry over the martyrdom of Prophet Mohammad's grandson, and