Basheer Badr
Bashir Badr is an Indian poet and the former lecturer of Aligarh Muslim University. He primarily writes in Urdu language particularly ghazals. Bashir Badr has received the Padma Shri award in 1999 for contribution towards literature and Sangeet Natak Akademi. He has also received the Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for his poetry collection “Aas” in 1999.