Lucknow, Jan. 15 -- : Tributes were paid to legendary poet Kaifi Azmi on his 107th birth anniversary at the Kaifi Azmi Academy auditorium on Wednesday. The programme was organised by the All India Kaifi Academy and featured literary discussions, poetry recitations and theatre presentations.

The event was attended by the Academy's vice president Syed Khursheed Mehdi and noted fiction writer Ayesha Siddiqui. It began with Ajra Jirvi's evocative recitation of Kaifi Azmi's famous poem Aurat, followed by a seminar titled Memories of Kaifi.

Delivering the keynote address, prof Nalin Ranjan Singh said that while Kaifi Azmi is widely known as a poet, his contribution as a columnist is often overlooked. He recalled that between 1964 and 1972, Ka...