Hedayat in Harmony with the Savants of Indo Persian Literature

Since time immemorial India has been a land of poets, writers and philosophers who have given the best of literary expressions and philosophical thoughts to the people at large. Medieval and modern India has produced poets of Persian literature who are famous for their unique thoughts and expressions that have uplifted humanity from the abysmal ignorance. Amir Khosrow, Urfi, Ghalib and Iqbal are a few to name who can form an amicable, congenial and compatible company with Hedayat. Their Persian writings and Hedayat’s thoughts and literary expressions suggest that all level headed men think in similar fashion in the annals of history. The concept of death so vital in the writings of Hedayat is reminiscent of the concept of death in the poetry of Mirza Ghalib. The mode of expressions of Hedayat with respect to the fall of the Rajjaleha and the mode of expressions of Iqbal with regard to the collapse of dictators offer a striking similarity. In this paper an attempt shall be made to show that Sadegh Hedayat is not a stranger amongst the Savants of Indo Persian literature. All great men in history think in like manner and fashion.