His earliest poetry was marked by the romantic preoccupations of the ghazal tradition. But despite working long hours during the day, he spent his evenings, as he reports in his autobiography, Jahan-i dānish (Danish’s World 1973), reading voraciously, writing poetry, and attending and eventually participating in mushā’irah s. Moving from his village to Lahore as a teenager, he worked as a construction worker, gardener, cook, painter, watchman, bookshop clerk, whatever odd job that would come his way, eventually becoming one of Pakistan’s foremost poets. Despite his family’s poverty, he managed to learn Arabic and Persian on his own and struggled to make a living as an ordinary laborer. Ahsan Danish ( Iḥsān Dānish 1914-82 also Ehsan Danish, Ihsan Danish) was born Ahsanul Haq ( ا Iḥsānul Ḥaq) in Maulanan Kandhla, Shamli District , in what is today Uttar Pradesh.
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