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{{Short description| Indian poet and scholar (1907–1990)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Ratan Pandoravi<br /><small>{{Nastaliq|رتن پنڈوروی}}</small>
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| caption =
| birth_name = Rala Ram
| birth_date = 7 July 1907
| birth_place = [[Pandori, Jalandhar|Pandori]], [[Kapurthala State]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age text|4 November 1990|7 July 1907}}
| death_place = [[Pathankot]], [[Punjab, India]]
| other_names =
| known_for = [[Nazm]]s, [[Ghazal]]s , [[Criticism]], [[Historian]], [[Translator]]
| occupation = Darvish (Sufi aspirant)

}}

'''Rattan Pandoravi''' ({{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq| رتن پنڈوروی}}}}) as [[pen name]] born '''Rala Ram''' ({{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq|رالا رام}}}}) 7 July 1907 – 4 November 1990, was an [[Urdu]] poet and scholar from [[India]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Zaviyaha e nigaah|author=Zia Fatehabadi|publisher=Bazm e Seemab|page=81|url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15663436W/Zaviyah_e_nigaah|quote= “Mujhe yeh bhii ma’aloom thaa ki woh darvishaanaa aur faqiiraanaa zindagii basar kar rahe hain ” From chapter - ''Ratan kii shayarii mein tazkirah e husn o ishq''}}</ref>

==Biography==

===Early life===
Rattan Pandoravi was born on 7 July 1907 in [[Pandori, Jalandhar|Pandori]], District [[Kapurthala]], India. He obtained his Munshi Fazil ''منشی فاضل'' and Adeeb Fazil ''ادیب فاضل'' diploma in [[Arabic]] and [[Persian language|Persian]]. As an Urdu poet he firstly consulted [[Dil Shahjahanpuri]], the renowned disciple of [[Amir Meenai]], but later [[Josh Malsiyani]] became his mentor.

==Career==
He has written several books of poetry collection, in which he speaks about the eternal sublime beauty that gives the entire universe its form, shape and cognisance, and the limitless universal love that keeps it firmly bound.<ref>{{cite book|title=Zaviyah e nigaah|author=Zia Fatehabadi|page=85|url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15663436W/Zaviyah_e_nigaah|quote= “Ratan aise keii muqaamaat se guzar chukaa hai, kahiin use apni surat mein mehboob kii surat dikhaaii detii hai to kahiin woh mehboob ko apne ta’aqub mein paataa hai, kahiin khaak ke zarre us kii aankhon ke taare ban jaate hain to kahiin jahaan ishq ko woh husn kaa aalam samahjane lagtaa hai, kahiin uske dil mein mehboob kii khwaahish ke siwaa aur koii khwaahish nahiin rahatii to kahiin woh donon jahaan ke aish thukraataa huaa nazar aataa hai,kahiin uskii zabaan khaamosh magar nazar sarshaar rahatii hai to kahiin raat din woh ek mahshar e khaamosh apne pesh e nazar paataa hai, kabhi woh itnaa kho jaataa hai ki khud use apnaa nishaan kahiin nahiin miltaa … ” From chapter - ''Ratan kii shayarii mein tazkirah e husn o ishq''}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Poetry of Ratan Pandoravi|publisher=Paigaam|url=https://paigaam.tripod.com/htmlold/R1000.HTM}}</ref>
The comprehensive appraisal of his life and works that has been published is ''Fars - i – nazar:Pandit Ratan Pandorvi ki dilkas nazmiyat''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Books Catalog:far-vol.25|url=http://www.bookmaps.de/lib/ruc/f/a/far_25.html|publisher=bookmaps.de|accessdate=9 April 2018|archive-date=10 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410134625/http://www.bookmaps.de/lib/ruc/f/a/far_25.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

*''Bahisht e Nazar''
*''Andaz e Nazar''
*''Rubaiyyat e Ratan''<ref>{{cite web|title=Rubaiyyat e Ratan|url=https://paigaam.tripod.com/htmlold/R1000.HTM}}</ref>
*''Tahqiqi mabahis'' (1988)
*''Hindi ke Musalman Shoara'' (1982)
*''Sarmayah balaghat'' (1983)
*''Sirre e Maghfarat'' translation of [[Bhagvad Gita]] (1987) <ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature|page=987|url=https://books.google.com/books/?isbn=8126018038}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Urdu language poets]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===External links===

* [http://kavitakosh.org/kk/रतन_पंडोरवी/ Poetry of Ratan Pandoravi on kavita Kosh]
*[https://rekhta.org/poets/ratan-pandorwi/ Ghazals of Ratan Pandoravi on Rekhta]

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[[Category:1907 births]]
[[Category:1990 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Kapurthala district]]
[[Category:Urdu-language Indian poets]]
[[Category:Hindu poets]]
[[Category:Indian male poets]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]
[[Category:Poets from Punjab, India]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]

Ratan Pandoravi - Revision history

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