Celebrating Nisar in Word and Song

Over five decades of prodigious poetic output, the late Padma Shri KS Nisar Ahmed (1936-2020), one of Karnataka’s most beloved contemporary poets, captured both the minutiae of daily life and the spirit of the age in verses that are as provocative as they are deeply lyrical. Steeped in both Romantic and Modernist traditions, his work blends intellectual rigour with heartfelt emotion, remaining strikingly relevant across generations. Every Day a Celebration gathers some of the Nityotsava Kavi’s finest poems, and introduces his voice to a wider audience and a new generation through Roopa Pai’s s