death_date death_place birth_place subject nationality name birth_date genre image article_title birth_name occupation
1978 -lrb- aged 80 -rrb- lahore , pakistan amritsar , british punjab literature pakistani sufi tabassum صوفی تبسم 1 october 1898 fiction sufi tabassum.jpg ghulam mustafa tabassum
 ghulam mustafa tabassum poet
ghulam mustafa tabassum

ghulam mustafa tabassum -lrb- 4 august 1899 -- 1978 -rrb- was a noted 20th-century poet in three languages : urdu , punjabi , and persian .
tabassum -lrb- or tabussum -rrb- was the pen name by which he was universally known .
he is best known for his many poems written for children , as the creator of the `` tot batot '' character , and as the translator of many poetical works from urdu and persian into punjabi .
tabassum 's style is in the classical tradition , informed by a deep awareness of the pain and suffering that afflicts modern life .
tabassum was born in amritsar , punjab , to parents of kashmiri ancestry .
he earned a master 's degree in persian from forman christian college -lrb- fcc -rrb- in lahore .
he remained with government college lahore for his entire career , rising to head the department of persian studies .
for fifty years he was a prominent speaker on radio and television .
his poems were used as the lyrics of several songs sung by noor jehan .
in 1966 he received the `` tamgha-e-nishan-e-sipaas '' award of the government of iran , and he was awarded the `` sitara-i-imtiaz '' by the government of pakistan .
tabassum 's son , nisar ahmed , was also a stage play writer and wrote many comedies , mainly punjabi stage plays and television dramas .
tabassum was a follower of nawab ud din ramdasi of the chishti order , according to mazhar ud din .
