Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Mehjoor (1887-1952) popularly known as Mehjoor Kashmiri was born in the village of Matrigam in South Kashmir. When just thirteen years  old he completed the study of “Panj Ganj –e-Nizami “ of  the Persian poet  Nizami and was declared to be proficient in Persian by his teachers. He started writing poems in the Kashmiri language at an early age and in 1930s was recognized as one of the greatest romantic poets of Kashmir. A few years before his death following the tribal invasion of Kashmir in 1947 he came out of seclusion and wrote poems on subjects that were of importance to the inhabitants of the State at that time. Though a devout Muslim the ideas expressed in his poem “AZADI”  or “FREEDOM” are strikingly similar to those in the Turkish communist poet Nazim Hekmat’s poem “A Sad State of Freedom”. The topical poems of Mehjoor .provide an insight into the conditions prevailing in Kashmir at the time of the departure of the British from the Subcontinent.