Sajad Inqilabi, 58, a resident of village Takiya Behram Shah of Anantnag district, has written seven books and is working on eighth one.
When the financial situation at home urged him to discontinue his studies he didn't give up his passion for poetry.
Inqilabi, who is a carpenter by profession and would sweat in physical labour through out the day, it was not easy for him to keep the poet inside him alive.