Ishqnaama: The love-life of Momin Khan Momin
Tumhein Yaad ho ke na yaad ho
Momin lived to love and loved to live but he could not have luck with any of his beloveds.
इमरोज़-एक जश्न अपने रंग, अपनी रौशनी का
इमरोज़ की मिट्टी का गुदाज़, लोच और लचक देखकर हैरत होती है कि कोई इतना सहज भी हो सकता है। लोग जो भी बातें करते रहें, वो दर-अस्ल इमरोज़ को अमृता के चश्मे के थ्रू देख रहे होते हैं जबकि इमरोज़ किसी भी परछाईं से अलग अपने वजूद, अपने मर्कज़ से मुकम्मल तौर पर जुड़े रहे हैं।
Five Never-Heard-Before Couplets of Ahmad Faraz
Here are five couplets of Faraz that you may not have heard or read before.
Ada Jafarey
The poet, the woman, the mother
Ada Jafarey has had many distinctions: she was one of the first female voices of substance in Urdu poetry; she was refreshingly modernist, and above all entirely inimitable.
Qurratulain Hyder
Qurratulain Hyder’s distinction lay in the way she developed her vision of history and fiction as meta-history and meta-fiction. This is where she had an edge over all others who wrote before, or after her.
Jaan Nisar Akhtar
As a word, Jaan Nisar qualifies a person who can submit one’s life. Jaan Nisar Akhtar did so precisely to engage with the demon of life and the muse of poetry.
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