Ishqnaama: The love-life of Meeraji
A major modernist poet, by all means, Meeraji is also a myth of sorts. He had to be so, for he lived a life completely atypical and totally abysmal.
By Anisur Rahman
November 3, 2021
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Ishqnaama: The love-life of Josh Malihabadi
An emotionally honest Josh has remained an icon of love with a difference. In this extraordinary narrative Yaadon ki Baraat spread over 729 pages, he has narrated his love-life in 57 pages and unabashedly claimed that he loved “not once but eighteen times”.
By Anisur Rahman
February 22, 2021
Ishqnaama: The love-life of Sahir Ludhianavi
Sahir was passionate about life, as he was about love. Some of his lady-loves were illusory; others were real but in both he remained a deeply aspirational character.
By Anisur Rahman
May 4, 2019
Ishqnaama: The love-life of Jigar Moradabadi
Jigar Moradabadi lived two lives of love and longing. In one, he was liked, loved, and then helplessly separated from his beloved; in another, he was accepted, rejected, and finally reunited with one who happened to be his wife once.
By Anisur Rahman
April 15, 2019
Ishqnaama: The love-life of Sadat Hasan Manto
She was neither a figment of Manto’s imagination, nor his fantasy; she was real as a real being could be —made of flesh and blood who could put him to a tough test.
By Anisur Rahman
April 1, 2019
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