Jashn-i-Faraz: Remembering the Man and the Poet

Posted on September 2, 2008
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Atiya Batool Khan I had the honor of meeting Ahmad Faraz 26 years ago in Washington. A local Urdu literary society, the Aligarh Alumni Association, had invited him to recite at a gathering they had organized in his honor – a Mushaira, or poetry reading. This was after he had left Pakistan under pressure from […]