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

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 military [...]