The Poetry of Dilawar Figar

Posted on May 30, 2008
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Shahran Asim
As part of my effort to introduce humorous poets of Pakistan on this blog (here and here) I am bringing a post on Dilawar Figar today.
My personal recollections of Dilawar Figar was in 1996 when he was invited along with other noted personalities in a Roo-Baroo program. He recited his very interesting poetry which […]

Rising Food Prices - A Silent Tsunami?

Posted on May 22, 2008
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Owais Mughal
Many people are calling the recent inflation of food prices world wide a silent tsunami. As we have covered it at ATP before, Pakistan is also facing this crisis. In case of Pakistan it can also be argued that the cause of inflation here is as much internal (e.g. Govt policy and food hoarding) […]

Discrepancy: So What Is It?

Posted on May 1, 2008
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Pervaiz Munir Alvi
Previously at ATP we have talked about ‘Redundancy’ and about ‘Naming Names’ in Pakistan. At those posts lively comments by many of our readers made the original post even more interesting. Once again we are hopeful that our loyal readers will come forward and add to this post with their own interesting questions. […]

ATP Mushaira: Anwar Masood

Posted on March 26, 2008
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Adil Najam
I want to introduce this new (hopefully regular) feature at ATP. (Actually, if you press the ‘ATP Mushaira‘ category you will find that this is the second installment in this category; the first being our little Faiz Mela on Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s birthday.) Of course, poetry has been a regular and favorite subject for […]

Ibn-e-Insha: nagri nagri phira musafir

Posted on February 6, 2008
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Asma Mirza
sadd rang meri mauj hay, main tab’ey rawaa’n hoon
This verse always crosses my mind whenever the name of Ibn-e-Insha is mentioned around. A poet, columnist, humorist, and travelogue writer loved for past five decades by Urdu language readers around the globe.

I still remember the first time I got introduced to Insha Ji’s witty writings. […]

Shakeb Jalali: aa ke patthar to mere sehn mein..

Posted on September 30, 2007
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Owais Mughal
Shakeb Jalali is a famous Urdu poet. His real name was Syed Hassan Rizvi. He was born in a small town called Jalali near Aligarh, India on October 1, 1934. He passed his matriculation exam from Badayun (UP) and then moved along with his sisters to Rawalpindi. His life as a poet began […]

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