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Dear Readers,
While All Things Pakistan has remained alive and online, it has been dormant since June 11, 2011 - when, on the blog's 5th anniversary, we decided that it was time to move on. We have been heartened by your messages and the fact that a steady traffic has continued to enjoy the archived content on ATP. While the blog itself will remain dormant, we are now beginning to add occasional (but infrequent) new material by the original authors of the blog, mostly to archive what they may now publish elsewhere. We will also be updating older posts to make sure that new readers who stumble onto this site still find it useful.
We hope you will continue to find ATP a useful venue to reflect upon and express your Pakistaniat. - Editors
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This is really interesting, You’re a very skilled blogger. I’ve joined your feed and look forward to seeking more of your wonderful post. Also, I have shared your site in my social networks!
Ghalib is known not only for his verse, but prose in form of Ghalib Ke Khatoot. These remain humorous and sarcastic at the same time and help understand events of the era.
Recited beautifully by Master Urdu Reciter Zia Mohyeddin
https://www.thesufi.com/sufimusic/zia-mohyeddin-reads-urdu-adab-prose/ghalib-kay-khatoot.html
Both Allah Wasaya’s translation in Punjabi and the Translator’s rendering in English are hilarious, even profound. I read these to a small informal gathering at our place (who get together once in a while to discuss a given poet and recite one or two of his poems). Today was Josh’s and Rahman Baba’s day, but at the end I read these two translations just for amusement. Both translations received a “standing ovation” from the group!
Owais Saheb,
your copy of the poem does not includes two couplets of the poem before the last lines:
Han bhala kar tera bhala hoga,
aur dervish ki sada kia hai.
Jan tum pay nisar karta hoon
Main nehi janta ki dua kia hai.
Do good and have good,
What else an ascetic could ask for,
My everything is for you
Though i don’t know anything about prayers.
Thank you guys for appreciating my humble effort. I hope you do realize that this kind of praise can only encourage more of the same – breaking the legs of other classics, as the Urdu slang goes. Not a whole lot of good can come out of that :-)