Adil Najam
This is an amazing picture (click on picture, or here, to see an enlarged version). Here are just a few of the giants of Urdu literature in this group: Majnoon Gorakhpuri, Mahirul Qadri, Maulvi Abdul Haq, Hasrat Mohani, Saqib Lakhnavi, Seemab Akbarabadi, Hafeez Jullandhari, Dr. Taseer, Josh Maliahbadi, Behzad Luckhnavi, Raja Sahib Mahmoodabad, Tilok Chander Mehroom, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Col. Majeed Malik, Ghulam Rabbani Taban, Dr. Zakir Hussain, Chaudhri Mohammad Ali, A.D. Azhar, Ishwar Dayal, and many more.
That is a breathtaking list is there ever was one. And it is a breathtaking picture.
Unfortunately, we do not know much about the picture in terms of its details. It has been floating over emails, and I received it from Naveed Riaz. A number of people in the picture remain unidentified. We do know that the picture was published in LIFE magazine, but do not know when and in what issue. If we could find the answer to that, I think a lot of other details will become known too. For example, when was this taken (most likely, this is pre-1947)? And why was this taken? What brought all these giants of literature together? Where? And why?
If anyone knows more about this picture, do please let us know.
The picture has been fixed and clicking on it should take you to a larger view of it
By just looking at the names, I can guess that this was group photo of a conference of the Tarraqi pasand tehreek of yester years.
A great historical picture!
I wish such pictures were taken every year?
The large picture is not coming up.
But from what we can see here this is fascinating
Looks like a college event of some type. maybe mushaira.
the link to the bigger version does not seem to be working