Doosra Iqbal: A Revisitation

Posted on December 16, 2009
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Deeda-e-Beena Iqbal bhi Iqbal say aagah naheen hai Mea culpa, Mea culpa, Mea culpa! After a lapse of some fifty years I am re-visiting Iqbal’s Urdu poetry. It is a revisitation I would highly recommend we all do. To begin with I was not English-medium but talaash–ai–maash turned me into one – I being part […]

Majeed Amjad: The Poet Less Remembered

Posted on December 13, 2009
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Fawad In the post-Iqbal era of Urdu poetry there are few greater poets than Majeed Amjad (this is a link to a short bio of him in Wikipedia that I wrote and I would love readers familiar with his work to add to it). Yet, he may also be amongst the most under-recognized and under-appreciated […]

One Man Band: All We Want is to Live A Little

Posted on December 12, 2009
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Adil Najam

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