Jashn-i-Faraz: My Encounter With Ahmed Faraz

Posted on September 3, 2008
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Aziz Akhmad This is not a eulogy to Ahmed Faraz, for I never knew Faraz personally. Nor is it a comment on his poetry – I am not qualified to do that. It is just a memory of a few impersonal encounters with Faraz , which came rushing to my mind when I heard of […]

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

Posted on September 2, 2008
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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 […]

Ahmed Faraz (1931-2008): Abb kay hum bichRay…

Posted on August 25, 2008
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The wit, wisdom and craft of Ahmad Faraz.

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