Adil Najam These are distressing times. But this is not a time to be depressed. This is a time, as Owais reminds us in his last post, to reaffirm our hopes for the future. True defeat would be to give up on those hopes. I have put up the splash image (on the front page) […]
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 […]
August 26, 2007 was the 250th urs of Bulleh Shah. ATP had this post on the same occasion last year. This year we are bringing Raza’s wonderful writing on Bulleh Shah below. Raza Rumi The need to be understood has always remained integral to human existence. It is through the expression of “humanness” and the […]