Raza Rumi Aggrieved by the recent sinister, senseless violence and brutal murders in Karachi, this is my feeble attempt at poetic expression. I have also trans-created this Urdu poem below titled Adrift. Jal gaya – tha ik roshniyon ka shaher Jal gaya – tha ik roshniyon ka shaher Bujh gaye kitnay jaltay aur adh-jalay chiragh […]
Raza Rumi The current political dramas, uncertainty and confusion seem to be extraordinary. But is this really that unusual? History, if anything, has prepared us for the bizarre and the peculiar. I was therefore prompted to jog my memory and dig out snippets that remain semi-buried in my fallible mind. Colonel Ilahi Bux, the personal […]
Raza Rumi Lahore’s eclectic past was dazzling. Prior to the partition of India, it was a cosmopolitan centre and later retained its primacy as Pakistan’s cultural capital though it lost its inclusive atmosphere. This is a city where Bapsi Sidhwa’s characters lived, Allama Iqbal wrote and recited his high-poetry and Amrita Sher-Gil painted her immortal […]
