ATP Mushaira: Anwar Masood

Posted on March 26, 2008
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Adil Najam I want to introduce this new (hopefully regular) feature at ATP. (Actually, if you press the ‘ATP Mushaira‘ category you will find that this is the second installment in this category; the first being our little Faiz Mela on Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s birthday.) Of course, poetry has been a regular and favorite subject […]

Ibn-e-Insha: nagri nagri phira musafir

Posted on February 6, 2008
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Asma Mirza sadd rang meri mauj hay, main tab’ey rawaa’n hoon This verse always crosses my mind whenever the name of Ibn-e-Insha is mentioned around. A poet, columnist, humorist, and travelogue writer loved for past five decades by Urdu language readers around the globe. I still remember the first time I got introduced to Insha […]

Shakeb Jalali: aa ke patthar to mere sehn mein..

Posted on September 30, 2007
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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 […]

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