Adil Najam I have spent much of today reading, remembering and listening to the poetry of Munir Niazi, who died yesterday. This is probably the best way to celebrate the life and work of a poet. The celebration of his work has gone on on this blog from a while (here, here, here and here) […]

Adil Najam Yet another stalwart of Urdu literature is no more. Munir Niazi passed away at the age of 78. As regular readers of this blog know, Munir Niazi is a particular favorite of mine. We have written about him and his poetry earlier (wondering whether it was him in the wonderful re-making of Mehdi […]

Adil Najam Earlier we had done a post on Javed Miandad’s memorable sixer off the very last ball of the match against India at Sharjah in 1986, which clinched the game for Pakistan. We had also included a video of that last over in the post. During the discussion, a number of comments recalled how […]