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Of Marx and mahtaranis: Re-reading Sadequain’s rubaiyat on his 90th birthday
Unlike Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Shakir Ali and Gulgee, Sadequain left behind no school or students to carry on his work
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Reading Kishwar Naheed’s ‘Horoscope’ on her 80th birthday
The poem beautifully evokes the challenges which Kishwar Naheed has encountered, and come to terms with
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How Syed Mohammad Jafri’s satirical take on PIA went from comic to tragic
But reading Jafri’s vicious satire after another horrific tragedy is not an attempt to gloss over the loss of lives
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Revisiting Syed Mohammad Jafri’s biting poem ‘Ruet-e-Hilal Committee’
The poem was written in response to an event in Ayub Khan’s Pakistan whence the committee was composed
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The Mao of Sindh: Remembering Hyder Bux Jatoi 50 years on
This poem needs to be read today not only as a tribute to Jatoi but as a valuable document of Pakistan’s history
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“The people’s poet is your balladeer”: Revisiting Habib Jalib’s tribute to Ho Chi Minh on his 130th birthday
The revolutionary Pakistani poet Habib Jalib devoted a couple of poems to the brave freedom-fighters of Vietnam
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Revisiting Manto’s ‘Last Letter to Uncle Sam’ on his 108th birthday
Mohammad Khalid Akhtar paid tribute to his friend by writing a fictional letter written on Manto’s pattern
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“What a man was born”: Reading Fahmida Riaz’s heartfelt tribute to Karl Marx on his 202nd birthday
Fahmida Riaz was one of the rare Pakistani intellectuals who publicly identified as a Marxist
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“Go bid the wretched of my earth to awake”: Celebrating Iqbal’s Lenin on his 150th birthday
Perhaps the most celebrated poem about Lenin is Iqbal’s “Lenin, Khuda ke Huzoor Mein” (Lenin in God’s...
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Revisiting the work of Shakeel Badayuni on his 50th death anniversary
Badayuni came of age in the heady days of the 1950s and 1960s, when revolution was the dominant theme in Urdu poetry