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Reading Sulaiman Areeb’s ode to man’s immortality on his 50th death anniversary
In his short life, Areeb managed to release only two collections of poetry
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Would Fahmida Riaz have refused the presidential award?
Dr Ujan’s courageous action confirms her as a great daughter of a great writer
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Revisiting Qalandar Momand’s landmark ‘Address to Khyber’ on his 90th birthday
This collection established Momand as one of the most influential and greatest Pashto poets of the 20th century
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Reading Amrita Pritam’s biting polemic on her 101st birthday
Amrita Pritam published more than 100 books over the course of her life
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How Fahmida Riaz and Ishrat Afreen’s writing evokes the tragedy of Karbala
The corpus of Urdu literature is rich with commemorations of Karbala and odes to its martyrs
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Reading Zaheer Kashmiri’s short and brutal dirge for womanhood on his 101st birthday
Kashmiri is regarded among the very few prominent poets who gave a new colour to Urdu poetry, especially the ghazal
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Fahmida Riaz’s dirge for Sheikh Mujibur Rahman reflects the tragedy of a nation
Rahman led Bangladesh for only four years prior to his ouster from power and subsequent assassination
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Rahat Indori’s haunting last ghazal
The ghazal is a revelation of the poet’s own awareness of his approaching death
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‘Come to Lebanon’: How Habib Jalib’s verses still urge us to not ignore the country
Habib Jalib has written numerous poems on Palestine and the Lebanese Civil War
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Revisiting Zehra Nigah’s ode to Dr Ruth Pfau on her third death anniversary
The poem compares Pfau to a blue-eyed sparrow arriving in a veritable desert
