Poetic License

The original translation of this poem is thus a sobering and familiar reflection on the state of the country

Unlike Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Shakir Ali and Gulgee, Sadequain left behind no school or students to carry on his work

The poem beautifully evokes the challenges which Kishwar Naheed has encountered, and come to terms with

But reading Jafri’s vicious satire after another horrific tragedy is not an attempt to gloss over the loss of lives

The poem was written in response to an event in Ayub Khan’s Pakistan whence the committee was composed

This poem needs to be read today not only as a tribute to Jatoi but as a valuable document of Pakistan’s history

The revolutionary Pakistani poet Habib Jalib devoted a couple of poems to the brave freedom-fighters of Vietnam

Mohammad Khalid Akhtar paid tribute to his friend by writing a fictional letter written on Manto’s pattern

Fahmida Riaz was one of the rare Pakistani intellectuals who publicly identified as a Marxist

Perhaps the most celebrated poem about Lenin is Iqbal’s “Lenin, Khuda ke Huzoor Mein” (Lenin in God’s...