Work and life of Munir Badini hailed

ISLAMABAD:

Over 100 novels written by Munir Ahmad Badini in the Balochi language are an asset of Balochi and Balochistan’s literary heritage.

These views were expressed by Qazi Javed during an online meeting held in honour of Kamal-e-Fun Award 2018 winner Badini. The online event had been organised by the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL).

Talking about his writings and life, Badini said that everything that he has done has been in the service of knowledge and literature.

“I have been attached to books since childhood and when I started writing, I wrote what I had felt and saw around me,” the writer said, adding, “The award has inspired me to write even more.”

PAL Chairman Dr Yousuf Khushk said that Badini espouses the dignity of Pakistani literature.

“No writer in any language has written so many novels,” he said, adding that Badini had written short stories and dramas as well.

Most of his novels, he said, cover the social, cultural situation of Baloch and Balochistan. He does not consider literature to be philosophy, he talks about humanity along with philosophical things in his writings.

Qazi Javed said that Badini has enriched Balochi literature with his plays, novels and travelogues. They cover topics such as life, justice, morality, freedom, and human conscience.

“Inside every creator, there is an anxious soul that brings things out and the writer presents in his writings,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 10^th, 2020.