Articles with tag: poet
Three Poems by Allama Iqbal
Ali Hashmi Nov 14, 2009 interacts: 15‘Maa ka Khwaab’ (A Mother’s Dream) while on the surface a simple description of a mother's dream fearing for her child's safety, is a profound explanation of a core concept in child development, that of 'Separation-Individuation'
Faiz Ahmad Faiz - A Blameworthy Sufi?
Asif Naqshbandi Nov 13, 2009 interacts: 5His works translated into Russian, and a recipient of the USSR's equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Lenin Prize, at heart he still remained loyal, deep down, to his land and its culture and roots.
25 Years On: Remember Faiz
Rakesh Mani Nov 9, 2009 interacts: 31Faiz Ahmed Faiz is still remembered - on the 25th anniversary of his death - as a revolutionary. He was a humanist in the best sense of the word, and his poetry was free of any racial or religious prejudice.
Neruda and Faiz: Great Contemporary Poets
Ikramul Haq Jul 9, 2009 interacts: 12One was honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature and the other with Lenin Peace Prize. Both Neruda and Faiz, like many others, notably Nazim Hikmet and Mahmoud Darwish, were essentially anti-colonialists and anti-imperialists.
When Faiz was Imprisoned
Khalid Sohail May 11, 2009 interacts: 21His sense of guilt as a father, husband and son even made him question the moral basis of his idealistic lifestyle. In one of his letters he wonders whether idealism is one form of selfishness.
Insha'Allah: An Evening Walk in the Time of Terror
Sankrant Sanu Mar 10, 2009 interacts: 9Ma! Terror reigns In each corner. Every criminal Has armed himself Using the name of Allah. Or if not that-Freedom. Or better still-Revolution.
Nightingale of Pukhtoonwala: Rehman Baba
kashkin dabruski Mar 5, 2009 interacts: 4The old Pushtu poet
Carried in his words,
The echoes of peace and music
Khuda Hafiz Faraz Sahib
Ras Siddiqui Nov 16, 2008 interacts: 3It was late when I drove back to Sacramento that night but Faraz Sahib appeared to me to be as fresh as a morning breeze and completely in his element.
Ahmed Faraz (1931-2008) – The Romantic Rebel
Zaki Rahman Oct 12, 2008 interacts: 6To the end of his life, Faraz remained fully committed to the ideals of democracy and justice as witnessed by his close involvement in the lawyers movement of last year.
My Encounter with Ahmed Faraz
Aziz Akhmad Sep 5, 2008 interacts: 10As students at Peshawar, we often saw Faraz on campus. He was a noted poet even then but, among the students on campus, he was equally known, if not more, for his bohemian lifestyle.
In Memory of Ahmed Faraz
kashkin dabruski Aug 25, 2008 interacts: 17We will miss him and words
That breathed revolution
Death can only bring whispers
But words, a torrent of revolution
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
Mutaal Mooquin Aug 26, 2008 interacts: 79"woh koh-kun to naheeN tha leikin
karree chatanouN se larr chuka hei
woh thhak chuka tha aur us ka teisha
usi ke seenay mein garr chuka hei" - Ahmed Faraz
Black Pencils
Fatima Mirza Aug 15, 2008 interacts: 13jehad in a woman?
daggers in a jar full of berry-nectar
pleasant as honey-sugar
ordinary, crowd senses as usual.
Poet for Paperless People
Saeed Urrehman Aug 21, 2008 interacts: 8Darwish was paperless and, because of his defiant words and politics, he was often imprisoned. He kept on honing his words as if they were weapons
Saqi Farooqi ... A Rebellious Poet
Khalid Sohail May 14, 2008 interacts: 22He likes to be in the centre of controversy and to achieve that he challenges every literary, social, religious, moral and sexual taboo that he comes across.
Targeted Taxi Drivers
Lokhi Menon Feb 5, 2008 interacts: 8Day passes and night creeps up over the city,
Suddenly the TV chatters “taxi drivers targeted in Mumbai�
Ghazal from Allama Iqbal, translated by M. Shahid Alam
Mohammad Alam Dec 14, 2007 interacts: 3DigarguN hai jahaN taroN ki gardish tez hai Saqi
Two Poems of Parveen Shakir in Translation
Ravi Kopra Oct 30, 2007 interacts: 1'Pink Flowers' and 'A Message'
A tribute: To Revathy Gopal
Lokhi Menon Oct 13, 2007 interacts: 5We talked just once on the phone
I, the hopeful poet,
you, established and acknowledged,
friendly, kind and encouraging.
Dillu Ram Kausari: The Hindu Poet who Loved The Prophet
Asif Naqshbandi Sep 28, 2007 interacts: 210One quatrain, in particular, shocked the entire community in India, both Muslims and Hindus.
Eternal Destiny
mohsin ahmed Aug 4, 2007 interacts: 2you were an inspiration, a desire, a belief,
we have expectations and wishes, but sometimes disappointment is what we meet,
Meeting Poet Ahmad Faraz
Ras Siddiqui Jul 9, 2007 interacts: 29What do you say when you meet what many consider the greatest living poetic craftsman of the Urdu language today? When you meet Poet Ahmad Faraz, you can pretty much say whatever you want.
An Evening with Ustad Asad Amanat Ali Khan: A Tribute
Asif Naqshbandi Apr 17, 2007 interacts: 31I met Asad Amanat Ali Khan a few years ago; I didn't think I'd never meet him again.
Punjab: The Land of Five Rivers
Nadeem Alam Jan 21, 2007 interacts: 78Its waters have seen life being quenched since centuries. Its trees have embraced the wind that was fragrant by the immortal stories like Heer Ranjha, Sohni Mahiwal and Mirza Sahiban
Rain! Oh Beautiful Rain!
Clytan Fernando Oct 24, 2006 interacts: 5Now that I bedridden lay!
'Come n play' is what you say
Iqbal, Ghalib, Amir Khusraw: Three Masters, Three Poems
Asif Naqshbandi Jul 12, 2006 interacts: 54The Madness of Love by Allama Iqbal - Where I was Last Night by Amir Khusraw Dehlavi - Do Not Be Stingy With the Wine Today by Mirza Ghalib
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi Passed Away
Chowk Staff Jul 11, 2006 interacts: 25The great Urdu poet and short story writer Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi passed away the morning of July 10, 2006, in a local hospital in Lahore.
'Dew from Truth’s Garden'
Asif Naqshbandi Apr 18, 2006 interacts: 10The following translation is of excerpts from a poem by the great scholar-Sufi saint from India, Imam Ahmad Riza Khan, eulogising the Prophet. In these verses he writes of the miraculous qualities of the various body parts of the Beloved Prophet
Hidden Desires
Ozer Khalid Apr 8, 2006 interacts: 39Oh, chaste wither away! And set her lust free--
held incarcerated, long ago a romance ceased to be
to whisper a hymn of infidelity
Tribute to Mother
Vidya Venkat Mar 20, 2006 interacts: 6From that corner of your heart where motherhood
Lay rooted and from those cracks that were formed
Due to suppressed desire burst a fount of fury
Magma
shobig sifar Feb 7, 2006 interacts: 12this lava
needs to be hauled out
but the crust is hard
the peak
severed by ego?
An Ode To Wine
Asif Naqshbandi Nov 30, 2005 interacts: 14The grapevines in Makka are grown
When fully ripened, to Madina are flown!
Shades of Grey
Z Rana Oct 14, 2005 interacts: 35There is something about Faiz that still evokes controversy long after his death. For some he was a great poet, for others a great teacher and a revolutionary ... the problem arises when people confuse Faiz the poet with Faiz the thinker and revolutionary
Freeze Frame
Rajeshwari Bhog Oct 5, 2005 interacts: 15I posted on poetrydotcom
And they told me I won a prize
That made me happy
So happy I went out and ordered a pizza
Hazrat Khansaa
zainab siddique Jul 22, 2005 interacts: 41Khansaa’s (R.A.) poetry has its own value and her poetical genius has always been acknowledged not only during her life time but even today, not only by the pre-Islamic Arab poets but also by people of all the times and places.
Unpoet
Temporal Apr 14, 2005 interacts: 27float and fall like flakes
one after another
in a suffocating embrace
to the ground
unloved and undead
The Easy Path to Publication is paved with Your Dollars
Hafsa Ahsan Mar 30, 2005 interacts: 4The phrase refers more specifically to the working of those organizations which claim to promote writers/poets and their work, yet in reality, their sole function is to extract money from them in the name of contests, services or anthologies.
Sometimes…
Asif Naqshbandi Jan 10, 2005 interacts: 47A translation of Sahir Ludhiyanvi’s Urdu poem, “Kabhi Kabhi”
Ecstasy
Asif Naqshbandi Oct 8, 2004 interacts: 14Affirmation of love whispered in hesitant tones
Two heart-beats echoing with one reverberation
Wannabe Haikus
Harish Nambiar Sep 19, 2004 interacts: 10Please oh please hurl
Bricks at institutions,
Else children will grow up
Thinking bricks only make walls.
I Have Heard That People Look At Her In Amazement
Asif Naqshbandi Jul 21, 2004 interacts: 56sunaa hai bole to baato.n se phuul jha.Date hai.n
ye baat hai to chalo baat kar ke dekhate hai.n
Parveen and Asad
Umair Raja Sep 7, 2003 interacts: 23She is considered by many to be the best Urdu poet of this generation. She is considered by everyone to be one of the best female Urdu poets of all time.
