Re: who would be the urdu poet of the century?
KIYYYYYYYYAAAA BAAAT HAI…!!!
Khush Kardiya…
Yaadein taaza kardeen…Dhakay Ki, Lahore ki sard shamon raaton ki, Karachi ki gulabi mehfiloun ki…aur shiddat se yaad agaya iss waqt woh azeemushaan mushaira 1968 ka…Pak Arts Council Kay Open Air theatre ka…jisme shu’rka thhay; Josh malihabadi, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Ibne Insha, Nasir Kazmi, Athar Nafees, Rais Amrohi, Sehba Akhtar, Habib Jalib, Jamiluddin Aali, Iftikhar Arif, Obaidullah Aleem, Shan’ul’Haq Haqqee, Saleem Ahmed, Jamal Panipati, Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, Jon Ailya…list khatam na honay wali…
Kiya MUSHAIRA thaah woh…k Pakistan ki tareeq mein aisa nahon hosakta…and PTV recorded it…and finally much to the disdain and curse of disaster–erased it…eventually. I was there at that mushaira with my Dad…on that beautiful evening of December at that (lost now) peaceful city of Pakistan’s heart, liver and soul–then…KARACHI.
YAAD E MAAZI AZAAB HAI YA RAB…
CHEEHN LE MUJH SE HAAFIZA MERA…
Keep up this thread please…
-Raju