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Articles by: Dr Afzal Mirza

Reading Ghalib in Punabi

Dr Afzal Shahid is a physicist by profession but a prolific w riter of Urdu and Punjabi poetry. He has written more than half a dozen books of verses and all that by sitting in Atlanta (Georgia). After a PhD in physics and a .....

Realistic and balanced

I first read some Urdu poems of Sharif Kunjahi in one of the magazines of the progressive writers movement which was at its peak during the first few years after partition. The movement which was initiated just before World War II was ....

The lyrical poet of Punjab

It was some time in 1952 that Ahmad Rahi's first book of Punjabi poetry appeared under the title of Trinjan. The book directly touched the sensibility of the reader The theme of partition inspired many writers, mostly prose writers. Among them ....

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Ustad Daman lived and wrote poetry as someone always on the wrong side of the establishment Ustad Daman was last seen on the funeral of Faiz Ahmad Faiz on November 20 1984. He appeared terribly ill but ......

The Master of His Own Words

Whatever little Punjabi poetry Faiz wrote proves the point that the real concerns of the masses can be conveyed only in their mother tongue Faiz is and remains the most outstanding Urdu poet of the second half of the .........