By Akmal Aleemi
Few people go by a single name and they are special. Nawaz was born Karam Nawaz in Kathu Nangal, a small village near Amritsar and migrated to Lahore days before partition along with his family. Soon after completing his school he shed the first name and began writing in Urdu and Punjabi. He died in Lahore on May 10, 1995 of emphysema apparently caused by smoking. It was a day of sacrifice, Eid-al-Azha.
He was inspired by Rajinder Singh Bedi, Krishan Chandar and A. Hamid.
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He is remembered as a member of the so-called Amritsari School of Thought which produced poets Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabbasum, Saif-ud-din Saif, Arif Abdul Mateen, Ahmed Rahi, Shahzad Ahmed, Ahmed Mushtaq, Zaheer Kashmiri: fictionists Saadat Hassan Manto, Zahoor-al-Hassan Dar and A. Hamid and grammarian Zabt Qureshi.
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