Munir Niazi Passes Away
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 Posted in Literature, Urdu Poetry | 2 Comments »innaa lillaahe va inna ilaihe raajiuun To Allah We Belong And To Him We Shall Return As if the loss of Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi was not big enough for us comes the shocking news of the demise of Munir Niazi. For many ...
Jan Nisar Akhtar’s 30th Death Anniversary
Saturday, August 26th, 2006 Posted in Aligarh Memories, India, Literature, Urdu Poetry | 7 Comments »It was in my mind till very recently but then I forgot. 19th Aug 2006 was the thirteeth death anniversary of Jan Nisar Akhtar, an accomplished lyricist and poet. He was also the father of Javed Akhtar, husband of Safiya ...
A Tribute To Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi
Sunday, July 16th, 2006 Posted in India, Literature, Pakistan, Urdu Poetry | 6 Comments »ai Khudaa ab tere firdaus pe meraa haq hai tuune is daur ke dozaKh meN jalaayaa hai mujhe O God! Now, I have a right on your paradise You have scorched me in the hell, that is this era Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi (1916 - ...
A Nice Hindi Poetry Blog - Kavyagagan
Monday, June 5th, 2006 Posted in India, Literature | 1 Comment »I first read Renu Ahuja when she posted an eulogy to Meena Kumari at one of her poems. She is one of the few (but gradually increasing) Indian bloggers who write in vernacular languages, in this case Hindi in Devanagari ...
