WHILE THERE IS LIGHT by Tariq Mehmood
While There is Light Tariq Mehmood’s novel , While There is Light, impresses Mike Phillips Courtesy: The Guardian-UK While There is Light by Tariq Mehmood 220pp, Comma, £7.95 The novel opens with a sentence from a letter written by Saleem, a young Muslim on remand in Leeds. “Mother, I am now in jail, in this bitch of a country called England. I may never see you again.” … Read entire article »
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Poem: Waris Shah Vs Aitzaz Ahsan
by Bradistan Waris Shah Vs. Aitzaz Ahsan (In the Court of Supreme Judge ALLAH The Almighty) A Tribute to Late Amrita Pritam aaj aakhaaN Aitzaz nuuN aaj aakhaN AITZAZ AHSAN nuuN, kitoN Chamber vichchoN bol, te aaj kitab-e -Knoon daa koii aglaa varkaa phol ik Uthyaa sii Wada Kanoon Daan, tuuN likh likh maare Byaan, aaj SWAT DE Dhiyaan rondiaa, tainuN Aitzaz Ahsan nuN kahen Jaag dardmandaaN diaa dardiaa, Jaag Pakistani Jaag … Read entire article »
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Interview:British-Pakistani Novelist Tariq Mehmood
UK Political Debate: Q & A with Tariq Mehmood Tariq Mehmood is a broadcaster, writer and filmmaker. His first two novels are both set in Bradford UK. He has published two illustrated books for children. Tariq co-directed the award winning documentary Injustice. He is the editor of Sangi, the only magazine in his mother tongue, Pothowari in UK. Tariq and Rock musician Aki Nawaz host the Political Show “The Point” in UK on sky satellite 836. Tariq is visiting Pakistan to cover current political situation. … Read entire article »
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Literature is not a hobby — Iftikhar Arif
Naseer Ahmad Iftikhar Arif was catapulted into the spotlight in the 1970s when he appeared in PTV’s quiz programme Kasauti. As a bespectacled, sparkling young man, he mesmerised the millions of audience across the nation with the range of his knowledge and intelligence. With Obaidullah Baig and Quraishpur, both profound scholars, as his senior partners at the progamme, he would identify studio audience’s guessed personality, historical incident or structure by asking up to 20 questions. But few among his audience knew him as a poet. At PTV he was a scripts editor. But the thrill of appearing in a popular programme, when PTV was the only channel available to Pakistani audience, had swept his other attributes out of sight. In an interview with Dawn at Qasr-i-Naz last Sunday, he recalls how he … Read entire article »
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ashes to ashes jalo aur jalao
temporal photo- rumana husain flare glares burns, rages kehti hay jalo jalao jalo aur jalao fire prostrating to clay, as satan twirls moustaches this is not the ire of rome nor the liquid rave that separated noah beware for He is father of all fire, fury and furor merciful, graceful wrathful, unforgiving maloom hay humaiN yeh aag nahiN bajooz oos aag kay jo kisi aanay walay lumhay maiN sub aalamouN ko chupa laigi apnay shikanja e zeest maiN her smile a glimpse of the promised inferno big bang beginning of molten passion petrified heaven’s rage creative, consuming enraged … Read entire article »
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Dummy Online
temporal Dummy Online is hosted by a clean-cut, metrosexual, chikkoo. Dr.2. He is reputed to have bought a second doctorate from a mail order university for $250. Why he did that will be examined in another post. Dr. 2 fancies himself a lot. He jerks off looking at himself, it has been reported. … Read entire article »
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grain of sand
temporal a granite rock ensconced on a peak aloof, majestic, on top of the world fell in love with a coquettish cloud floating miles from ocean spreading shadow-relief over parched fields and plains hiding in its bosom water, sound, fury and … Read entire article »
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Tennyson's Brook: Pakistan's Crook
temporal I come from haunts of boot and ‘urn, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out a new pattern, To bicker down a valley. … Read entire article »
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segueing slogans of the year that was (2007)
by temporal in forms and flavours — none tasty, it descends for the thief of baghdad it was sudden blackness amidst shouts of allah o akbar for the feudal daughter of sind shouts of ji’yay bhutto reverberated between shots between denial implosions …………………and self explosions cremations and burials life collected shards of dreams conscience shriveled, hope sighed and …………………..lucifer danced slogans segued colours of death —parched brown, uranium tipped gray hopeless-muddy in waters of oceans ………………….and rivers and the kids played with their broken tonka trucks … Read entire article »
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"Arey LaRkay" – Remembering Mushfiq Khwaja (1935–2005)
by temporal “Arey Larkay, go to the fourth room, third shelf from the right and fourth from the top, and bring me the seventh book from the right.” I looked in amazement as the servant whom he always referred to as Larka or larkay reappeared in a few minutes with an autographed book by historian and critic Qazi Abdul Wadood of Patna. Mushfiq sahib turned the pages, stopped at a page and read me some lines backing up what he was saying. … Read entire article »
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Mushtaque Ahmed Yusufi – An Introduction
Baithak We are the music makers, And we are the makers of dreams …We are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever it seems … Read entire article »
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What ‘trilingual’ mess?
When Guru Dutt Sondhi, the first Indian principal of Lahore’s Government College staged his Shakespeare plays there, he could hardly have imagined that someone in his Sondhi Translation Society would complain that Pakistan’s “trilingual” system has killed all creativity. This is what has happened on Tuesday at a seminar on Trend of Translation in Social Sciences and Related Issues organised by the Sondhi Translation Society at the Government College University. A speaker absurdly announced that the “trilingual mess” of English, Urdu and Punjabi had ruined the creativity of Pakistani students. These languages, he said, “have become the lingual phenomena of our nation”. He was convinced that the ability in Pakistan to read English was a negative factor as it prevented the need to translate English works into Urdu. The next step … Read entire article »
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Pakistan's media opinion – the column industry
April 9th, 2008 | 5 Comments
Raza Rumi On the flourishing ‘column’ industry despite the slow growth of readership’ What is so peculiar about the Pakistani media opinion factories churning out problems and solutions products day after day? Frankly, they are self perpetuating oligarchies and boring at best. The slightly discerning mortals who browse the daily newspapers in English and vernacular languages or bother to engage with the electronic media discussions are struck by certain repetitive trends. Let me map them out before … Read entire article »
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