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  • Lt Governor pays tributes to legendary poet & freedom fighter Shri Sarwanand Koul Premi on his death anniversary

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    JAMMU, MAY 01: Lieutenant Governor Shri Manoj Sinha paid tributes to legendary poet and freedom fighter Shri Sarwanand Koul Premi Ji on his death anniversary, today.

    On May 01, 1990, Shri Sarwanand Koul Premi was killed by terrorists.

    Remembering Sarwanand Koul Premi, the Lt Governor said Sarwanand Ji was a towering man of ideas and ideals. He was undoubtedly one of the greatest writers of his time with deep commitment for upliftment of downtrodden & weaker sections of society, the Lt Governor added.

    “Sarwanand ji made great contribution to freedom struggle and infused new life in the bonds of our national unity. Throughout his life, he followed the universal and eternal values of peace, co-existence and cooperation,” said the Lt Governor.

    Jammu Kashmir is called the heaven on earth, not only because of its scenic beauty, but the great personalities like Sarwanand ji, who dedicated his life to serve the others, observed the Lt Governor.

    “Sarwanand ji was not only a famous writer but also a well known teacher in Kashmir valley who became the medium of divinity for many and inspired the masses to follow the ideals enshrined in our ageless culture and selflessly served the society,” said the Lt Governor.

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    ( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

  • Aishmuqam’s Young Poet Wrote his 2nd Poetry Book SADA E DIL.

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    Sheikh Nadeem

    Anantnag: A Youth from Aishmuqam area of Anantnag district in South Kashmir gave up her higher studies and even his passion for reading poetry and literature for over years to come up with his own Second poetry collection – ‘SADA E DIL’

    Born and brought up in Ashmuqam locality of Anantnag town, has recently published his 2ND book of Poetry Collection.

    Yass Muqami claimed that the book has a variety of poems and main focus is on various faces of life, including kindness, love, hate, struggles, fate, emotions, suffering, and other things.

    He advised Kashmir’s younger generation, to focus on your dreams and work hard to attain them because the Valley is full of talented young people.

    Yass told that he started writing from 2015 and completed it in 2018 and finally it was Published March 20 2023.

    He thanks to Irshad Ahmad Ganaie who wrote Book Preface besides encouraged and boosted his poetic Techinques.

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    ( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

  • Azra Raza: A doctor who is poet at heart

    Azra Raza: A doctor who is poet at heart

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    Hyderabad: Her prefix is doctor. But it could well have been an author. Faced with a career choice, she picked up the stethoscope. But later she plunged for the pen as well. And now she wields both of them with equal ease. So much so that sometimes it becomes difficult to tell the doctor from the writer.

    That’s Dr. Azra Raza for you. An oncologist by profession and a writer by passion. This Pakistan-born Professor of Medicine is making waves as a cancer expert and also as an author of no mean repute. While her research on myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukaemia showed that low blood counts were not a result of bone marrow failure but the effect of a hyper-proliferative state in the marrow tissue, her books have received critical acclaim and brought out the sensitive writer in her. Dr. Raza expresses her passion best by quoting Hamlet:

    This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou canst not then be false to any man

    It might sound unusual for a health professional to be so passionate about poetry. But Dr. Raza thinks otherwise. For her poetry and science are the two sides of the same coin since both require creativity to unravel the mystery. “Knowing about human genomics is pure poetry. Both poetry and science go for the grand themes of life,” she once remarked.

    Right from her childhood Dr. Raza was attracted to both science and literature. Her obsession with ants led her to read all about biology and pathology of myeloid malignancies. “If I had grown up in the West, I am confident that I would be a scientist and not physician,” she told an interviewer many years later. In pursuit of her dream she landed up in the US soon after graduating from the Dow Medical College, Karachi. She started working at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. A bright student, she became a full-fledged professor at the Rush University in Chicago when she was just 39. Later she was named the first Director of the Division of Haematology and Oncology at the University of Massachusetts.

    As her career looked up, Dr. Raza dedicated herself to grander themes. She focused all her expertise in finding the cause and cure of cancer. All through her research it was humanism that was the guiding principle of her philosophy. She realised that human conduct is governed by a series of incidents where one act is the result of another. She started harnessing all her knowledge and desires for the service of humanity. Her practice and ultimate goals underwent subtle changes. “Each individual patient acquired a special place in my life and caring for their physical and emotional needs became my prime concern,” says Dr. Raza who lost her husband, Harvey Preisler, to cancer. Interestingly, both of them had worked hard to find a cure for the disease.

    In an interview given to Scott Douglas Jacobsen of In-Sight, she reveals many facets of her life. Her exemplary work in cancer research helped her bag many awards including the prestigious Hope Award for Cancer Research. After the death of her husband, she became a voracious reader. She gobbled up the 100 Great Books of the Western Literary Tradition right from Euripides and Aeschylus to Rushdie and Morrison. Poetry also proved a great motivator for her. She loves to read Shakespeare, Dante, Milton and quotes Ghalib at the drop of a hat. Her perfect recital of long ghazals by rote leaves one speechless.

    While contributing to numerous medical journals, Dr Raza has made a mark as a creative writer. She has written a total of six books. Her book, The First Cell, makes an interesting read. It explores cancer from every angle – medical, scientific, cultural and personal. She has also come up with an interesting book on Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, one of the greatest of Urdu poets. In her book, A Tribute to Ghalib, Dr. Raza reinterprets 21 ghazals of the maestro along with co-author, Sara Suleri Goodyear. The book tries to illustrate the great range of the poet’s work.

    Dr. Raza continues her dalliance with medicine and literature. Despite her awesome credentials she persists with hard since she believes success is not something to be achieved but must be won continuously. As Mark Twain remarked, continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Allama Iqbal was a poet par excellence and Sufi

    Allama Iqbal was a poet par excellence and Sufi

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    Recently I was watching a very short video.  the speaker was talking about one of the couplets from Zarb-e-Kaleem, a long poem written by Allama Iqbal.

    It prompted me to look into it. No sooner I scratched the surface a whiff of Iqbal’s spiritual life touched my inner being and coaxed me to find the essence of this poetry.

    I started to shake the tree of Iqbal’s life and the flowers of his mystical and lyrical journey dropped in my lap. One by one I picked the flowers and weaved a festoon with a thread of his rainbow color concepts. His poetic compositions are rejuvenating and thought-provoking that carry the beautiful shades of humanity, peace, divinity, love of God, Holy Prophet and the Holy Quran.

    The literal translation of Zarb-e-Kaleem is the strike of Moses’ Staff, but the conceptual meaning is “A Declaration of War Against the Present Times.” He composed Zarb-e-Kaleem in 1936 during his stay at Sheesh Mahal, when he went to Bhopal at the invitation of Nawab Hamidullah Khan. The poetry Zarb-e-Kaleem (Satan to his political offspring) is his manifesto that was meant to rescue the Muslims from the harms brought on by modern civilization, just as Moses had rescued the Israelites.

    The poetry is nothing but Iqbal’s prediction about the present-time and political upheaval that changes the façade of India, Afghanistan, Europe, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It’s mind-boggling how he predicts the future in a lyrical form without going wrong. Did he have a supernatural intuition that guided him to communicate the events in store? Was he getting some messages in his dream to write or warn the coming generation?

    There were two incidents in his life that compel us to think that some unseen power was guiding him. The first incident was narrated by Allama Iqbal’s daughter Munira Salahuddin and his grandson Iqbal Salahuddin.

    “Iqbal was a devotee of the great Turkish scholar Maulana Jalal Uddin Rumi. Iqbal describes himself as Mureed-e-Hindi (devotee from India) and Maulana as Pir-e-Rumi. The family of Allama Iqbal possesses a letter written by him to his friend Maharaja Kishan Prasad, Prime Minister to Nizam of Hyderabad when he was writing Asrar-e-Khudi (The Secrets of the Self) — published in Persian in 1915 and his first philosophical poetry book.

    The letter contains a lot of secret conversations that happened between Allama Iqbal and Maulana Rumi in his imagination. “He (Iqbal) had requested his friend Prasad to burn a specific part of the letter because he wanted to keep his imaginative conversations with Maulana a secret. But he (Prasad) didn’t burn it and it is on record. Iqbal has also mentioned where he saw Rumi in his dream and got the guidance for writing Masnavi,”

    The actual narrator of the second incident is Allama Iqbal’s domestic servant Ali Bakhsh.

    “One night Iqbal called me into his room. It was quite late; I saw that a very pious man with a bright face was sitting on the sofa and Iqbal was on the floor pressing his legs. I had never seen that guest before in my life. Iqbal asked me to bring three glasses of sweet lassi. I was astonished because it was impossible to find it at that time. I left the house and saw another pious man selling milk and yogurt. I went there and asked him for three glasses of sweet lassi. He gave it to me in a bowl but when I tried to pay him, he plainly refused and said, ‘It is ok between me and Iqbal.’ Later, I gave it to Iqbal and he filled the first glass of lassi and presented it to the pious guest. After the guest drank it Iqbal presented him with another glass. But when he presented him with a third glass he refused to take it and said, ‘You should drink too.’ Then Iqbal asked me to leave. After some time, he called me again and asked me to accompany the guest to the door. The pious guest was ahead of me and as I reached the gate, I saw the guest disappear on the road. When I looked around, neither there was any shop, nor the pious shopkeeper. I was shocked. I asked Iqbal about the two pious persons but he refused to tell me. Nonetheless, I kept on asking him for the next few days. At last he told me that the pious guest sitting in the room was Hazrat Khwaja Moin ud Din Chishti and the pious shopkeeper was Hazrat Ali Hajveri known as Daata Ganj Bakhsh. But he forbade me from telling it to anyone else.” Dr. Javed Iqbal son of Allama Iqbal also verified that Ali Bakhsh also told him about it.

    These two incidents tell that Iqbal was not a mere poet, but was a spiritual man inclined towards mysticism and a model of a wide range of social, cultural, political and religious phenomena.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Renowned poet Amjad Islam Amjad passes away at 78

    Renowned poet Amjad Islam Amjad passes away at 78

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    Renowned poet, dramatist, and columnist Amjad Islam Amjad passed away on Friday from a heart attack in Lahore. He was 78.

    Amjad Islam Amjad suffered a cardiac arrest on Friday morning and was rushed to a hospital where he breathed his last, his family confirmed to the media.

    Amjad Islam Amjad was born on August 4, 1944, in Lahore, he completed his Master in Arts–Urdu from Punjab University in 1967. He was also the editor of Punjab University’s magazine ‘Mohoor’. 

    After completing his education, he was associated with MAO College Lahore for many years, where he served as a teacher in the Urdu department. 

    In August 1975, Amjad Islam Amjad was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Punjab Art Council. After some time, he came back to MAO College as a teacher. During his long government service, he was also the Director of Children Complex Lahore for some time.

    Amjad Islam Amjad earned a lot of fame in drama writing, with several under his byline which can hardly ever be erased from the minds of his audience. His most popular dramas include Waris, Din, Dehleez, Shashar among others.

    He also translated the poetries of the African poets in Urdu called Kale Logon ki Roshan Nazmein.

    The lines of one of his poem go like this:

    Woh Joh Gheet Tum Ne Suna Nahi
    Meri Umar Bhar Ka Riaz Tha
    Mere Dard Ki Thi Dastan
    Jisay Tum Hansi Mein Ura Gaye

    He was honoured with many awards for his literary work and screenplays for TV including Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pride of Performance, Nigar Award. He received the Nigar Award for Best Film Writer twice.

    Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also expressed his grief over the death of Amjad Islam Amjad. 

    He wrote on Twitter that a great era of Urdu literature ended with the death of the renowned poet and intellectual Amjad Islam Amjad.

    Social media users in Pakistan are expressing grief over the death of Amjad Islam Amjad. His admirers, including Pakistani President Arif Alvi, are sharing his poetry and calling his death a great loss to Urdu literature.

    Pakistani actors and celebrities are among those who mourned his death.



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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )