Archive for January, 2007
hum-zubaaN na milaa…
dayaar-e-dil meN pursaan-e-be-dilaaN na milaa
huaa bhii koii muKhaatib to ham-zabaaN na milaa
voh Khaak-daaN jo banaa haft qila-e-miina
usii ke khaanabadoshoN ko KhaanamaaN na milaa
uroos-e-asmat-e-kirdar ki Khabar mafquud
jab ek baar gayaa, ganj-e-shaae’gaaN na milaa
ye musta’aar tabassum ye mol ka Ghaaza
nishaan-e-anjuman-e-mehr-chagaaN na milaa
vo daGhdaGhe to faqat the qadam uThaane tak
nikal chale to sunaa thaa jo haft-KhwaaN na milaa
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Award to Asad Mohammad Khan
Urdu litterateur and poet Asad Mohammad Khan has been awarded the prestigious Majlis-e-Farogh Urdu Adab Award (Doha, Qatar).
Khan truly deserves the award. His Nazms are well-known but his real strength is in the prose. The stories like ‘Basode ki Maryam’ and ‘Mai Dada’ are truly astounding. If you want to listen the story online [...]
Mahmood Ayaz’ Nazm: Hospital ka Kamraa
‘Hospital ka Kamraa’ is amongst Mahmood Ayaz’ best known Nazm.
‘Hasptaal ka Kamra’
tamaam shab ki dukhan, be-kali, subuk Khwaabhii
namuud-e-sub’h ko darmaaN samajh kar kaaTii hai
ragoN meN dauRte phirte lahuu kii har aahaT
ajal girafta KhayaaloN ko aas detii hai
magar voh aaNkh jo sab dekhtii hai–hanstii hai
ufaq se sub’h kii pahlii kiran ubhartii hai
tamaam raat ki [...]
Controversy over Iqbal award to Sheen Kaf Nizam
Sheen Kaf Nizam alias Shiv Kumar Nizam has been conferred the Madhya Pradesh government’s prestigious Iqbal award.
However, Urdu circles are not exactly happy with the selection. Nizam, an acclaimed poet, is surely not in the league of greats like Qurratul Ain Hyder, Joginder Pal, Sardar Jafri, Jagannath Azad, Upendra Nath Ashk, and Hayatullah Ansari, [...]
Ghalib Award to Balraj Komal, Izhar Asar & other Urdu writers
The Ghalib Awards were recently given away to Urdu litterateurs at a glittering ceremony in Delhi.
Veteran Urdu novelist, poet and writer Izhar Asar got the award for Science Writing. Izhar Asar, whose mystery novels in the decades of 50s and 60s were quite a rage, especially the Nagin series, has done a great job [...]
