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Agha Shahid Ali: Chronicler of pain
By Dr. Iffat Maqbool If There Is a Poet, It Is This, It Is This The passing away of Agha Shahid Ali in 2001 was a collective loss to Kashmir- the most eloquent Kashmiri-English poet, a writer of unmatched elegance and virtuosity, a chronicler of pain- his poetry is the very stuff of beauty, loss [...]
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Angels and Snowmen by Agha Shahid Ali
Angels by Agha Shahid Ali In this video, poet Kerry O’Keefe gives an exquisite reading of Angels- a ghazal written by Kashmiri-American poet, Agha Shahid Ali. She is reading at Ali’s gravesite, in Northampton, MA. [Uploaded by Walter Skold on Vimeo.] Snowmen by Agha Shahid Ali This is an animated poem read by Carl [...]
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Editorial: For Agha Shahid Ali, and forever
Tomorrow is December 8, 2012. Eleven years ago on the same day one of the finest English poets, Agha Shahid Ali passed away. Shahid was a Kashmiri-American poet. He wrote, “[...] and I follow him through blood on the road and hundreds of pairs of shoes the mourners left behind, as they ran from the [...]
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Furkan Fazili: Why I write?
I grew up in Kashmir. It is a place where there are different shades to every little possible thing- such beautiful seasons, tears, laughter, untold stories, told stories which can always told in a different colour. So I would say, being a Kashmiri, poetry comes naturally, it is like a child’s curiosity, first to know [...]
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By Ather Zia Our wounds are labeled forgettable, Shahid Our life before death is imperceptible, Shahid Billboards proclaim, Kashmir: A Paradise God has a reason to be chimerical, Shahid Memory threads tied to wooden roses at Khankah Even simple prayers are incomprehensible, Shahid At Naseem Bagh, your presence was ephemeral Now, your absence is a [...]
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I belong to a Valley
By Ikram Ullah I belong to a valley grand Himalayas the Pir Panchal Jehlum’s mystifying tranquility Lidder’s restlessness I belong to a valley forlorn a Stalingrad The Red Square without a Kremlin Wall imperialistic want I belong to a valley so bereft traitors sit on res publica thrones My valley echoes Shurkhs of Nund Reshi [...]
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Art in the Valley of Kashmir
By Fahad Shah Pablo Picasso is not alive but his work tells us stories of his time. His art, displayed in almost every gallery of the world, uniquely depicts human relations, social dissent and sufferings. He gave the world a monumental art work which was created against the bombing of Guernica, Basque Country, by German [...]
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In Pictures | Celebrating Agha Shahid Ali, London
Location: G51 Russell Square , College Buildings . SOAS, Thornhaugh Street Speakers: Kamila Shamsie, Nitasha Kaul, Mirza Waheed.
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“Be’ te chus shahid” | A Play by Arshad Mushtaq
In memory of ’the beloved witness’ Aga Shahid Ali By an electric pole, on the pavement there is a stone. Enters an old man carrying a red box, full of letters . walks past the stone, looks at the pole. Man : Waqh wout hoor, zann siri chu loosnus tayaar, az zan chus be’ setha thokmuth, [...]
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In Pictures | Celebrating Agha Shahid Ali, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Photos: Abir Bashir Bazaz
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In pictures | Celebrating Agha Shahid Ali, Singapore
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In pictures | Celebrating Agha Shahid Ali, Srinagar
[simple_slideshow] Photos by Muhabit-ul-Haq
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