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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.
Agha Shahid Ali \ art \ drama \ Kashmir \ kashmiri play \ kashmiri poet \ theatre
“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, [...]
Agha Shahid Ali \ Kashmir \ kashmir poet
In Pictures | Celebrating Agha Shahid Ali, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Photos: Abir Bashir Bazaz
Agha Shahid Ali \ Kashmir \ kashmiri poet \ singapore
In pictures | Celebrating Agha Shahid Ali, Singapore
Agha Shahid Ali \ Kashmir \ kashmiri poet
In pictures | Celebrating Agha Shahid Ali, Srinagar
[simple_slideshow] Photos by Muhabit-ul-Haq
Agha Shahid Ali \ Kashmir \ kashmir poet \ The Country Without a Post Office
I Write To You From Your Very Own Vale
By Fahad Shah In my heart your words reverberate, the heart beats jingle to the rhythm of your poetry. I read you as you wrote the treasure. I try to map a path to your heart. The generous human which you were. I lost you when I didn’t know you well. I am unfortunate that [...]
Agha Shahid Ali \ Kashmir \ rafiq kathwari
MILK OF FISH – A Poem by Rafiq Kathwari
A paradise in pathos Carping at the stars You carp the darkness— With your usual flourish Add a pinch of salt Debone a carp In your carpeted kitchen At Sufia Nishan On empty wine bottles The crap of wax. Discourse on the next course To eat or not the Carp’s [...]
Agha Shahid Ali \ Kamila Shamsie \ Kashmir
Agha Shahid Ali, Teacher
By Kamila Shamsie This is a story that a friend of mine, like myself once a student of Agha Shahid Ali, told me about our former teacher some months after he had first been diagnosed with cancer: Shahid was riding the subway on his way to teach a class when he started to feel faint [...]
Agha Shahid Ali \ America \ Kashmir \ kashmir poetry \ The Country Without a Post Office
A Beloved Witness
By Irfan Hassan On a hot summer evening of 1988, I spotted Aga Shahid Ali on the Residency Road buying Paans at Mir Paan House (his favourite Paan shop). At the first glance he did not recognise me, but welcomed me with a big smile, as he would welcome any friend or stranger. I [...]
Agha Shahid Ali \ India \ Kashmir \ Poetry \ Suvir Kaul
Agha Shahid Ali, 14 Years Ago
This is edited transcript of an interview with Agha Shahid Ali by Suvir Kaul, recorded at the Mass Communications Research Center, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi in August 1997. Suvir Kaul Would you like to talk about your professional life in the US? What encourages you to keep writing? Agha Shahid Ali I [...]
Agha Shahid Ali \ Faiz Ahmed Faiz
You Tell Us What to Do
By Faiz Ahmed Faiz Translated by Agha Shahid Ali When we launched life on the river of grief, how vital were our arms, how ruby our blood. With a few strokes, it seemed, we would cross all pain, we would soon disembark. That didn’t happen. In the stillness of each wave we found invisible currents. [...]
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