Physicist speculates that “there will be different histories for different possible states of the universe at the present time.” Why not? But that could be true at an ordinary level too. ...
The British historian of French literature, L. Cazamian, says about Moliere that his “conception of upright womanwood is in touch with this ideal”, i.e. faith in essential worth of human ...
Yesterday, on the roadside, I was startled to see a billboard carrying Elizabeth Browning’s line, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”, in bold letters. It transpired that it ...
Mahvish Ahmad says about the use of the word “revolution” by Tahirul Qadiri and his crowd “perhaps they had an unrevolutionary definition of revolution” (An English daily, ...
Anyone, one supposes, can write about anyone. But one must be an exceptionally good writer to create a portrait. Thus, I found Khushwant Singh’s “Women and Men in My Life” (1995) ...
Pamila Nightingale says: “Haider Ali, the Mysorean leader, was an upstart adventurer, who had displaced the old royal house and with ruthless ability sought to extend his power over southern ...
Ashfaq Saleem Mirza says there are two major martyrs in South Asia, Bhagat Singh and Hassan Nasir. They gave their lives fighting against tyrannical rulers. “But their sacrifices could not ...
Iqbal was of the opinion that poetry should be translated into another language only in prose. This, I suppose, is the most sensible suggestion. In reading poetry, one feels before one understands. ...
Dr Samuel Johnson worked for a bookseller, Osborne, who had bought the Earl of Oxford’s library for Pounds 13,000 in 1743. Johnson’s job was to prepare a catalogue of the newly-acquired ...
Why should I want to hide it? I like Paul Verlaine. He is a good poet. He does not complicate things and says what he feels with unmatched lyricism. His accent is soft, almost a whisper. Among the ...
I looked long for Zaheer Dehlavi’s Dastan-e-Ghadar, as it had been mentioned by a number of writers as an accurate account of the impact of our First War of Independence on Delhi. But it was ...
Ghalib is prepared to compromise:“Naheen nigar ko ulfat na ho, nigar tau hai, Ravani-e-ravish-o-masti-e-ada kahye.”That means going as far as the other wants to. Not to push ...
It is quite incredible how lightly portentous decisions were taken.” This is how General Khadim Husain Raja, GOC commanding, Dhaka, comments on the conduct of the military leadership in ...
The renowned French sociologist, Raymond Aaron, proved, at least to his own satisfaction, that classes had ceased to exist in the modern advanced societies due to the high degree of social mobility. ...
Poetry had been there from time immemorial. It had adapted itself to the new trends in every period, including that of the British occupation and the inevitable ascendance of the English language. ...
The AFP reports that “the rate of suicide among the women in India was three times higher than in high-income countries, but tapered off among women who were either divorced, widowed or ...
One can be a good poet and a bad revolutionary. Or a poor one. In my college days, long, long ago, our history teacher did not take the French revolution of 1848 seriously. Maybe, he thought that a ...
The teacher, explaining the French Revolution to a junior class, simplifies it. Two writers, Voltaire and Rousseau, wrote books about the absence of freedom and democracy in France. People read these ...
The literatures of small countries seem unable to rise above the size of their birthplaces. When we speak of classical literature, we think of Russia and France, of England and Germany.Albania, which ...
Sibte Hassan begins his encompassing criticism of Professor Askari with “Professor Mohammad Hasan Askari was a distinguished writer of Urdu” and then traces his ...
Getting rid of old papers can be tiring. I was going through a pile of notebooks. There were old drafts - drafts of short articles, of long articles, occasionally reminiscences. Mon Dieu (my God in ...
It appears the conditions of a pastoral economy are the most conducive to the blossoming of love. That is why many of our greatest stories of love belong to either the age of the pastoral mode of ...
Agha Nasir, in his book on the Pakistani television (“This is PTV”, Published by PTV, 2011), relates that Nasir Kazmi often talked to him of his great desire to do a television programme, ...
Do the folk tales of a nation give one a good idea of its thinking, or better, its outlook? In a Russian tale, a girl is walking in her garden. A handsome young man passing by on his horse, sees her, ...
Tolstoys character, Andrei Bolkonsky, says: I said such women should be forgiven. Not that I could forgive one. Now where does that leave one?
Obviously, it will not do. How about Kafkas Trial? The ...
Irshad Ahmed Panjabi has done a useful social job with his book, Panjab ki Aurat, which traces the condition of woman from birth to death. He describes the customs observed at various stages of life, ...
A. Hameed of the sentimental school of Urdu fiction has written some good stories in that genre. But the genre is itself difficult to handle, ever threatening to descend into sentimental pulp. It is ...
Pandit Ratan Nath Dar Sarshar, one of the greatest artists of Urdu prose, was born around 1840 in Lucknow, where his father, a Kashmiri Pandit, had settled. In addition to a classical education, he ...
Bernard Shaw explained about a play that he had written in verse because he did not have the time to write it in prose. T.S. Eliot countered that Shaw was saying that it was easier to write bad ...
Apnay hi gul hain bayessay barbadiyay chaman,
Sayyaad say khafa hain na barq-o-sharar say log.
Arshad Multani.
Yes, there are other kinds of poetry too:
Il pleut doucement sur la ville.
Rimbaud ...
Saturday, 18 May, 2013
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