Gone though not forgotten: Remembering a heavyweights of Urdu literature
Anwar Maqsood vocalization during a Arts Council during Urdu novel discussion on Dec 5, 2016. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI: Bajia usually had 3 things in life – love, plants and books. After she upheld away, her books were donated to a Ghalib Library, plants were given to her siblings while her adore has been widespread in a city, reminisced Anwar Maqsood about his elder sister, Fatima Surayya Bajia, who was a remarkable Urdu playwright and novelist.
He was vocalization on a final day of a ninth Aalmi Urdu Conference on Sunday during a ‘Yaad-e-Raftagaan’ session. The event was moderated by Javed Hassan and was reason to remember a over souls who spent their lives portion a Urdu denunciation as authors or poets.
“It is improved to remember these people as mislaid ones though not left ones,” pronounced Maqsood, reading an letter he wrote for his sister. She was innate among books and a consanguine grandfather initial let her reason a pen, that she never let go of via her life, he recalled.
Bajia was 13 years aged when she wrote her initial novel and was married during a age of 17 though motionless to travel out of a matrimony and lapse to her family when she was usually 19.
Maqsood remembered how she had a special bond with their mother, whom they called ‘Pashi’. “Bajia and Pashi always wore white saris and blouses and, with a flitting of time, Bajia got white hair, too,” he said, adding that whenever he asked her to color her hair, she would contend ‘black is a colour of anguish while white is not’.
Bajia started training during a propagandize when her father died and a shortcoming of her 10 siblings’ gratification fell on her shoulders. A crony of her father’s asked
her to write for PTV, for that she shifted to Islamabad. “She used to write while sitting on a building and always shouted her square to Pashi first; they both favourite to review and write,” Maqsood added.
Speaking about a owner of a Sakinan-e-Shehr-e-Quaid, Azhar Abbas Hashmi, his tighten friend, Safwanullah, reminisced about their five-decade-long bond. “It is formidable to speak about him as it still feels like he will come back,” pronounced Safwanullah, adding that their loyalty began in university.
Hashmi actively worked for a fortitude of amicable issues and contributed to Urdu novel besides being behind a Aalmi Mushaira, that has been reason for a final 3 decades. His crony termed his genocide a ‘loss for a literary fraternity’.
Remembering a efforts of Jamiluddin Aali in fulfilling a will of Baba-e-Urdu in substantiating Urdu University, censor Saher Ansari spoke of his impression as a poet, columnist and a male behind moulding a Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdu what it is today.
He was a male of difference and he never felt ashamed of what he was, he always common his possess stories and done people around him giggle though during a same time he was a really critical male and felt a grief of people tighten to him, Ansari explained.
“He is not gone, he is still with me,” pronounced Asif Farrukhi about his late father, author and censor Aslam Farrukhi. He was lustful of communication and he even shouted verses while seeking for food during a table, pronounced Asif. “He was [a] overworked [person]; he always worked for what he achieved in life,” he recalled.
Most people do not remember their initial meetings though Akhter Waqar Azhar clearly remembers how he met his coach in PTV, Aslam Azhar.
“He taught me all with his siren in a mouth and reading newspapers in his room,” he said, adding that he never compromised on his ethics and values though motionless to leave his initial love, that was PTV.
Agha Saleem and Mustafa Zaidi were also remembered during a session.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 5th, 2016.
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