Farewell Naseer Turabi: The Unsung Poet Whose Lone Ghazal Struck Gold
Turabi may forever be known as the poet who never got his due in his lifetime, yet his most popular ghazal will ensure that he is in focus.
Naseer Turabi. Photo: YouTube video screengrab
Kuchh roz Naseer aao chalo ghar mein raha jaaye
Logon ko ye shikva hai ke ghar par nahin milta
(Come, in our house for a few days Naseer, let us now remain
For he is not found at home, the people complain)
One had still not fully come to terms with the death of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi last Christmas, when news came on January 10, that Naseer Turabi too had left us, felled by a heart attack at 75. He was buried in Karachi on the following day.
Quratulain Balouch honours Wo Humsafar Tha poet Naseer Turabi on account of his death
The poet, author and intellectual passed away on Sunday
Renowned poet, author and intellectual, Naseer Turabi, passed away in Karachi on Sunday after succumbing to ill health.
Turabi was 75-years-old and laid to rest at Wadi-a-Hussain graveyard on Monday after funeral prayers at Zuhr at Imambargah Shuhada-e-Karbala in Federal B Area Ancholi.
His popular ghazal,
Wo Humsafar Tha, which he wrote after the split of East and West Pakistan in 1971, was later used as the soundtrack for Pakistani television serial,
Humsafar. It was crooned by renowned singer Quratulain Balouch, popularly known as QB, for the same. Turabi considered the Dhaka Fall a great historic tragedy and that was expressed in this popular ghazal of his.
Renowned poet Naseer Turabi passes away
Late writer penned down popular ghazal, Wo Humsafar Tha after creation of Bangladesh
KARACHI:
Renowned poet, author and intellectual, Naseer Turabi, passed away in Karachi on Sunday after succumbing to ill health.
Turabi was 75-years-old and will be laid to rest at Wadi-a-Hussain graveyard today (Monday) after funeral prayers at Zuhr at Imambargah Shuhada-e-Karbala in Federal B Area Ancholi.
The late poet was the son of famed Urdu poet, linguist, lexicographer and famous religious speaker Allama Rashid Turabi.
Turabi was born on June 15, 1945, in Hyderabad Deccan, pre-partition India. He and his family migrated to Pakistan after independence. He started his journey as a poet in 1962 and did his Masters in Public Relations from the University of Karachi in 1968.