A reader browses through the volumes kept at the library. White Star
KARACHI: If you’re a literature buff and you’re asked whether you’d like to hear recordings of Philip Larkin, T.S. Eliot, David Jones and Robert Graves reading their own poems, chances are you’d go crazy with excitement. Or, for that matter, you’re a fan of art-house cinema and were offered to take a peek into the creative process of the great Ingmar Bergman, you’d leap at the opportunity in two shakes of a lamb’s tail.
These audio tapes and a large quantity of books, 8,500 to be precise, are now part of the yet-to-be-inaugurated Josh Malihabadi Library and Archives at the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi.
THE sitting to pay tribute to Shamsur Rahman Farooqi under way at Arts Council Karachi. White Star
KARACHI: The Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, on Saturday evening held an event to pay tribute to the renowned Indian critic, fiction writer and linguist Shamsur Rahman Farooqi who passed away last year on Dec 25.
Prof Sahar Ansari, one of the three speakers present in the council’s Josh Malihabadi Library, said Farooqi sahib was an institution who was an expert in undertaking a variety of [literary] works in a masterful way. Although he had achievements in various genres of literature, even if he had focused on one of them, he still would have been a big name in the field. Giving this argument, Prof Ansari touched upon the late scholar’s great critical accomplishment Sher-i-Shor Angez. He argued it was important on two counts. One, it provided the reader with the understanding of the great poet Mir Taqi Mir’s poetry on the level of meaning (as is done at educational instituti
The reference under way on Tuesday evening.
KARACHI: The Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi on Tuesday evening held in its Josh Malihabadi Library an event to pay tribute to the renowned Indian literary critic, playwright and poet Prof Shamim Hanfi who passed away on May 6 this year.
Indian poet Ranjit Singh Chohan, who joined proceedings online, was the first speaker. He said Hanfi sahib’s death was his personal loss. He was the life of literary events. Chohan regretted the fact that in the second wave of the pandemic when the late scholar couldn’t make it to the Jashn-i-Adab [in India] he didn’t like it and stopped taking his calls for some time. Afterwards he himself and Hanfi sahib contracted coronavirus. The latter reached a stage where he needed the support of a ventilator.
KARACHI: Eminent individuals from the world of literature and art gathered at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi’s Josh Malihabadi Library on Tuesday evening to pay tribute to the legendary writer Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi on his third death anniversary.
Poet Iftikhar Arif, who spoke online from Islamabad, said Yusufi sahib was a man of many shades. He was one of those rare individuals who wrote about his creative process which can be detected from his writings because eventually that’s what’s going to remain [of writers]. He was an extremely learned man who had read Western literature and philosophy in depth.