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A biography of the Urdu poet and writer also signposts the literary culture of the age
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I had expected the new ‘critical biography’,
Ghalib: A Wilderness at my Doorstep (Allen Lane) to be a biography for the ordinary Ghalib fan. I should have known better. Its author, Mehr Afshan Farooqi, is the daughter of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, whose demise last year deprived India of one of its most brilliant writer-scholars. Not surprisingly, while
Ghalib contains much of interest to the serious Ghalib fan (a description that does not include all those who attribute every amorous couplet to ‘Chacha Ghalib’), it is, above all, an original work of serious scholarship.
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Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: The Ustad Who Could Catch the Bustle in A Flowerâs Scent
The acclaimed Urdu critic, poet and prose master changed the face of Urdu but also what it meant to engage with the literary in all its shapes, glorious or unsightly. Life after him means living with a slew of unfinished conversations, writes Geeta Patel.Â
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (September 30, 1935 â December 25, 2020) Photo: Aashima
The language of flowers (in homage to Ghalib and Faruqi)
You happen upon them
Lotus midnight hands over your soul
Petalled rose harkens loveâs slow fall
Tulip stillness as the heartâs quarry