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Ali Sethi: more than meets the eye
Sethi is reconciling Pakistan with its checkered past and contextualising its mysterious future
During my recent trip to Pakistan, a good friend of mine introduced to me a song that has since become our go-to jam - I’m talking about the Coke Studio rendition of
by Ali Sethi and Quratulain Balouch. While Quratulain’s forceful voice captivated my senses, it was Ali Sethi’s crooning that had me floored. Since then
, Mundiya became my gateway drug into Ali Sethi, a name I had heard in passing for the last couple of years, (I remember seeing his concert posters on the Harvard campus when I lived in Boston) and I was introduced to the rich tapestry of his songs including
BostonMassachusettsUnited-statesIndiaLahorePunjabPakistanMundiyaRajasthanLondonCity-ofUnited-kingdomFarewell 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.
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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.
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