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.
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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
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