âCorona Is Advancing, Humanity Is Dying, the Year Has Passed!â: Kishwar Naheed Sums up 2020
Kishwar Naheed s latest collection of Urdu poetry masterfully contrasts the ravages of COVID-19 around the world, and the eternal contest between hope and despair.
Kishwar Naheed.
Books01/Jan/2021
Kishwar Naheed, who turned 80 last June, is one of the greatest Urdu poets of the 20th century. She symbolises feminism itself for the valiant women of South Asia in general, and Pakistan in particular. Despite turning 80, and being diagnosed with COVID-19 soon after reaching the landmark, she continues to dazzle with one poetic collection after another. Therefore, it was a privilege to read her latest collection of poetry, titled
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December 13, 2020
Tahira Naqvi’s translation of Fahmida Riaz’s poems is flawless, leaving one wanting to delve into the original text
“Coming on the descending side of my life, this collection of poetry may well be my last. That is why I have also included here the poems that are very old but remained unpublished for some reason or lacked only a line or two. But it’s still the same kind of poetry I have always written, that is, an amalgamation of personal and vicarious experiences that kept inter-changing and re-appearing with time in the form of new characters…” quoted from the preface of Fahmida Riaz’s last collection of poetry,