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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 ....
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. ....