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Remembering the last Bohemian and beat poet of Lahore
If I were to tell Zahid Dar I didn’t want to write his obituary, he would understand. He understood the value of not writing if one didn’t want to. Or not speaking every time one was asked to; or becoming aloof while sitting in a crowd; or not existing to work or working to exist as everyone else did.
But he is dead and here we are. Left with memories of a life that must be recalled, celebrated, what else. Intizar Husain took no chances: Dar could outlive him and not give him the opportunity to write a befitting tribute, so he wrote a sketch,
“MUQABILA, aur woh bhi shaan-o-shaukat ka”(competition that too of ostentation). “Zehniyat is tarah nahin badalti jab tak mahaul nahin badalta”(the mindset does not change until the environment changes). “Tumharay paas bangla nahin, nokar nahin, par tum zaat kay kitnay achchay ho. Sharif ho”(You do not have a house, or a servant. Yet how decent you are by temperament. How good you are.)
These are snatches of conversation from Hajra Masroor’s short story Standard. Through its protagonist, Begum Riaz, the author astutely comments on Pakistan’s society and its culture of ostentation. The story was written more than 60 years ago but remains relevant.
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