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Priya Satia: Why poetry remains a primary resource in remembering and understanding the Partition
The first instalment of an essay originally published in 2016. Yesterday · 12:30 pm Displacement is central to Punjabi identity as it is to Jewish and Armenian identity. | Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
What is the poet’s role in history? For a historian of Britain like myself, this question calls to mind the work of EP Thompson, who read the history of the English working class with one eye on the Romantic poets who sensitively captured the social and cultural transformations of the revolutionary late 18th century.
Their notions of place, people and conflict were also shaped by the imperial expansion unfolding in precisely the same moment, and they waxed orientalists even in their defences of freedom. Thompson’s favourite among the Romantics was the prophetic William Blake, partly for his consistent anti-imperialism. He disapproved of William Wor
IndiaRanjhaPunjabPakistanUnited-provincesUttar-pradeshUnited-statesUnited-kingdomNew-delhiDelhiCaliforniaFerozepurA 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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June 28, 2021
As the Sindh government lifted the ban on cultural activities and gatherings, the Arts Council has duly started to hold condolence references for art luminaries who passed away in recent months.
After a condolence reference for singer SB John on Friday, the Arts Council held an event on Saturday evening to pay tribute to acclaimed poet Naseer Turabi who passed away on January 10 this year.
The event was held at the Arts Council library that is named after Josh Malihabadi, one of the poets revered by Turabi. It was moderated by Shakeel Khan. Senior literary personalities participated in the event virtually and physically and spoke about Turabi s personality and accomplishments, moderated by Shakeel Khan.
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