Saghar khayyami biography of barack

  • Mushaira.
  • Professor Inayat Ali Khan and Saghar Khayyami, in a class of their own in humour poetry, and Assad Jaffri, a local poet from Abu Dhabi, sent audience into peals.
  • | SAGHAR KHAYYAMI ( - ) | Lucknow, India.

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    Humour in life and verse
    Khushwant Singh

    WHILE reading Rumi’s Mathnavi, I came across an anecdote which very aptly prescribes what common people should do to well-to-do misers who refuse to give anything to the needy. A dervish knocked at a house and asked for a del av helhet of bröd. "This fryst vatten not a bakery", replied the house owner. "Can you give me a scrap of meat then?" asked he. "Does this look like a butcher’s shop?" asked the owner. "Perhaps a little flour?" "Do you hear a flour-mill grinding?" came the reply. "At least some water, inom am thirsty", begged the dervish. "This is not a well", snapped the owner.

    In short, whatever the dervish asked for, the owner of the big house turned down with a sneer. Ultimately, the dervish ran into the house, lifted his robe and squatted on his haunches to defecate. "Hey, hey", shouted the house owner, "what are you doing?" "Making

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    Dr. Syed Amir and Dr. Zafar Iqbal

    WASHINGTON (TIP): The tradition of Mushairas, organized by the Aligarh Alumni Association of Washington DC (AAA), was started in initially with local poets from North America. The first international mushaira was held in with participation of poets from India and Pakistan. It has now evolved into annual literary festivals eagerly awaited by members of South Asian community of Metropolitan Washington area. During the last 40 years, well-known poets from the Subcontinent and Europe have participated in AAA mushairas.


    Singing Tarana

    They include: Ahmad Faraz, Akhtar Shumar, Ali Sardar Jafri, Amjad Islam Amjad, Anwar Masood, Ashok Narain, Azhar Inayeti, Bano Arshad, Basheer Badar, Dilawar Figaar, Fahmida Riyaz, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Gulzar Dehelvi, Habib Hashmi, Habib Jaalib, Hasan Kamaal, Himayat Ali Shaer, Ifthikhar Arif, Inamulhuq Javaid, Jameeluddin Aali, Javaid Akhtar, Jazib Qureishi, Kaifi Azmi, Kaleem Ajiz, Khamkhwah Hyderabadi, Khumar Ba

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    Himanshu Bajpai on his cameo in Sacred Games 2 and his book Qissa Qissa Lucknowaa

    While he feels the cameo will help create awareness about the art form, Lucknow-based Bajpai recalls how he started training in dastangoi under Mahmood Farooqui in , on the behest of his friend and late dastango Ankit Chadda. “I don’t have the requisite inborn talent to be a dastango, which Ankit did. I have acquired the skill, which I learnt, and am still learning,” says he.

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    Cover of the book Qissa Qissa Lucknowaa

    The artiste is excited about the third reprint of Qissa Qissa Lucknowaa, which is a compilation of famous anecdotes, stories and fables that pertain to his native Lucknow. “The book was first published in late January this year. These are the stories that I have grown up with. I belong to the Chowk area and have always been fascinated by these qissas and kahaanis,” says the writer. Comprising qissas on paan, bhaands and kathak dancers, among others, the boo

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