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Ab ke hum bichrahy to shayad… #RIPMehdiHassan

June 13th, 2012

Breaking news on both side of the border. ‪#RIPMehdiHassan‬ (Picture Courtesy: Maria Memon)

In this world, a small number of people do not need any introduction their work become their identity. These are chosen few who excel in their field and when the leave the leave with a huge gap behind that can never be filled. Mehdi Hassan the “Maestro of Ghazal” or “King of Ghazal” is one of them. His astonishing contributions in the field of eastern music have been an identity for him as well as Pakistan. Since he started his career, when he was given an opportunity to sing on Radio Pakistan in 1957 primarily as a thumri singer, he proved to be an exception and remain icon throughout his life.

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Tags: Ghazal King Lollywood Maestro Mehdi Hassan Music Pakistan Pakistani Radio Pakistan RIP Singer sub continent Urdu

Elaj e Zid Dastyab Hay – Urdu Version of The Taming of The Shrew

May 26th, 2012

While I was coming to UK for my studies, I made a list of the things that I will be doing in UK while studding here. In last 18 months, I have managed to achieve quite a lot of those tasks but due to “human negligence”, some of them are still to be done. Going to theatre and watching a Shakespeare’s play was in that list too. This past Friday I went to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre where an Olympic festival under the name of World Shakespeare Festival 2012 is going on. The project name is globe to globe where 37 of Shakespeare’s plays are being staged in 37 languages from across the globe.

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Tags: Elaj e Zid Globe Theatre humour karachi Lahore Mianwali Olympics 2012 Pakistan Pakistani Taming of the Shrew UK Urdu World Shakespeare Festival

To, A Few Elders

May 23rd, 2012

Life is indeed unpredictable and plans can never remain constant, I come across to this reality every now and then. The latest encounter I had with this factor is right now when I am writing this as this has never been in my plans or in my thoughts that I will ever write about this, but sometimes the incidences you come across force you to react to the things that you never bothered to think about. Yesterday when I was roaming in the city and trying to enjoy my evening a few Punjabi words hit my listening sense the simplest translation of those words are, “do you have any manners, how to talk to the elders?”.

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Posted in Islam, Opinion

Tags: Bukhari Elders Hadith Islam Life Pakistan Public Punjabi Quran Scolding UK Urdu Younger

Departure of Nostalgic Story Teller

October 31st, 2011

Hameed Akhter - The Nostalgic Story Teller

Due to health, problems that I faced in my childhood I was not allowed to play, as I always wanted to so that I do not have breathing issues. Therefore, I adopted two things than and still these two are with me. One is reading and other is writing. As I had nothing to do in my leisure time, that is why I used to read a lot and this factor made me a newspaper reader at a very early stage of my life, and I became familiar with many names. The name of late Hameed Akhter is one of them. Until last year Hameed sb has been part of my daily reading list but ever since I moved to UK and got busy with my studies my reading list changed from newspapers and articles to books and journals on marketing. That is the reason I got the sad news of Hameed sb’s death after 5 days of its happening.

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Tags: blog Columnist Hameed Akhter India Journalist Ludhiana Pakistani Print Media Revolution UK Urdu

Chelsea of Lahore

August 23rd, 2011

Picture Courtesy ApnaOrg.com

First Published “Lahore Nama“

There was a time when caravans of fragrances used to pass by the streets of Lahore, but today it is a fuss created by direction less crowd. The remaining old cultural identities are dependent on the very few literary and cultural events. Bhaati Gate of old Lahore has always been famous as the centre of literature, knowledge, and art. One can easily experience the glimpse of the real cultural flavour of Lahore and old heritage right after crossing the gate. The twisting narrow streets, weaker structures, and doors with classic designs are the storytellers of the great past. Because of the literary activities of Bhaati gate Hakeem Ahmed Shuja declared it as “Chelsea of Lahore”.

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Tags: Allama Iqbal Baba Bulleh Shah Bang e Dara Barood Khana Bazaar Bhaati Bhaati Gate Bhatnair British Cat Chelsea Chelsea of Lahore Circular Road Data Ali Hajveri Faqir Khana Ghaseto Halwai Ghulam Rasool Gobindgarh Gothic Government College Hakeem Ahmed Shuja Hakeeman hamala Jalottian Mohala Judge Karbala Gamy Shah Karpal Rao Koocha Lahore Lahore Nama Lollywood Masjid Master molana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zafar_Ali_Khan Mori Gate Museum Muslim legue Oonchi Ranjeet Singh Saghar Sidiqui Shah Inayat Qadri Sikh South East Asia Tareekh e Lahore Taxali Gate Tibbi Uchi Urdu

Parvin Shakir – Documentary

August 20th, 2011

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Posted in Poetry, Videos

Tags: documentary Pakistan Parvin Shakir Poet POETRY Urdu

How Technology can change life of Madrasah Students

August 4th, 2011

I have been of the opinion that Madrasahs (seminaries) can be the best NGOs and more than a year old post of mine shows my opinion over this part of our society (here). Being a Madarasah student in the past I know that there is a cushion for something productive to be used in the leasure time that students at seminaries have. Learning Quran is indeed one great thing but learning Quran along with gaining the know how of the latest updates that are taking place in the world can be helpful to the Madrasah students. Thanks to facebook I came accross to the following video that is showing that Technology can change life of a Madrasah Student.

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Tags: Alim facebook Google gtalk Internet Iqbal linkedin Madrasah Quran Rehan Allahwala Seminaries Super Technologies Technology Urdu youtube

Stay Divided and See The Fall

July 21st, 2011

Picture Courtesy Dawn

Question is simple, “why you people hate MQM?” this question was asked by my Faisalabadi friend from my other friend who is Sindhi. By that time, I realised that politics is going to be the dessert of the dinner that I was trying to finish. The statement of Senior Minister of Sindh Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza has given a discussion topic to many people. And we four friends were enjoying this hot cake at that time.

My friend who is from interior Sindh and spent some years in Karachi unfolded charge sheet against MQM and Urdu speaking community, the final allegation was “they don’t like Sindhi people”. “Keep it simple mate, if you hate them then they have all the rights to dislike you”, I tried to add my notes into the discussion.