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Ali Hashmi

1. Manto's world

A great deal has been said and written about Manto, little in his favor and much of it against him... I have had the privilege of knowing Manto. The truth is that I am his doppelganger... Some people s...

2. The Desert of Possibility: The Poetry of Mirza Asadullah Khan 'Ghalib' (Part II)

Ghalib once remarked that he had done quite enough through his poetry and prose to ensure that his name would live on until the end of time. More than 200 years after his birth, the steady stream of wo...

3. The Desert of Possibility: The Poetry of Mirza Asadullah Khan 'Ghalib' (Part I)

'Hai kahan tamanna kaa doosra qadam, Yaarab Hum nay dasht-e-imkaan ko aik naqsh-e-paa paayaa’ "Where is the second footstep of longing, oh Lord? The desert of possibility was but one footstep" Diva...

4. Free expression ‘will only exist in a classless society’: An Interview with Faiz-VI

Ijaz Batalwi: Actually I had in my mind the constraints on the right of expression, which has emerged in society in the last forty years. If a writer is deprived of this right then it is not about the ...

5. ‘We have never defined the concept of a Pakistani nation’: An Interview with Faiz-V

Faiz: Regarding religion, I have mentioned that I attended Molvi Ibraheem Mir’s Quranic dars for years. In college my subject was Arabic and there used to be an exam on Quran and Hadith in MA. Then, i...

6. “Politics, ideology and poetry”:An Interview with Faiz-IV

Qayyum Nazar: Let us return to your poems. After 1936, as you said, you had a change in your way of thinking under the influence of socialist ideology. Some of your critics hold that there are two dis...

7. A glance at Faiz’ life and poetry on Faiz’ centennial

Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistan’s unofficial poet laureate, was born almost exactly a hundred years ago, on 13 February 1911, in Sialkot, the hometown he shared with Pakistan’s national poet, ‘Allama’ ...

8. Messiah of Crystals: on translating Faiz

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), considered by many to be the most important writer in the German language, said: “Say what you will of its inadequacy, translation remains one of the most import...

9. Poetic visions of Faiz and Iqbal

It is often thought that there is nothing common between the poetry and art of ‘Allama’ Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), ‘poet of the East’ and Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984), Pakistan’s poet laureate....

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