Syed Nomanul Haq

2 months ago | dawn.com | Syed Nomanul Haq |Zohaib Majeed |Muhammad Amir Rana |Abbas Nasir

At a first glance, one feels jitters going through the spine to note the title Ghalib gave to his 1857-1858 diary of that fateful Indian insurrection, forever carved in South Asian Muslim consciousness as ghadr [rebellion/treachery]. He called it Dastanbu — a word of archaic Persian meaning “a fragrant bouquet.”Why would Ghalib present a bouquet to his readers while his homeland was in the throes of unspeakable bloodbath, witnessing exiles and dispossessions and public executions?

Aug 18, 2024 | dawn.com | Syed Nomanul Haq |Abbas Nasir |Muhammad Amir Rana |Muna Khan

In the early years of post-Iqbal history of Urdu poetry, one finds two distinct streams flowing alongside each other — the two streams eventually mingling and generating powerful cross-currents. One stream is that whose sources lie in poets such as Azmatullah Khan, Miraji, Noon Meem Rashed, and Faiz Ahmed Faiz. These pioneering modernist figures fundamentally transformed or even, in some cases, shunned that resilient genre of lyrical poetry called ghazal.

Jun 3, 2024 | thepmfajournal.com | Syed Nomanul Haq

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Apr 13, 2024 | dawn.com | Syed Nomanul Haq |Muzhira Amin |Muhammad Amir Rana |Abbas Nasir

“Truth is, without an unconditional acknowledgement of the poetic virtues of Akhtar Shirani, an honest history of Urdu literature cannot possibly be written. After his death, our critics have ignored this unparalleled poet to the degree of cosmic transgression.

Feb 10, 2024 | dawn.com | Syed Nomanul Haq |Mubarak Zeb Khan |Asad KHan |Asad Khan |Abbas Nasir

It is often forgotten that, in a social setting, we generally live under the tall shadows of constructed realities. But to say this at the present juncture of our philosophical journey is to utter what has become practically a cliché. Ghalib had pronounced that every individual in the world is an unread leaf [hae har ek shakhs jahaañ meiñ waraq-i-nakhvaanda]; in other words, I can never really know you, nor can you ever know my real inner being.