Not many Urdu poets among the mico-minuscule Zoroastrians (Parsis) are known. But Dr Navroze Kotwal, a Parsi Orthodontist not only learned Urdu out of passion but has also turned into a rhymster
of repute. He has recently penned a ghazal on Mumbai blasts.
nikle the kal jo sub'h ko karte hue salaam
lauTe na ghar ko aa hii gayii zindagii ki shaam
panhunchaa ke zik kissi ko bhi jo kiyaa jo zer-e-daam
mansab huaa buland, yeh kaisa khayaal-e-Khaam
The Afternoon Dispatch and Courier has printed the story and his photograph
(Dr Kotwal reads Hamaari Zubaan paper of Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu). Unfortunately the name of the correspondent who has done this story is not mentioned. He deserves to be congratulated.
Photo and story courtesy: www.cybernoon. com
Palestine and Beirut
Faiz Ahmad Faiz' verse Beirut nigaar-e-bazm-e-jahaan can be read on Mohib's blog
Private Opinion at http://mohib.net/blog/2006/07/a-poem-for-beirut/
He has done a beautiful translation also 'Beirut, adornment of this assembled world...'
The other poem Ausaf Ahmad' diloN ka filistiin with a translation is available on
www.urduindia.wordpress.com
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Zoroastrian poet's Urdu ghazal on Mumbai blasts & verses on Beirut/Palestine
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I read your blogs regularly (not in exact sense, yeah but quite regular)....and was thinking you as a very sensible person....earlier I was happy atleast there are some neutral muslim exist in the world who think something not only on a trendy line.....but, while reading this post I was in tears really!!!
Means how can you praise a person (whatever the religion or belief he follows)...who only had wrote a piece of URDU couplets to those who killed in the most tremnedous and heinous blast in India...and you were also expressing your grief of not finding the journalist name..without a single word for **those doomed victims**
how can you do that...I am not going to take your argument that you were only praising it as a great URDU literature....no literature can be great which take birth due to a heinous crime.....
Sorry to criticize you.... but i thought this is my responsibility.....
That I did on my blog www.indianmuslims.in as an Indian Muslims. Shiraz, Here it was just a report reproduced from a paper to simply chronicle it.
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