Jameelud Din Ali:
Nawabzada Mirza Jamiluddin Ahmed Khan better known as Jamiluddin Aali was born January 20, 1926 in Delhi is a noted Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar of Pakistan. He is best known for the famous national song, Jeeway Jeeway Pakistan.
Aali hails from a literary family of Delhi. His grandfather, Nawab Allauddin Ahmed Khan, was a friend and student of Ghalib. His father Sir Ameeruddin Ahmed Khan was also a poet, and his mother Syeda Jamila Baigum belonged to a family of Mir Dard. Aali earned a BA in Economics from Anglo Arabic College, Delhi. In September 30, 1944, Jamil married Tayaba Bano. They have five children (three sons and two daughters). His son, Raju Jamil, is a Television actor. In 1947, after the partition of India, his family migrated to Pakistan and settled in Karachi. He joined the Civil Services of Pakistan in 1951. In 1971 he obtained an FEL and LLB from Karachi University. In 1966, he joined the National Bank, and served there till his retirement (1988) as senior executive vice president and member executive board.
Though little is known of Aali's paternal descendents, maternal side of the family is currently living in Karachi, Pakistan. Reportedly, the family does not approve of Jamiluddin Aali's activities as a poet and academic scholar. Aali's greatest achievement, "Dukh -e- Aali" earned the often misleading title of "Family History". Being a patriotic himself, Jamiluddin Aali denies any relation or affiliation with members of the family who are living abroad. Family members, on the other hand, call it "Behissi" ("Senseless & Ignorant" in the local dialect) of the famous poet.
Political life
Aali was former member of the Pakistan Peoples Party and also contested the general elections in March 7, 1977 from NA-191, but lost. In 1997, he was elected as member of the Senate for a six year term with support of Muttahida Qaumi Movement
Literary work:
Ballade's collection
- Aye Mere Dasht-e-Sukhan
- Mother India (Co Writer with S. Ali Raza)
- Ghazlain Dohay Geet (Six editions)
- Jeeway Jeeway Pakistan (Five editions)
- La Hasil (Three editions)
- Nai Kiran
Couplet's collection
- Dohay (Three editions in Urdu and one in Devnagari)
- Travel literature
- Duniya Mere Aagye
- Tamasha Mere Aagye
- Jinsi Mere Aagye
- Iceland
- Muhib-e-Aali
- Dukh-e-Aali
- Hurfay (Four books)
Patriotic songs:
- Aye Watan Ke Sajelay Jawanoo
- Jeway Jeway Pakistan
- Hum Mustafavi Mustafavi Hain
- Mein Chota Sa Ek Ladka Hoon Mera Paigham Pakistan
- Ab Yeh Andaz-e-Anjuman Hoga
- Hum Maain, Hum Behnain, Hum Baitiyan
- Jo Naam Wahi Pehchan, Pakistan Pakistan
- Aye Des Ki Hawaon, Kushboo Mein Bas Ke Jao
- Itne Bade Jewan Sagar Mein, Tu Ne Pakistan Diya
- Yeh Kavita Pakistani Hai
Dr. Waheed Ahmad
Waheed Ahmed's Urdu novel "Zeno" has been translated into Swedish by the title "Zino" by a Swedish translator Nina Costelo and is available in many libraries of Sweden and Scandinavian countries.It is expected that it will also be translated into other languages including English.A united forum of libraries in Stockholm rated it the best novel of 2004.Its translation in Sindhi language is also in process.Indian literary magazine "Sha'ir" also rated it the best Urdu novel of 2004. Zeno has been written in five years. The author started it writing in 1998 and finished it in 2003 when its first edition was published from Faisalabad (Pakistan).Its second edition was published in 2004 from Islamabad. The third edition was again published from Faisalabad. The novel is written in a poetic diction. Zeno, the imaginary hero of the novel, is a contemporary of Aristotle and Alexander and has his own intellectual view of life.He accompanies Alexander throughout his adventures. While traveling through the northern areas of Pakistan, a storm buried him under the snow. Zeno reappears at the dawn of the 21st century. He visits many countries and talks to many characters including members of G8. Some readers tend to compare Zeno, the imaginary hero of the novel, with Zeno of Elea or Zeno of Citium. This is not a right comparison.It is just a coincidence that the writer has named his hero as Zeno. There was no important character by the name of Zeno at the time of Aristotle, who accompanied Alexander from Greece to India.
Fahmida Riaz
Fehmida Riaz was born on July 28, 1946 in a literary family of Meerut, UP, India. Her father, Riaz-ud-Din Ahmed, was an educationist, who had a great influence in mapping and establishing modern education system for Sindh. Her family settled in Hyderabad following her father's transfer to Sindh. Fahmida learnt Sindhi language and literature in childhood and later Persian.
Fahmida Riaz is a well known Urdu writer, poet, and feminist of Pakistan. She is author of Godaavari, Khatt-e Marmuz' and 'Khana e Aab O Gil - the first translation of the Masnavi of Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi into Urdu.
Fehmida remained part of social and political activities since her academic life. She got involved in students politics when she was student of M.A. in Sindh University. She spoke and wrote against the University Ordinance and the ban on the students' union during the Ayub Khan regime. After marriage in 1967, she had to leave for England with her husband. She worked for the BBC Radio Urdu service while in England. She spent many years in India also in the 1980s, living in Delhi and working at Jamia Millia Islamia. She enjoyed the patronage of Indian Government. Her husband, an activist of Sindhi nationalism had also accompanied her to India. They returned to Pakistan though, quite disillusioned.
Fahmida first saw the daylight of in a literary family. Her first poem was published in Funoon of Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, when she was merely 15. Her first collection of poetry appeared just after two months of marriage at the age of 22. Late she could not carry literary work due to his social and political involvement.
- Pathar ki Zaban
- Khatt-e Marmuz
- Khana e Aab O Gil first translation of the Masnavi e Manvi into Urdu
Izhar-ul-Haq
• Deevar e Aab (winner of Adamjee Award for Literature)
• Ghadar
• Parizad
• Pani Peh Bichha Takht (winner of Allama Iqbal Award 2004)
Izhar is best known for his ghazal, although his nazm and nasri nazm are also very popular among the literary circles of sub-continent.
Izhar also writes columns in the leading Urdu newspapers of Pakistan. He has been a regular columnist in Daily Pakistan, Jang, Daily Jinnah and presently in Nawaiwaqt, and The Nation. Izhar has been a civil servant by profession, and has retired from the government of Pakistan.
Amjad Islam Amjad
Amjad Islam Amjad, (born August 4, 1944 in Sialkot) is a famous Urdu poet, drama writer and lyricist from Pakistan.
He received his education in Lahore. He graduated from Islamia College Civil Lines, Lahore. His career started as a lecturer in M.A.O College Lahore. From 1975 to 1979 he worked as a director at Pakistan Television Corporation before returning to the College.
In 1989 he was appointed as Director General of Urdu Science Board. Currently he is the project director of the Children Library Complex. He is the author of over 40 books and received several national and PTV awards.
Amjad Islam Amjad is the writer of many drama series for Pakistan Television Corporation including the very popular "Waaris". He has written many columns, translation, criticism and essays whereas his main focus is writing Nazms. Among his most famous dramas are Waris, Dehleez, Samandar, Raat, Waqt and Apnay Loug.
In June, 2008 he joined Urdu newspaper Daily Express.
Poetry
• Fishar
• Barzakh
• Us par
• Satwan dar
• Zara phir say kehna
• Seher aasar
• Barish ke aawaz
• Itnay khwab kahan rakhoon
• Mairay bhe hain kuch khwab
Autograph of Amjad - Whatever is - is the spread of love
Fatima Bhutto
Fatima was born on 29 May 1982in
Bhutto completed her BA degree in Middle Eastern studies from Barnard College of Columbia University, after receiving her secondary education at the
Following the assassination of her aunt, Benazir Bhutto, her entrance into politics has been speculated. She has stated that for now she prefers to remain active through her writing, rather than through elected office. However, she actively supports her mother's chairmanship to the unpopular wing of the Pakistan People's Party (Shaheed Bhutto Group), which failed to win a single seat in the 2008 elections.
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Patras Bukhari
Patras Bokhari left Government College Lahore in 1925 to study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University to complete a Tripos in English. Many years later, the Bokhari English Prize was established there in his honour.
In 1927 he came back to Government College Lahore and as a Professor remained there till 1939. Before the formation of Pakistan in 1947, he was the Director General, All India Radio. Being a Professor of English Literature he also served as the Principal of Government College Lahore from 1947 to 1950. The famous Urdu poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and the leading free verse poet in Urdu, Noon Meem Rashid, were among his famous students. After the formation of Pakistan, he served as the first permanent representative of Pakistan in the United Nations from 1951–1954. His thin volume of essays, Patras Kay Mazameen (Essays of Patras), published in 1927 is considered as an asset of Urdu humor.He accompanied Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan on his first visit to the United States as the Prime Minister's speech writer.In 1945 Patras Bokhari was awarded the Companion of the Indian Empire (CIE) Award.Bokhari Auditorium on Government College University is named after him .The Government of Tunisia, named a Road after him in Tunis, as a recognition for his contribution towards the freedom of Tunisia from French Colonial Rule in 1956.There is also a road named after him in Islamabad, Federal Capital of Pakistan.Editorial appears in the New York Times on 6 December 1958, a day after his demise, in which he was described as a Citizen of the World.From 1954-1958 he remained as the Under Secretary of the UN, Head of Information. He died during his diplomatic service and is buried in New York, USA. In October 1998, to mark his birth centenary, the Government of Pakistan issued a postage stamp with his photograph under the series, Pioneers of Pakistan.
On 14 August 2003 President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf announced the conferment of Hilal-e-Imtiaz, posthumously to Patras Bokhari, the country's second highest Civilian Award.
Syed Salman Nadvi
Syed Salman Nadvi was born on November 22, 1884 in Desna village of Patna, British India. His father, Hakeem Sayyed Abdul Hasan was a pious Sufi.
His first teachers were Khalifa Anwar Ali of Desna and Maulvi Maqsood Ali of Ookhdi. Later he received his education from his elder brother, Hakeem Sayyed Abu Habeeb and his father, who was a physician at Islampur near Patna. In 1899 he went to Phulwari Sharif (Bihar) where at the famous Khanqah-e-Mojeebia he became a disciple of Maulana Mohiuddin and of Shah Sulaiman Phulwari. From there he went to Darbhanga where he studied for a few months at Madrasa-e-Imdadia.
In 1901, he was admitted into Dar-ul-Uloom Nadva at Lucknow. He studied for seven years at Nadva. Young Sulaiman's first article, Waqt (Time) was published in the monthly Urdu Journal Makhzan edited by Sir Sheikh Abdul Qadir. In 1905, Maulana Shibli came to Lucknow as Secretary of Nadva. Sulaiman came under the influence of Shibli whose literary heir he was destined to be. There was another student at Nadva at this time who came from Calcutta. He was none but Abul Kalam Azad. Both Sulaiman and Azad were favourite pupils of Maulana Shibli Nomani. Soon Sulaiman was chosen to carry on Maulana Shibli's work. In 1906, he graduated from the Nadva. Shibli appointed Sayyed Sulaiman sub-editor of journal, An-Nadwa. In 1908, Sulaiman Nadvi was appointed an instructor of Modern Arabic and Dogmatic Theology at Dar-ul-Uloom Nadva.
In 1910, Shibli Nomani had begun the monumental task of writing Sirat-un-Nabi (biography of Muhammad in Urdu). Sulaiman Nadvi became Shibli's literary assistant in the writing of Sirat. But Maulana Shibli Nomani could not complete the Sirat in his life. After death of his mentor on November 18, 1914, Sulaiman Nadvi left the job of Professor in Deccan College, Pune and came over to Azamgarh. Sulaiman edited and published the two volumes of Sirat-un-Nabi penned by Shibli and himself wrote and published third, forth, fifth and sixth volume of this Magnum Opus. The work started through the munificence of late Nawab Sulatan Jehan Begum of Bhopal and later through the aid of Nizam of Hyderabad. It is the grandest biography of Muhammed ever attempted in any language of the world.
In October-November 1925, Sulaiman Nadvi delivered a series of eight lectures on the life of Muhammad at Madras. These lectures which are a masterpiece of erudition later published as Khutbat-e-Madras.
In 1933, he brought out his monumental work, Khayyam. The nucleus of this book was an article on noted Persian scholar and poet Omar Khayyam.
His mentor, Maulana Shibli Nomani had made plans for Dar-ul-Mosannefeen (Academy of Authors) but could not implement this scheme. After his death, Sulaiman Nadvi founded Dar-ul-Mosannefeen at Azamgarh. The first book published was Ard-ul-Quran (2 volumes). In 1940, he published Rahmat-e-Aalam, a book written for children on the life of Muhammad.
Aligarh Muslim University conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctorate of Literature (DLitt) in 1940.
After partition of India, Sayyaed Sulaiman Nadvi migrated to Pakistan in June 1950 and settled in Karachi. He was appointed Chairman of Taleemat-e-Islami Board to advise the Islamic aspects of Pakistan's constitution. He died on November 22, 1953 in Karachi at the age of 69.
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