Aman ki Asha and the Faiz Art Prize: Postcards for Faiz
Apr 13, 2011
Bilal Farooqi
News, Poet Corner
Art and literature know no boundaries. Imagination sweeps over political demarcations, uniting people through the universal and timeless power of words and images. Such is the appeal of...
Sufi Moon contribution:
Aug 25, 2010
Beena Sarwar
News, Poet Corner
Dr. Anna Grichting-Solder, a Swiss architect, urbanist and musician who runs the non-profit Bordermeetings, is donating all proceeds of Sufi Moon to flood relief in Pakistan. The Sufi Moon project...
some gains, six decades of pain
May 05, 2010
Aman Ki Asha
Poet Corner
THE TIME IS NOW: At this juncture, there is opportunity and the potential to make headway. August, 1947: Under the Indian Independence Act of 1947, Kashmir could accede to India or Pakistan. As...
Third International Peace Festival 2010
Apr 28, 2010
Aman Ki Asha
News, Poet Corner
Eminent singers, performers, writers, journalists and political activists from South Asia and Canada are gathering at Mississauga Ontario on June 5th, 2010 for Third International Peace Festival...
From Calcutta, with love
Apr 09, 2010
farhanahmed
News, Poet Corner
KARACHI: Writer, poet, playwright and critic Dr Shahnaz Nabi spoke lavishly of her hosts and others while sipping a cup of tea before the Indo-Pak Mushaira at the Arts Council of Pakistan last month....
Peace… fuelled by woman power
Apr 02, 2010
Aman Ki Asha
News, Poet Corner
KARACHI: The Indo-Pak mushaira organised by Aman ki Asha at the Karachi Arts Council on Wednesday night featured a galaxy of women poets seated on open-air stage at one end of the Mushtaq Gazdar...
Mushaira held to boost Indo-Pak peace
Mar 31, 2010
Aman Ki Asha
News, Poet Corner
KARACHI: The poets from Pakistan and India participated in a mushaira organized at Arts Council of Pakistan in connection with joint venture by Jang Group of Pakistan and Times of India. Renowned...
‘Aman’ remains the buzzword at poetry evening
Feb 11, 2010
farhanahmed
News, Poet Corner
When in dark times, will there be also singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times,” wrote Bertolt Brecht, highlighting the importance of poetry in public discourse. The...
Amitabh,Zia liven up AKA initiative
Feb 10, 2010
farhanahmed
News, Poet Corner
MUMBAI: Jang Group of Pakistan and India’s Times of India are fully geared up to put the tense bilateral relations between the two countries back on track, amid stage set for the Indo-Pak talks...
An evening to remember two legendary poets of East
Feb 06, 2010
Bilal Farooqi
News, Poet Corner
In March 1998, one evening while his father was admitted to the ICU of Breach Candy Hospital, Amitabh Bachchan recited Hindi poems by Dr. Harivansh Amitabh Bachchan before a distinguished audience...
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