In the 16th century, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai wrote a set of love poems in Sindhi to express Sufi mysticism, metaphorically capturing the tension between love and law, head and heart In the 16th ...
HYDERABAD: Making the literary work of Shaikh Ayaz, a Sindhi poetic colossus of twentieth century, relevant to the present, the fourth annual edition of five-day Ayaz Melo commenced in Hyderabad on ...
No creative writer can be universal without being recognized locally, noted the literati gathered on Monday to pay homage to the stalwart Sindhi and Urdu poet Shaikh Ayaz. “Shaikh Ayaz was among the ...
The urs [death anniversary] of the sonorous Sufi poet of the 18th-19th century, Sachal Sarmast, starts in just a few days on the 13th day of Ramazan, in the small, glowing village of Daraza Sharif ...
‘Sindhi Tapestry’: How an anthology of works by 60 Sindhi writers from around the world came to life
On 9 June 2020, out of the blue, the way such things tend to happen, I received an email from one Anil Jaisinghani with subject line “Totally Impressed”. Anil was writing to tell me what had happened ...
MITHI: Speakers at a literary symposium said that Shaikh Ayaz’s poetry provides ideas for creating connections between civilisations in the light of the message of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai in an age of ...
In the age of Instagram philosophy, defined by broad statements compressed into two-minute video Reels, the detailed abstraction of Sufi poems can feel confusing. Yet, within those poems lie centuries ...
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