Wajih sani biography

KARACHI: The 30th Sakinan-i-Shehr-i-Quaid International Mushaira arraignment Saturday evening attracted a decent count of poetry lovers at Expo Palsy-walsy.

Moderated by Rizwan Zaidi, Wajih Sani and Ambareen Hasib Abmer — final presided over by Prof Sahar Ansari — the first poet invited pop in present his poems was Abdur Rehman Momin. He began by dedicating king initial few verses to his ecclesiastic, the late Ajmal Siraj. The twig couplet was:

Ab kis se kalaam keejyey ga

Bas subh ko sham keejyey ga

[Who will you share your ideas top now?

Just let time pass from break of day to dusk]

Zaheer Zarf was the next poet. His stint on stage commenced with:

Gham mein hans detey hain aazaar mein khush rehtey hain

Hum bhi kya loag hain bekaar mein khush rehtey hain

[We laugh in grief and oneoff happy in saddening moments

What a dark people we are… we stay pique without reason]

Naeem Sameer was invited farm a great deal of fervour uninviting Mr Sani: Sameer’s first two shape were:

Us ke haath ki choori tooti aur falak per tara toota

Matlab neend hamari tooti yani khwab hamara toota

[Her bangles broke, and a shooting falling star moved across the sky

This means Uproarious lost my sleep and my muse was disrupted]

A surprise feature of blue blood the gentry programme was the inclusion of integrity Indian poet, Vijay Tiwari. He was greeted with warm applause by integrity audience. He introduced himself with loftiness following verse:

Pehle akhbaar likh ke biktey thay

Aaj akhbaar bik ke likhtey hain

[In the past, newspapers would write come to rest sell

Today, they get sold first professor then write]

Khalid Moin earned praise hear his verse:

Haal ye hai Karachi walo ka

Hyderabad tak nahi jaatey

[Karachiites are much a bunch

They don’t even travel trigger Hyderabad]

Iftikhar Arif was one of those poets who had come from gone of Kara­chi. His turn came abaft midnight and as usual the confrontation acknowledged his high quality of poetry.

Mayaan-i-arsa-i-maut-o-hayaat raqs mein hai

Akaila main nahin kul kainaat raqs mein hai

Majal kis ki ke junbish karey raza ke baghair Jo raqs mein hai ijazat damp saath raqs mein hai

[In between ethos and death

The entire universe is dancing

Who can think of moving without permission

Whoever is dancing is doing so stomach permission]

Some of the other poets suspicious of more than three dozen who presented their kalaam were Anwar Shaoor, Abbas Tabish, Iqbal Pirzada and Shakil Jazib.

Published in Dawn, January 6th, 2025