Syed Afsar Sajid

Syed Afsar Sajid

The writer is a Faisalabad based former bureaucrat, poet, literary and cultural analyst, and an academic. He can be reached at: [email protected].

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Pakistan Academy of Letters’ publication galore

‘The translations are manifestly intended to enable the speakers of the major Pakistani languages (other than Urdu), to understand and appreciate Allama Iqbal’s poetry and its latent message.’   ‘Six prose<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/01/09/pakistan-academy-of-letters-publication-galore/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Jan 9, 2018
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An adroit translation

The book is likely to arouse curiosity and interest among the Urdu reading public in the life and work of the man who coined the moniker Pakistan  Title:  Sawaneh

Dec 9, 2017
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Of the distaff literature

Reviewing two collections of Urdu verse and a miscellany of Urdu prose writings authored by noted female writers from Faisalabad and Lahore Book 1:‘She had resolved not to

Oct 1, 2017
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Zia Butt’s memoirs and short stories

A known literary figure regards these stories as a ‘mirror’ of our eventful existence at both personal and collective levels ‘The author, in an anecdotal style, wistfully recapitula

Sep 10, 2017
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Of fiction, Old and New

The two books belong to two entirely different epochs of literary lineage viz., the early modern and the post-modern converging on a cross-literary mosaic The Valley of Fear Author: Arthur Conan<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/08/20/of-fiction-old-and-new/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Aug 20, 2017
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Najma Mansoor as a prose poet and compiler

From a cursory perusal of the book, there appears to be a marked evolution in her art in the period intervening between 1990 and 2016 ‘The difficulty with prose poetry is that if it

Jul 23, 2017
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Voices, Heard and Unheard

Here is a joint review of four recently published books with diverse substance like critical insights in Urdu, poems in Urdu, a female Iranian poet’s Persian poems translated into Urdu, and a Pakist

Nov 13, 2016