Preface to 'Dast e Saba' by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
From the Blog hassanqadeerbuttAn era has passed since Ghalib wrote that an eye that can't see the river Tigris in a drop of water is not an eye that has sight but rather it is a children's play. If Ghalib was our contemporary, then probably one of the critics would have called out that Ghalib had insulted the children's play. Or that Ghalib appears to be a proponent of propaganda in literature. To urge a poet's eye to see Tigris in a drop is utter propaganda. His eye is only interested in beauty and if beauty is seen in a drop then it should be of no concern to the poet if the drop belongs to either Tigris or a street. To show Tigris is the job of a sage, philosopher or a politician; this not the work of a poet. If what these individuals said was right, then regardless of the fact that the honor of the wayspakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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