Naming the entire province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa explicitly links the region to one ethnic-group. Marginalising indigenous communities native to Hazara, Swat, Chitral, Kohistan, etc. A province's name should reflect all its people, not act as a tool for cultural appropriation 💔.
You're repeating 100 yr old Lucknow linguistic snobbery to critique a man who shifted the philosophical axis of Persian and Urdu poetry. Iqbal surely didn't write to satisfy grammarians.
You show a very major comprehension error here. Iqbal is actually admitting to the irony himself, that he is from a Brahman background, yet he is lecturing a Sayyid not to fall for western thought, which he equates to mental idolatory. It's a very beautiful nuance that
On some different forms of Punjabi poetry:
1) Kafi 🧵 (1/5)
Kafi has no specific mould called Chhand in Panjabi phonetics. It has, however, a prescribed manner of presentation as light classical music. Kafi music is popular with Qawwals.
You're repeating 100 yr old Lucknow linguistic snobbery to critique a man who shifted the philosophical axis of Persian and Urdu poetry. Iqbal surely didn't write to satisfy grammarians.
Calling Iqbal better than literary giants like Mir, Ghalib and Mir Anis is pure nationalism, as we know. Technically, Iqbal was an inferior poet whom his contemporaries in Lucknow regularly mocked. And philosophy? My foot He's a plagiarist.
Iqbal has streets named after him in Iran, Germany, Uzbekistan and Egypt amongst other countries in the Islamic World and honorary graves in Turkey but sure it’s pure nationalism.
Another copium gem from Indians.
More provinces will cause fierce resource wars and worsen ethnic divides instead of fixing them.
Separating hubs like Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad and Sialkot from their provinces will be devastating for people in undeveloped areas.