Lateef Riaz

A heap of broken images... | GCU '25

[punnu - پُنّوں @punnu__khan]

داغِ فراق و حسرت‌ِ وصل آرزوئے شوق
میں ساتھ زیرِ خاک بھی ہنگامہ لے گیا

~ میر

[punnu - پُنّوں @punnu__khan]

جفا کم کن کہ فردا روزِ محشر
بروئے عاشقاں شرمندہ باشی
- امیر خسرو
the revered Ustad Salamat Ali Khan & his son Sharafat Ali Khan singing drut laya (fast tempo) with Ghulam Abbas on Tabla

[Man of Myth @Mythos_Man]

“Fate goes ever as it must!”

— Beowulf

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

More than a century later, little has changed—except that now, it seems, the war is being “sold” not once, but daily, even to the president himself, through carefully curated videos.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

It is said that Edward Bernays, a pioneer of mass persuasion, served on Committee on Public Information and worked to help Woodrow Wilson rally Americans for war in Europe. When he and Walter Lippmann met president in 1917, they reportedly said “We can sell the war to the public”

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

How Persian was lost as a culture spanning the world from Bosnia to Bengal https://t.co/fb6CgEOBbq

[Lateef Riaz @toil_for_light]

Richard Seymour, Cognitive Dissonance — Sidecar https://t.co/XrGeKMBktq

[Lateef Riaz @toil_for_light]

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together https://t.co/yyCFRtUhbo

[Rana Safvi رعنا राना @iamrana]

228th Birth anniversary
#Ghalib #shair
The only known photograph of Ghalib
The photo belonged to Mrs. Santosh Mathur, great-granddaughter of Babu Shiv Narain, who was a friend of Ghalib's; it is now in a private collection in Allahabad.
The scan is provided here through the courtesy of Alok Rai and Rajul Mathur, and through the good offices of Francesca Orsini, Jan. 2010.
( from Frances Pritchett website)

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 at Notre-Dame

[Raza Ahmad Rumi @Razarumi]

کُچھ وقت چاہتے تھے کہ سوچیں تِرے لیے
تو نے وُہ وقت ہم کو ، زمانے نہیں دیا

منیر نیازی

[punnu - پُنّوں @punnu__khan]

Circa 1971 - in a rare snippet, Reshma, the Nightingale of the Desert, sings "Kithe Nain Na Jorren" penned by Manzoor Jhalla.

[punnu - پُنّوں @punnu__khan]

remembering Faiz Ahmad Faiz on his 41st death anniversary. Born in Sialkot, studied in Lahore, taught in Amritsar, married in Srinagar, conspiracy in Rawalpindi, imprisoned in Hyderabad, lauded in Moscow & lived in exile in Beirut
- Faiz at All India Radio in 1938, '39, '40 & '44

[punnu - پُنّوں @punnu__khan]

remembering the chanteuse of Faizabad, the ghazal queen Begum Akhtar (1914-1974) on her 51st death anniversary. The voice that taught grief to sing; steeped in pathos and echoing in the ruins of dil-e-shikasta. Died on 30th Oct, 1974 & buried at Pasand Bagh, Lucknow.

[punnu - پُنّوں @punnu__khan]

عالم کسو حکیم کا باندھا طلسم ہے
کچھ ہو تو اعتبار بھی ہو کائنات کا
Mir Taqi Mir labels this world as a deception, an illusion conjured up, a spell woven by some magician/creator. If anything were truly real, then perhaps the universe could also be trusted.

[punnu - پُنّوں @punnu__khan]

Begum Akhtar at All India Radio in 1939, 1941 & 1942
The 4th attached picture is of Begum Akhtar's funeral
#DeathAnniversary

[Lateef Riaz @toil_for_light]

حافظا! تکیه بر ایّام چو سهو است و خطا
من چرا عشرتِ امروز به فردا فکنم

O Hafez! To trust in time is folly
Its promise melts like morning mist
Why pour today's fine wine
In tomorrow's hollow cup

[punnu - پُنّوں @punnu__khan]

it's the 8th death anniversary of crooner par excellence Girija Devi of Banaras (1929-2017). Here she sings "dewana kiye shaam kya jadu daara" in tabla-sangat of Ustad Zakir Hussain. Fondly named "Appa Ji", debuted at AIR Allahabad; queen of Thumris, Dadras Kajri, Hori & Chaiti.

[Lateef Riaz @toil_for_light]

As Oscar V. Campomanes, a professor of American and Philippine history at the Ateneo de Manila University, explained, the gap between America’s ideals and actions is its “original sin.”

https://t.co/CwJVBlTNF1

[punnu - پُنّوں @punnu__khan]

دل کے تیں آتش ہجراں سے بچایا نہ گیا
گھر جلا سامنے پر ہم سے بجھایا نہ گیا

- میر