So you think you have read everything ever written by Jaun Elia? Think again. And you think he never sought anyone’s approval? Think again! In a small room, perhaps the smallest of all of Beach Luxury ...
What to do of a man who spent his life questioning the necessity of his own existence? A man who romanticises tuberculosis? On the flipside, as his niece Shahana Rais notes, pines for a woman who’d ...
KARACHI Jaun Elia admired John Keats. Reason the latter died of tuberculosis. Jaun found the disease awfully romantic and liberating. He liked expectorating blood, and penned a great many couplets on ...
"My dear Mir Zafar Hasan, you’re one lucky person." "Why do you say that, Jaun sahib?" "You are an exceptionally good poet and at the same time you’re extremely fortunate. You are Mir, but you can be ...
In one of his illustrations for Ramooz – the book-length long poem by Jaun Elia written between 1962 and 1974 – artist Danish Raza paints the poet as a prophetic figure. Elia is depicted holding a ...
The legacy of Pakistani Marxist poet Jaun Elia’s remains eminent as social media marked his sixteenth death anniversary, flooded with signature quotes and poetry. On this occasion, fans took to ...
From the theaters and university campuses of Delhi to the graffitied walls and teahouses in Lahore, and from the Urdu poetry circles in North America to the mushairas in the UAE, the enduring ...
Kanishk Seth’s sounds are not your run-of-the-mill, overdone EDM and his latest song is testimony to that. I was learning Raga Jhinjhoti and reading Jaun Elia's poetry when this song was composed. In ...
Famous among Urdu literary circles today, it was only after his death that Pakistani communist poet Jaun Elia (1931- 2002) gained popularity and took the cyberspace by storm. What made him immensely ...
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