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| John Elia |
Jaun Elia (Urdu: جون ایلیا, December 14, 1931 - November 8, 2002) was a notable Pakistani Urdu poet, philosopher, biographer, and scholar. He was the brother of journalist and psychoanalyst Rais Amrohvi and journalist and philosopher Syed Muhammad Taqi, and husband of columnist Zahida Hina. He was fluent in Arabic, English, Persian, Sanskrit and Hebrew.
An eminent Urdu literary critic, Muhammad Ali Siddiqui, has called Elia one of the three most eminent ghazal poets of Urdu of the second half of the twentieth century.
In what follows, you can enjoy reading “Ratain Sachi Hain Din Jhootay Hain” (Urdu: راتیں سچی ہیں دن جھوٹے ہیں) (English: Nights are Truthful and Days are Untrue), a beautiful Urdu Poem [Nazam/ نظم] by John Elia. I hope you will like it and let me know about your precious comments.
Thanks a lot for sharing such a nice post. You are working on Urdu poetry which has a great impact not only in subcontinent but across the world as well and Jaun Elia Poetry poetry is one of the tools to promote Urdu.
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