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Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry Biography

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It was also raining that memorable night forty two years ago as a frail young women looked out of the window of the hospital. Dawn was far away and it was chilly. The cry of the moazzan rang out clear for the fajar,morning prayer and with it rang the cry of her new born child. The lady doctor announced that it was a girl. The mother was Afzal-un-Nissa, the father was Syed Shakir Hussain Zaidi,the hospital,Lady

Dufferin Hospital.Karachi and the Lady Doctor Dr.Ghulam Hussain.The day was Mnoday,the 24th of November,1952, and the baby girl was Perveen Shakir.

The parents had their first child.a girl born on 16th March 1950, whom they called Nasreen Bano. Since Afzal-un-Nissa did not enjy good health,the doctors had advised her only one more child. For her next child she prayed and fasted a lot, devoting her time to recitation of Quranic Verses. In November 1952 her second child was born, a beautifull daughter with a large forehead,black hair,big beautiful eyes,full lips and long eye-lashesin the muslim month of safar. They named her parveen bano,after the Persian name of a galaxy of stars.

Childhood:
The two sisters grew up together as friends, sharing their toys and books. It was a happy household, with great emphasis on learning.

The meaning of the verse is that we muslims cannot be bowed down by evil forces, we have been tested several times.It somehow sunk deep into their hearts and formed a foundation of their outlook on life.

At the age of three, Praveen was sent to school along with her sister. They called her “para” out of affection. She was an adorable child. The School was Islamia High School of Rizvia Colony and near their house. When in class Three she received a double promotion and

Their education started along before going to school.Mr.Askari whom the girls called “Nanna”, the urdu name for the maternal grandfather, taught them the love of books,of poetry,of knowledge . He was a Homeopathic doctor by profession and poetry was his hobby.

joined her sister in class 5. It was an English medium school and went up to this class only. The girls were then sent to “ The Rising Sun” school in the Chaurangai area. After a year and a half the school closed down altogether, and they then shifted to the “Rizvia Girls Secondary School” situated hardly 10 yards away from their house. It was run by a renowned and dedicated lady,Zahida Taqi,elder sister of Professor Karrar Hussain. She gave her students individual attention and encouraged extra-curricular activities. Parveen was a brilliant student,coming first in her class always and winning and laurels for the school as well. In Class Eight she wrote an article which the teacher not only rated “excellent” but also remarked that it was from a “Mustaqbil ki maroof Adiba” , a writer of the future. Her favourite teacher in school was Miss Amina with whom she liked to be photographed often.

As a child she was not very fond of toys or dolls, but preferred outdoor activities,when not reading. The sisters climbed trees, plucked fruit,mainly guavas,played ball or “kiri-kara”,hop-scotch. On rainy days they would play in the rain,but when forced to stay indoors would play games involving mental activity.Seeing her love for reading,Parveen’s father always got her books containing short stories of prophets or on religious topics. Her mother was a very religious person,never missing her prayers and always attending the Majlis, the religious gathering. The little parveen loved going with her as the zakiras,women oraters, the majlis, the entire atmosphere fascinated her. Once she left behind,but somehow managed to find her way all by herself to the house where the majlis was being held.One of her favourite zakiras was Batool Turabi,whom she would imitate at home,reciting nohas,religious poems, in her style before and audience of little children.

Nana saw the poetry inside her. He and his wife were devoted to the girls, not having children of their own. Parveen took poetry lessons from Nana.In her text books she would look for the poetry section and memories a poem first. She would also compose a tune for it and then sing it. It was the day of the radio, and Perveen loved the music programs always humming along with them. Nasreen on the other hand was fascinated by the medicines of her Nana, and would assist him in making the doses. Later in life, Nasreen studied Homeopathy and later became a doctor of that branch.

One of Parveen’s idiosyncracies was her aversion to wearing shoes. She would take off her chappals at all the times and would be invariably be loosing them,coming home from a majlis or a party without them or even wearing boys shoes on one occasion. She retained this habbit throughout her life. She always took her shoes off when driving a car. Several years later on a rainy day she onced stopped outside a shoe shop in Jinnah Super Market, Islamabad blowing the horn desperately. The salesman ran outside and was asked to bring a pair of shoes to the car. He was amused and Obliged her immediately. She had dropped one shoe on the road somewhere and could not reach her next destination without it! Parveen could not be bound to the earth by shoes and chappals. She had to go far beyond, she had a path of her own, destined to soar higher in her achievements and attain higher goals in life.

Highlights:

Following are the highlights of Perveen Shakir's life. She was a very enthusiastic personality.

1952 Born on Monday, November 24th
1966 Matric
1968 F.A.
1970 Best Poet award by USIS Karachi
1971 B.A. (Hons) in English
1972 M.A. English Literature from the University of Karachi
1973 Lecturer in English, Abdullah College for Women, Karachi
1974 Wrote columns for Daily Jang, 1972 – 1974
1975 Engagement
1976 Marriage
1977 First book “Khushboo” inaugurated in Karachi
1978 Awarded the Adamjee Award for Poetry (Khushboo)
Birth of son, Murad
1979 Awarded a Gold medal for the best poet of the year 1079, at the Silver Jubliee celebrations of Sir Syed College for women, Karachi
1980 Second book “Sadberg” inaugurated in Karachi. M.A. English Linguistics, Karachi.
1981 CSS Exam
1982 Civil Services Academy, Lahore. 10th Common Batch
1983 Training at the National Institute of Customs and Excise, Karachi
1984 Posted as A.C. Customs, Custom House, Karachi
1985 Third book “Khud Kalami” inaugurated at Lahore, Awarded the Alahma Iqbal Hira Award for Poetry
1986 Posted as Second Secretary, Central Board of Revenue (CBR), Islamabad. Awarded the Zahoor Nazar Award for Urdu Nazam, India
1987 Divorce
1987 Visited China as member, Writers Delegation
1988 Posted as Assistant Collector, Excise and Sales Tax, Rawalpindi. Posted as Assistant Director(Admn), Rawalpindi Collectorate
1989 Awarded the Faiz Ahmed Faiz International Award for Poetry, by the World Urdu Conference, New Delhi, India.
1990 Fourth book “Inkaar” inaugurated at Islamabad. Fullbright Scholar – in - Residence Teaching Scholarship at the university of Hartford, Conn. USA.
1991 Received the President’s Pride of Performance Award in Poetry
M.P.A Degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Assistant
1992 Director, Customs Intelligence, Islamabad. Six week, Management Information Systems Course, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore.
1993 Deputy Director Inspection and Training, Customs and Central Excise, Islamabad
1994 “Mah-e-Tamam” collection of the four books, published. Wrote weekly column in the daily “Jang”, entitled “Gosh-e-Chashm”
Death Monday the 26th of December 1994

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Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry in Urdu SMS in Urdu Pics by Wasi Shah Wallpapers About Love on Facebook in English

Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry in Urdu SMS in Urdu Pics by Wasi Shah Wallpapers About Love on Facebook in English

Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry in Urdu SMS in Urdu Pics by Wasi Shah Wallpapers About Love on Facebook in English

Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry in Urdu SMS in Urdu Pics by Wasi Shah Wallpapers About Love on Facebook in English

Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry in Urdu SMS in Urdu Pics by Wasi Shah Wallpapers About Love on Facebook in English

Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry in Urdu SMS in Urdu Pics by Wasi Shah Wallpapers About Love on Facebook in English

Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry in Urdu SMS in Urdu Pics by Wasi Shah Wallpapers About Love on Facebook in English

Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry in Urdu SMS in Urdu Pics by Wasi Shah Wallpapers About Love on Facebook in English

Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry in Urdu SMS in Urdu Pics by Wasi Shah Wallpapers About Love on Facebook in English

Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry in Urdu SMS in Urdu Pics by Wasi Shah Wallpapers About Love on Facebook in English

Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry in Urdu SMS in Urdu Pics by Wasi Shah Wallpapers About Love on Facebook in English

Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry in Urdu SMS in Urdu Pics by Wasi Shah Wallpapers About Love on Facebook in English

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Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry in Urdu SMS in Urdu Pics by Wasi Shah Wallpapers About Love on Facebook in English

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Parveen Shakir Sad Poetry Biography

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Pride of Performance Award Recipient
Date 14-08-1990
Country Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Presented by Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Parveen Shakir (Urdu: پروین شاکر‎) (November 24, 1952 – December 26, 1994) was an Urdu poet, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan.
Parveen started writing at an early age and published her first volume of poetry, Khushbu [Fragrance], to great acclaim, in 1976.[2] She subsequently published other volumes of poetry - all well-received - Sad-barg [Marsh Marigold] in 1980, Khud Kalami [Soliloquy] and Inkar [Denial] in 1990, Kaf e Aina [The Mirror's Edge] besides a collection of her newspaper columns, titled Gosha-e-Chashm [The Sight Corner], and was awarded one of Pakistan's highest honours, the Pride of Performance for her outstanding contribution to literature.[2] The poetry books are collected in the volume Mah e Tamam [Full Moon] with the exception of Kaf e Aina.
Parveen died in 1994 in a car accident while on her way to work.[2]
Contents [hide]
1 Early career
1.1 Style
1.1.1 Ghazalyaat
1.1.2 Free verse
1.2 Critical reception
1.3 Honours
2 Personal life
2.1 Birth
2.2 Education
2.3 Family, and death
3 Books
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Early career[edit]

Parveen started writing at a young age, penning both prose and poetry, and contributing columns in Urdu newspapers, and a few articles in English dailies.[3] Initially, she wrote under the pen-name, "Beena".[2] Shakir held two masters degrees, one in English Literature and one in Linguistics. She also held a PhD and another masters degree in Bank Administration.[citation needed]
She was a teacher for nine years before she joined the Civil Service and worked in the Customs Department. In 1986 she was appointed the second secretary, CBR in Islamabad.[citation needed]
Style[edit]
Shakir employed mainly two forms of poetry in her work, one being the prevalent ghazal [plural: ghazalyaat], and the other being free verse. The most prominent themes in Shakir's poetry are love, feminism, and social stigmas, though she occasionally wrote on other topics as well. Her work was often based on romanticism, exploring the concepts of love, beauty and their contradictions, and heavily integrated the use of metaphors, similes and personifications.[4]
Arguably, Shakir can be termed the first female poet to use the word larki (girl) in her works—the male-dominated Urdu poetry scene seldom employs that word, and uses masculine syntax when talking about the 'lover'. Similarly, she often made use of the Urdu first-person, feminine pronoun in her verses which, though extremely common in prose, was rarely used in poetry, even by female poets, before her.[5]
Ghazalyaat[edit]
See also Ghazal in Khushbu.
Shakir's ghazalyaat are considered "a combination of classical tradition with modern sensitivity",[4] and mainly deal with the feminine perspective on love and romance, and associated themes such as beauty, intimacy, separation, break-ups, distances, distrust and infidelity and disloyalty.
Most of Shakir's ghazalyaat contain five to ten couplets, often - though not always - inter-related. Sometimes, two consecutive couplets may differ greatly in meaning and context [For example, in one of her works, the couplet 'That girl, like her home, perhaps/ Fell victim to the flood is immediately followed by 'I see light when I think of you/ Perhaps remembrance has become the moon'[6]].
Shakir's ghazalyaat heavily rely on metaphors and similes, which are repeatedly and thought-provokingly used to bring force and lyricism in her work. A fine example of this is seen in one of her most famous couplets, "Wo tou khushbu hai, hawaon main bikhar jaye ga/ Masla phool ka hai, phool kidher jayega?"[7] [Translation: He is fragrance and would waft in the air/ the trouble lies with the flower - where shall the flower go?] where Shakir relates 'fragrance' to an unfaithful lover, 'air' to the unfaithful person's secret loves, and 'flower' to the person being cheated. Other metaphors Shakir commonly uses are titli [butterfly] for a Romeo, badal [cloud] for one's love, baarish [rain] for affection, and andhi [storm] for difficulties.
Some of Shakir's ghazalyaat or, more specifically, couplets, have gained an iconic status in Urdu literature. One of her most famous couplets if the one given above. Another famous, Shakir couplet is "Jugnuu ko din kay wakt parakhne ki zid karain/ Bachchay hamaray ehed kay chalaak ho gaye"[8] [They insist upon evaluating the firefly in daylight/ The children of our age, have grown clever], which is often quoted to comment on the often surprising knowledge and awareness of the 21st century child.
Free verse[edit]
As compared to her ghazalyaat Shakir's free verse is much bolder, and explores social issues and taboos, including gender inequality, discrimination, patriotism, deceit, prostitution, the human psyche, and current affairs. It is also much more modern and up-to-date.
Shakir is known for having employed the usage of pop culture references and English words and phrases, that have mixed up with Urdu, in her free verse - a practice that is both generally considered inappropriate, and criticized, in Urdu poetry. An example is the poem Departmental Store MeiN [In a Departmental Store], which is named thus despite the fact that there the term 'departmental store' could easily have been substituted with its Urdu equivalent, and where words like 'natural pink,' 'hand lotion,' 'shade,' 'scent' and 'pack' are brought into use, and references made to cosmetics brands like, Pearl, Revlon, Elizabeth Arden, and Tulip.[9] Other examples are her poems Ecstasy, Nun [10] and Picnic.[11]
Shakir's free verse also contains a few, credited translated or inspired works i.e. poems that are translations of, or inspired by, other authors. Examples are Wasteland, a poem inspired by Elliot's poem of the same name,[12] and Benasab Wirsay Ka Bojh [The Burden of Illegitimate Inheritance], a translation of W.B. Yeats's Leda and the Swan.[13]
Critical reception[edit]
Shakir's poetry was well-received, and after her untimely death she is now considered one of the best and "most prominent" modern poets Urdu language has ever produced. Hailed as a "great poetess," her poetry has drawn comparisons to that of Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad, and she is considered among the breed of writers "regarded as pioneers in defying tradition by expressing the "female experience" in Urdu poetry."[4]
A source states, "Parveen ... seems to have captured the best of Urdu verse ... Owing to [her] style and range of expressions one will be intrigued and ... entertained by some soul-stirring poetry." [14] Another praises "her rhythmic flow and polished wording."[3]
Literary figure Iftikhar Arif has praised Shakir for impressing "the young lot through her thematic variety and realistic poetry," for adding "a new dimension to the traditional theme of love by giving expression to her emotions in a simple and pellucid style," and using a "variety of words to convey different thoughts with varying intensities."[4]
The Delhi Recorder has stated that Shakir "has given the most beautiful female touch to Urdu poetry."
The first substantial selection of Shakir's work translated into English was made by the poet Rehan Qayoom in 2013.[15]
Honours[edit]
Shakir's first book, Khushbu, was awarded the Adamjee Award. Later, she was awarded the Pride of Performance, one of Pakistan's highest honours.[1]
Upon her death, the Parveen Shakir Trust was established by her close friend, Parveen Qadir Agha. The Parveen Shakir Trust organizes a yearly function and gives out the "Aks-e-Khushbo" award.
Personal life[edit]

Birth[edit]
Parveen was born on 24 November 1952 in Karachi,.[5]
Education[edit]
Shakir was highly educated. She received two undergraduate degrees, one in English literature and the other in linguistics, and obtained MA degrees in the same subjects from the University of Karachi. She also held a PhD, and another MA degree in Bank Administration.[2]
In 1982, Shakir qualified the Central Superior Services Examination. In 1991, she obtained an MA degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, USA.[5]
Family, and death[edit]
Shakir married a Pakistani doctor, Naseer Ali, with whom she had a son, Syed Murad Ali—but the marriage did not last long and ended in a divorce.[5]
On Dec 26th, 1994, Shakir's car collided with a bus while she was on her way to work in Islamabad. The accident resulted in her death, a great loss to the Urdu poetry world.[2] The road on which the accident took place is named after her.
Books[edit]

Following is a list of Shakir's published books. A translation of each's title follows in italics.
Volumes of Poetry

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