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Dr. Khalid Sohail

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Khalid Sohail and I met in 1985 when both of us were in London to celebrate 50th anniversary of the Progressive Writers' Association. It was here in London, in 1935, that some intellectuals from India, among them Mulk Raj Anand, Sajjad Zaheer and Jyotirmaya Ghosh, drafted the manifesto of The Progressive Writers' Association, and then took the movement to India where it became and then remained one of the dominant thought process for the last fifty years. From South Asia, anyone with literary inclination and a bend towards a progressive outlook on life attended the meeting in 1985. Although most attendants wrote in Urdu, but people writing in several other languages also were there. It was a chance meeting with Khalid Sohail- I had gone to a hotel looking for Ashfaq Hussain; then, the editor of Urdu International, Toronto, Canada. He was not there, instead I found an extremely interesting person in that room. What was intended to be a casual meetiong turned into an intensive exchange of thoughts and lasted for several hours. Thirty-one years have elapsed but neither the intensity nor the exchange of ideas has come to a culmination. In the beginning it was a pre-internet period; thus, our communication was maintained mostly by long letters and short telephone calls. We visited each other several times- it is a long way between Canada and Sweden, but we managed. Lately, the internet has completely changed the way we communicate. Best of all, our families also got happily entangled in our friendship. During our last meeting in Toronto 2016, Khalid Sohail suggested that we should share our thoughts with our readers. The result of that suggestion is in your hands now.

Pages: 206

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: April 06, 2017

words, words and words

Dr. Khalid Sohail

0/5 ( ratings)

Khalid Sohail and I met in 1985 when both of us were in London to celebrate 50th anniversary of the Progressive Writers' Association. It was here in London, in 1935, that some intellectuals from India, among them Mulk Raj Anand, Sajjad Zaheer and Jyotirmaya Ghosh, drafted the manifesto of The Progressive Writers' Association, and then took the movement to India where it became and then remained one of the dominant thought process for the last fifty years. From South Asia, anyone with literary inclination and a bend towards a progressive outlook on life attended the meeting in 1985. Although most attendants wrote in Urdu, but people writing in several other languages also were there. It was a chance meeting with Khalid Sohail- I had gone to a hotel looking for Ashfaq Hussain; then, the editor of Urdu International, Toronto, Canada. He was not there, instead I found an extremely interesting person in that room. What was intended to be a casual meetiong turned into an intensive exchange of thoughts and lasted for several hours. Thirty-one years have elapsed but neither the intensity nor the exchange of ideas has come to a culmination. In the beginning it was a pre-internet period; thus, our communication was maintained mostly by long letters and short telephone calls. We visited each other several times- it is a long way between Canada and Sweden, but we managed. Lately, the internet has completely changed the way we communicate. Best of all, our families also got happily entangled in our friendship. During our last meeting in Toronto 2016, Khalid Sohail suggested that we should share our thoughts with our readers. The result of that suggestion is in your hands now.

Pages: 206

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: April 06, 2017

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