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Lamakaan trust Hyderabad in association with Shabkhoon, Allahabad is delighted to present a day long commemoration of the great Urdu critic, editor, novelist and poet Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

date: 27th July, at Lamakaan, Hyderabad


Professor Ahmed Mahfooz will speak on Shamsur Rahman Faruqi ki Nazariyati Tanqeed

Mahmood Farooqui will discuss his criticism via 2 English papers by Shamsur Raman Faruqi Conventions of Love and Love of Conventions: Urdu Love Poetry in the 18th century


Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and fiction in Urdu and India

Baran Faruqi will read out excerpts from his cult classic novel Kai Chand The Sar e Aasman and his collection of stories Sawar, and discuss the makings of his fiction



Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and the recovery of Mir and classical Urdu poetics

Professor Mahfooz will speak of his work on Mir

Mahmood farooqui will read out excepts from his magnum opus She Sher e Shor Angez

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and the recovery of Dastans and Dastangoi
Mahmood Farooqui will speak about his 5 volume study of the Dastan e Amir hamza and how Dastangoi came to be revived

Performance of Dastan-e Mir by Mahmood Farooqui