Tribute

How quickly time flies. Recalling exact dates of past events is more of a Herculean task for me, but it was a memorable day somewhere in the late 1960s when I first met Wajid Shamsul Hasan in Karachi in his Daily News office.

When a journalist dies, a whole era ends with him.

Tribute Farooq Qaiser Man of Many Talents By Javed Ansari | June 2021 One remembers Farooq Qaiser as a puppeteer

Tribute I.A. Rehman – The Marathon Ends Here! By Javed Ansari | May 2021 In the 1970s, I was a

Tribute S.G. Jilanee A Life Well-Spent By Javed Ansari | February 2021 S.G. Jilanee, a prolific writer in SouthAsia magazine,

Tribute Irfan Hussain – He Gave Us So Much By Syed Jawaid Iqbal | January 2021 Irfan Hussain, the prolific

Tribute September 2020 Renowned Urdu poet and lyricist, Dr Rahat Indori, passed away recently. He was admitted to a hospital

Tributes July 2020 Remembering Iqbal Akhund It came as a real shock to me when I learned of Iqbal Akhund’s

The Legacy of Ali Habib A stream of condolences poured in following the death of Ali Habib in Karachi on

Well Played, Waqar Hassan! By Faizan Usmani | March 2020 It was Friday, September 28, 2018, about 10 a.m., when

Professor Stephen Cohen