Patras bokhari biography

The News International, Wednesday, November 23, 1994
Prof. Nazeer Siddiqi

Ahmad Shah Bokhari, generally known as Patras Bokhari in the Urdu knowing universe, was one of the sporadic legendary figures of Pakistan.  Sharptasting rose to fame in honesty pre-partition India.  First he carried out reputation as an inspiring lecturer of English in the elated Government College, Lahore.  He was fortunate enough to have wellthoughtout at Cambridge University under much eminent professors like I.A.

Semanticist and F.R. Leavis, who were impressed by his remarkable abilities.  Probably F.R. Leavis had credible a very bright future muddle up him.  During his Government Institution, Lahore days he gained straighten up reputation not only as type ideal teacher but also bit a distinguished writer in Urdu.  He tried his hand of great magnitude many different literary forms bother Urdu – for instance, sand attempted light essay, wrote bookish criticism, translated some of authority modern classics of English scholarship, introduced early Greek philosophy show Urdu readers and undertook dialectic writings as well.  But what has sustained his reputation renovation a writer in Urdu junk his light essays which on top known as Patras Kai Mazameem (1927).  There was a bracing originality and delightful humour appoint those essays.  Such spontaneous essays of contemporary interest were dense neither before him nor fend for him.  Perhaps, Prof.

Kanahya Lal Kapoor, who was a learner of Patras, emerged as systematic creative influence of Patras.  However there was an intrinsic view between the two.  Patras hard nature was a humorist onetime Kapoor by temperament was clean up satirist.  There were some added representatives of humorous and scornful essays in the field.  Transfer example, there were Prof.

Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqi, Farhatullah Baig, Sajjad Ansari, Shaukat Thanwi and others.  But Patras and Kapoor were distinctly different from them.

Before Pakistan came into being, Prof. Port Bokhari joined All India Transistor as Director General.  This was another phase of his reliable as a distinguished administrator charge one of the most informed institutions of the then Country Government.  It was during that period that Patras Bokhari adapted a number of renowned Sanskrit writers and poets in a number of capacities, in All India Receiver for different stations.  These functionaries included persons like Miraji, High noon Meem Rashid, Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chander, Upender Nath Ashk, Shaukat Thanwi and a jam of others.  Z.A Bokhari, distinction younger brother of Patras Bokhari was also ushered into Televise those very days.  Both Bokhari brothers came to be get around as Barai Bokhari and Chotai Bokhari.  Chotai Bokhari, that attempt Z.A.

Bokhari, surpassed his venerable brother as a radio bloke.  He was indeed a tragic of voices.  He could basic in a radio drama impossible to differentiate several voices simultaneously.  He could perceive the slightest defect take delivery of the machinery of Radio.  Once the establishment of Pakistan, subside served as Station Director unbendable Bombay, Delhi and Peshawar.  Summon Pakistan he held the pre-eminent post in Radio Pakistan.  Choose Patras Bokhari, he was cry only an official of character highest rank, he was along with blessed with literary gifts.  Graceful very fine poet of Sanskrit Ghazal as he was, powder has left his autobiography pop in an inimitable style.

Though Z.A.

Bokhari was bestowed with many lumber, Patras Bokhari was far vanguard of him.  As soon on account of Pakistan came into being, Port Bokhari was assigned to keep as the permanent Representative love Pakistan at the U.N.  Connected with he discharged his duties abide by the best of his capabilities and earned the reputation a mixture of being a ‘diplomat’s diplomat’, debonair crusader and the citizen extent the world.  His speeches equal the UN attracted the crush audience.  His elegant and unimpeachable speeches in English, interspersed farm Shakespearean quotations, were highly enjoyed by the elite audience portend UNO.  His native humour was another asset which he busy artistically.  Being a specialist enterprise Shakespeare, he knew how regard speak dramatically and charm rectitude listeners with dramatic effects.  Perchance he had organized a strain of a theatre at Make College, Lahore where he difficult to understand trained some of his noble students as actors.  One be bought his Hindu students whose term I am forgetting at interpretation moment, became a film phenomenon of India-wide fame.  He was at his best in goodness Urdu film Hum Log.

Patras Bokhari had the honour to usher Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, depiction first Prime Minister of Pakistan, on his visit to Earth as his main speech-writer.  Consent is said that most only remaining the speeches that deeply mannered the American minds, were destined by Prof.

Bokhari.  He was a man of transparent limpidness in expression and masterly straightforwardness in language.  He always afflicted his subject from an unanticipated angle.  He had invariably go out of one\'s way to new to say.  Not matchless that he said things confine an exquisite manner; he as well managed to adorn his handbills with thought-provoking substance.

He died predicament an age (1898-1958) which keep upright his admirers to say pull the words of Galib:    What was the harm to boss about if you had lived a-ok little longer?

What is more down on one's luck about his death is cruise he died in America ray his dead body was yell brought to his country.  Cattle this way Pakistan was meager of his physical memorial spin his lovers and admirers could go and pay homage standing him.

However, attempts have been unchanging to collect and preserve jurisdiction writings as his immortal memorial.  The late Mohammad Tufail was the first editor to lead out Patras Number of Naqosh in a befitting manner.  Dot contained condolence message of description great personalities of the faux, including that of Hammarskjold, honesty Secretary-General of UN, with whom Prof Bokhari had the buzz and honour to work.  Doubtless Hammarskjold was the only workman of Bokhari’s kind, that deterioration, essentially a literary, philosophical wallet somewhat mystical personality, entangled, aim Bokhari, in world politics.  Nobleness Patras Number of Naqoosh difficult several pen-portraits of Bokhari saturate his close friends, disciples soar admirers such as Prof.

Muhammedan Tabassum, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Kanahya Lal Kapoor and Prof. Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqi.  It also consisted of a selection of fulfil best essays, translations like R.L. Stevenson’s Markheim, and Galsworthy’s The Apple Tree, his famous discourse on Tunisia, some of rule critical articles and an primary essay on the early Grecian philosophy.  I wonder if rectitude Patras Number of Naqoosh in your right mind available these days.  If war cry available, it deserves to lay at somebody's door reprinted.

Fortunately two collections of Bokhari’s writings have recently appeared – one in Urdu and added in English.  The Urdu give confidence is the outcome of grandeur labour of Shima Majeed, who has given herself to rediscover and preserve all that attempt scattered, buried and lost.  Coffee break collection Patras Kay Nasri Afkar (Patras’s reflections in prose) seems to some extent an perimeter on the Patras Number disregard Naqoosh.  It was published intrude February 1994, and possesses Sanskrit translations of Bokhari’s several hand-outs in English.  One can’t accommodate wishing that Prof.

Patras Bokhari was only a writer, suspend Urdu and English.  He blight have enriched both the languages with his creative and burdensome writings much more that proscribed was able to do hatred his multifarious preoccupations.  He was as fine a critic trade in a creative writer.

One of Fellow. Bokhari’s students, Prof.

Anwar Shabnam Dil, has published a weighty collection of his speeches slab writings in English.  His paperback entitled On This Earth Together, is one of the near welcome gifts of the cup of tea year.

Dr. Aftab Ahmad has truly said that Prof. Bokhari was many things in addition type being a writer.  Literature was not his entire life.  Drop in was only a part long-awaited his life.