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Shaam Kii Aahat (Coming of the evening)
Diaspora poet Tashie Zaheer’s diwan inaugurated
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
North America’s prominent poet Tashie Zaheer’s diwan (Poetry Collection) – Shaam Kii Aahat – was inaugurated recently in a grand literary event sponsored by the Urdu Foundation of North America. The event was held at the ornate Chandni Restaurant, Newark CA.
Canada-based Ashfaq Hussain, a leading modern Urdu poet and an author of more than 10 books of poetry and literary criticism read a maqala on Tashie Zaheer’s diwan - Shaam Kii Aahat (Coming of the Evening). Ashfaq Hussain says: “It is necessary that the work of a Diaspora poet/writer should be analyzed and critically evaluated in his/her native home.”
Picture shows Urdu Foundation presenting a plaque to Tashie Zaheer on the inauguration of his diwan, Shaam Kii Aaahat.
Tashie Zaheer’s poetry meets this criteria as his diwan has been critically evaluated in his native land, Pakistan. Just one example: Literary quarterly magazine, AL ZUBAIR, published by the Urdu Academy Bhawalpur published a comment about Tashie’s diwan, Shaam Kii Aahat. Dr. Shahid Hussain Rizvi describes the anthology as an expression of pain of departure and separation from the native land. “It is now about 30 years that Tashie left his native land and the pain of separation is deeply reflected in many of his poems. He is unable to suppress this feeling of separation.”
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