ISLAMABAD, July 29: Mystic poet Waris Shah’s thoughts can enlighten us to find solutions of many problems of our age, said Shafqat Tanveer Mirza in his presidential remarks at a literary ...

And my poem took shape.” This ode to Waris Shah, the Sufi poet who had penned the tragic story of Punjab’s folk heroine Ranjha, written during a sorrowing journey, went straight to the hearts ...

Eighteenth century Sufi poet Waris Shah’s rendition of the legendary Heer-Ranjha story completes 250 years. Delhi pays tribute to an epic that’s inspired generations In 2016, Waris Shah’s ...

"To untangle Waris Shah’s ideology, one must start at the beginning of the story. No other poet started their version of Heer Ranjha with a dispute over land before Waris Shah." The second ...

LAHORE, July 25: The 206th Urs of renowned Punjabi poet Waris Shah concluded on Sunday at Jandiala Sher Khan, some 40km away from the city. The well-attended three-day festivities, which the ...

is best remembered for her poem “Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu,” which lamented the traumatic partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. Widely considered to be the Punjabi poet of the 20th-century ...

and Punjabi poet Amrita Pritam’s ‘Ajj Akhan Waris Shah Nu’ (Ode to Waris Shah) are well known. Sarita Jenamani, an Indian poet writing in English and Odiya, and Aftab Husain, an eminent Urdu ...

she invoked Waris Shah (1722-1799), a poet who continues to be a representative of the region’s composite culture and the protagonist of his classic romance saga, Heer, named after a young ...

The three-day annual Urs celebrations of renowned Punjabi Sufi poet and author of Punjabi folk tale 'Heer Ranjha' Syed Waris Shah, began in Jandiala Sher Khan near Sheikhupura on Monday. On the ...

I began with Mahboob-e-Ilahi, followed by Chirag-e-Dilli, Waris Shah and ... Bulleh Shah is the fifth in the series,” says Manjari, who found this poet and thinker incredibly inspiring.