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Bulleya Ki Jaana Main Kaun!

Bulleh Shah

Bulleh Shah, whose real name was Abdullah Shah, was a Punjabi Muslim Sufi poet, a humanist and philosopher. Bulleh Shah practiced the Sufi tradition of Punjabi poetry established by poets like Shah Hussain (1538 – 1599), Sultan Bahu (1629 – 1691), and Shah Sharaf (1640 – 1724). The verse form Bulleh Shah primarily employed is […]

Some Serene Sayings of Marcel Proust!

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust was a French essayist, novelist and critic, better known for his phenomenal work in ‘A la recherché temps perdu’ (In Search of lost time), which was pseudo autobiographical in nature, narrated in a stream-of-conscious style. He is considered as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century by the English critics. […]