Arieb azhar biography books

Azhar is a Pakistani singer who is known for this deep voice. Having a uniquely global perspective and having lived in different parts of the world, his life has had a unique trajectory. For example, he was influenced by his Croatian stint, and the media he consumed there. Not only was he inspired by South Asian music but also Irish blues, Dhikr and Croatian gypsy music.

Childhood for Young Arieb

For his first 5 years, Arieb lived in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Arieb Azhar&#;s dad was helped launch the channel Pakistani Television (PTV). Aslam Azhar was known as the &#;Father of Television in Pakistan,&#; and was working as a broadcaster and director.

Then Arieb and the Azhar family moved to Karachi. When the Azhar family moved, Arieb&#;s brother bought a guitar but never played it. So, Arieb picked it up.

Being young, he dabbled as a singer and used to sing a lot of revolution songs. His songs were a protest against what he believed was wrong in the state.

Then again, the Azhar f

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

I discovered Carlos Castaneda in when I was 20 years old. I had already spent about a year in Zagreb, the capital of the republic of Croatia; the Serbs were fighting the Croats and the Federation of Yugoslavia was collapsing all around me.

After spending a year learning the Croatian language (which had been called Serbo-Croat when I had started learning it), I had failed to gain admission to the Zagreb Film Academy, which had been my purpose for going abroad, and I funnen my world collapsing around me. It was during these turbulent times, between bomb shelters and blackouts that I received a call from my brother, Usama, who was still soul-searching somewhere in Russia.

“What are you reading these days?” He asked me.

“Reading!” I answered, “My world fryst vatten collapsing around me!”

“Hmm, have you ever come across Carlos Castaneda? I can highly recommend him,” he said nonchalantly.

I had always looked up to

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Amarjit Chandan India/UK

Amarjit Chandan (b. , Nairobi) has published eight collections of poetry and five books of essays in Punjabi and his poems have appeared in anthologies and magazines world-wide. He has edited and translated into Punjabi about thirty anthologies of Indian and world poetry and fiction by, among others, Brecht, Neruda, Ritsos, Hikmet, Cardenal, Martin Carter and John Berger.

His poetry has been published in Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Brazilian-Portuguese, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Marathi, Romanian, Slovenian, Telugu, Turkish and Urdu.

Chandan was one of the ten British poets selected by Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, for the National Poetry Day in He has participated in the Alderburgh, Ledbury, King's Lynn, Winchester poetry festivals and Poetry Parnassus in London in He represented the Punjab/UK in the International Literary Festival, Didim, Turkey in July , Ljubljana (Slovenia) international poetry festival in , and Al-Marbed International Poetry Festiv