Yadeen Baqi Reh Jati Hain
Aitbar Sajid’s worth award winning poetry and memoir that keeps you in rhythmic,
moving, profound and sentimental delight all the way…
“To Aitbar Sajid, my friend, my benevolent, a tale of life and a legend.” When
I’d written these words on Tripping Soul (A novelette of mine) while presenting
it to him in the office of legendry artist Anees Yaqoob in Lahore, I even had no
idea about his latest book ‘Yadeen Baqi Reh Jati hain’. On the same day he
reciprocated me with his new book and once I’d opportunity on the same night to
go through this marvelous piece of Memoir. I recalled my words written on the
Tripping Soul. How honest were my remarks.
When the battles are fought and won and lost, one may tell you a tale that
dwells in someone’s soul and becomes like blood runs in the veins and moves to
drive one’s laughs and cries silently whispering in your ears. By demonstrating
his flair Aitbar achieved the great stature in his new book ‘Yadeen Baqi Reh
Jati Hain.’
An unmitigated analogy in Aitbar’s qualities and his works dragged me twenty
seven years back in our youth days in Baluchistan that we’d spent together. For
long five years we had collectively fought those wars against us amid our laughs
and cries. He’s candidly a born writer and poet of his era and he proved his
wits successfully bringing his work before us.
‘The great beauty of his poetry that it makes everything every place
interesting’ was said about John Keats and I wonder how correctly Aitbar’s work
can be seen in this perception. At that time, we had together in Nushki, he
might been in his mid twenties; and at that period of life he certainly
appreciated the general beauty of the composition, and felt the more passionate
passages; for his features and exclamations were ecstatic.... like a true poet,
and spelled a poet "born, not manufactured," a poet in grain. He especially
singled out descriptions, for that felicity and power in many of his poems as
eminent through whims of his own life as he unveiled in this book.
The work in ‘Yadeen Baqi Reh Jati hain’ is as brainy as one could conceive and
inspire. Especially the delineations of fascinating scrupulous images of his
different idols mirror his ingrained poetic talent. Above all his commitment
remains at its crest based on his unwary compassionate traditions to bear the
essence of literature. For true joyance of reading this book is recommended
anytime.
Naeem Baig
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Note. Reviewer is an Article Writer in Technobiz Magazine Lahore (An
international magazine in Science & Technology) and Novelist. His first novel
TRIPPING SOUL has been shelved in the market. Rest of his work can be viewed at
www.scribd.com