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Dear Sohail;
This sounds like a wonderful idea. Infact
my mother and I had discussed something along the lines of a biography a
few months ago. She has written a series of 6 articles published in Lahore,
some of which relate to her relationship with him etc. I think we could use
some material from that. I know that my father has an outline of 'personal
anecdotes' about Faiz that he had planned to put
into book form at some point and he is currently working on putting
together a series of interviews that Faiz gave to
Pakistan television about culture and arts in the 1970s into book form.
Now that Faiz Ghar is
up and running, projects like this can be initiated and moved forward
quicker than otherwise.
As I mentioned, the main barrier for me would have been
a lack of time and energy if I had to pursue a project like this on my own
but with a collaborator as enthusiastic and energetic as you, we can move
it along quickly.
I am just as liable as anyone else to 'give up the
present for the future' i.e. think, dream and plan for things that I will
do sometime in the indeterminate future when I have 'more time, more energy
etc etc'. However, I have been studying Buddhism recently and am very
impressed by its emphasis on being 'in the moment'. I think there is a
profound truth to the notion that there is no past, no future, there is
only the 'eternally unfolding present moment'. If we lose sight of that,
everything else falls away too and we then get caught up in our worries,
fears, hopes etc etc.
Faiz talks about this numerous
times:
Fikr-e-fardaa utaar day dil say
Umre raftaa
pay ashkbaar naa ho
I will try and get a hold of those essays that my mother
did and send them to you. I would very much like to be a part of this
project on behalf of my family and Faiz Ghar. We shall discuss it further and make it happen.
Ali
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