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Parveen shakir ghazals1/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Image by anoldent on Flickr, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Sadly, she passed away unexpectedly while driving to work in 1994 in Islamabad the street on which she died has since been named after her. Her printed words insist on the rich personhood of women and others who find themselves marginalized from society. ![]() Although seemingly trivial, her inclusion of the word “लड़की/larkee” (girl) in many of her poems and her use of the feminine, first-person pronoun were revolutionary at the time, as these words insisted on the importance of the female perspective in a poetic universe that made little mention of such phenomena, preferring to designate the “aashiq” (आशिक़ or lover) and “maashuq” (माशूक़ or beloved) as male or gender-less. Image by Chris Sorge on Flickr, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0Ī highly educated woman with two Master’s degrees in English Literature and Linguistics, she is remembered for her subtle, meticulous verse and, perhaps most importantly, her contribution of the female voice and experience to a literary world almost exclusively inhabited by male writers and dominated by male experience. ![]()
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