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Tributes
January 24, 2010Ode to a colossus — Professor Khwaja Masud
February 8, 2010By Air Commodore (r) Sayed Sajad Haider
(The News January 21, 2010)
After Quaid-i-Azam’s demise, only a few men in Pakistan’s 62-year history have provided intellectual and moral enlightenment to young and old, as did the gaunt, but intellectually an invincible icon, Professor Khwaja Masud. Read the rest of this entry »
On heeding Prof. Khwaja Masud’s advice
February 7, 2010Poem by Ejaz Rahim, July 2007
On being advised to pray
At the spot
Where Hazrat Abu Zar Ghaffari
Used to meditate
Inside the Prophet’s mosque
I sould-searched my life
To judge if I deserved
Such an honour to desire. Read the rest of this entry »
Birthday Poem for Prof Khwaja Masud
February 7, 2010by Ejaz Rahim, August 2007
Your mind at eighty-five
Must be Einsteinian in strength
And Shakespearean in suppleness
Shaped equally
By quadratics and poetry
Combining mathematical abstractions
With life’s efflorescence. Read the rest of this entry »
Prof. Khwaja Masud: A Tribute and Obituary
February 7, 2010by Ikram Azam, Jan 21, 2010
While the Gordon College, Rawalpindi*
Which was once among
The proud pinnacled pioneers of education
In South Asia
Has waxed and waned
In its long history of over a hundred years
You, Prof. Khwaja Masud
Have remained a steady stream of role mode principled
Life, light and learning Read the rest of this entry »
On Prof Khwaja Masud’s Eighty Fifth Birthday
February 7, 2010by Ikram Azam, August 11, 2007
Sir!
We, the successive generations
Of your students
Salam and Salute you from the core of our beings
For making our lives
With your moral role model example
Thus you are a living legend
In your own blessed life-span Read the rest of this entry »
Khwaja Masud — A Teacher Par Excellence
February 7, 2010By Ashfaq Saleem Mirza (Celebrating Prof Khwaja Masud’s 85th birthday) (Dawn August 11, 2007)
Intellectuals, academics, scholars and students are celebrating the 85th birth anniversary of Prof Khwaja Masud, a teacher par excellence, today. Read the rest of this entry »
Death of a Mentor
February 7, 2010By Prof Khalid Mehmud (Pulse January 29, 2010)
Prof. Khwaja Masud was a living legend. He did not inherit a famous surname, nor did he occupy a position of authority or privilege, but he commanded respect and admiration of a crowd of loyalists who called him his Guru. Read the rest of this entry »
Khwaja Masud — Untiring Teacher of Change
February 7, 2010By Mushir Anwar (Dawn Monday, 18 Jan, 2010 )
Time, that he had in good measure and which he made rich with never being idle, was what he said our people as a nation had wasted with reckless abandon. And don’t think we will go unpunished for that, he assured me. He was in quite a rage sizzling in the intense stare he focused at me. You see, he said, you catch the corrupt who steal your money but you spare the leaders who have robbed the nation of its time. You can get back the stolen money, but not the hours and years you have been robbed of. Read the rest of this entry »
Harris Khalique Remembers
February 7, 2010By Harris Khalique (The News January 22, 2010)
(The writer is a poet and advises national and international institutions on governance and public policy issues. Email: harris @spopk.org)
The dodgy lift that saves me from climbing up and down the stairs in the block of flats I live in right now somehow defines my unbreakable bond with Pakistan. The lift has a soul. It is cranky, shakes the passengers enough to scare the fainthearted and sometimes just stops at its will without a reason, technical or otherwise. Read the rest of this entry »
A Progressive by Choice
February 7, 2010By Aamir Riaz (Lahore-based editor and researcher Newline2100@yahoo.co.uk) (The News on Sunday)
Prof Khwaja Masud, who died on January 16, 2010, was among the last Punjabi progressive thinkers of his era. Read the rest of this entry »
