A tribute to Dr Anis Nagi By Kazy Javed
Alibrary could be the only befitting place for a writer, who published more books than the number of years nature had given him to live, to breathe his last. But Dr Anis Nagi's death past week at the Punjab Public Library in Lahore did not lessen the shock of his departure to his friends and admirers. He apparently looked all right at 71. He came to my office three days before his death. During a chit-chat over a cup of tea, he told me that he was spending hours daily at the Punjab Library to collect material for his next book. Of late, he had developed a longing for writing on the Sufi poets of the Punjab. Bulleh Shah was the title of his first book on this topic, which has now become the last of the 70plus volumes that he brought out during his lifespan.
Anis Nagi started his literary career in the middle of 60s as a poet. His modern sensibility militated against composing ghazal. He always kept believing that this popular genre had exhausted all its possibilities. "You cannot write a new ghazal," he would say "you only repeat what has already been worn out."
He kept 'poeticising' till his last days and published almost a dozen collections of verse, but he is primarily known as a literary critic and fictionist.http://jang.com.pk/thenews/oct2010-weekly/nos-17-10-2010/lit.htm#3
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