Hasan Mujtaba
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Hasan Mujtaba is a Pakistani poet and journalist living in America in exile since 1999, as his work on the persecution of Hindus in Sindh earned him the wrath of his country’s government. His poetry collection Koel Sheher Ki Katha has been recently released, with a foreword by journalist and novelist Mohammad Hanif. Born in the Sindh–Punjab bordering town of Obauro, Mujtaba has never confined himself to the domain of a single language. Before joining Newsline in the 1990s under the late Razia Bhatti, he had already proved himself as a leading Sindhi poet and journalist. He describes himself as “an anti-military establishment journalist, poet and writer, and was also a nonconformist Sindhi, and openly bisexual in today’s Islamic Republic of Pakistan”. “Koel Shahar Ki Katha” ( A tale of cuckoo’s city) is a collection of Urdu and some Punjabi poetry consisting of poems he wrote during his years of exile in New York. It has been published by Saanjh Publishers, Lahore with a foreword by the novelist Mohammed Hanif.
The Sunflower Collective Interviews Hasan Mujtaba
Hasan Mujtaba is a Pakistani poet and journalist living in America in exile, as his work on the persecution of Hindus in Sindh earned him the wrath of his country’s government. His poetry collection Koel Sheher Ki Katha has been recently released, with a foreword by journalist and novelist Mohammad Hanif.  امرتا پریتم دے گھر ویچے جان تے اک نظموارث شاھ ایتھے کیہہ کیہہ وکدا وکدا وچ بزار۔ قبراں وکدیاں قبراں وچوں بول وی وکدے ’تم کتنے بھٹو ماروگے |
