Marsiya - Part - 01 - Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari

Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari ذوالفقار علی بخاری Born 1904 Peshawar, British India Died July 12, 1975 Karachi, Pakistan Nationality Pakistani Field Radio Broadcasting Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari (Urdu: ذوالفقار علی بخاری) was a distinguished Urdu broadcaster and first director-general of Radio Pakistan.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personality 4 Literary work 5 Death 6 References 7 External links [edit] Early life Born into a family of peer (saints or spiritual guides) in 1904 in Peshawar, British India, Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari, or Z. A. Bukhari as he was popularly known, came to Lahore after passing his matriculation exam. His elder brother Patras Bokhari, one of Urdu’s finest humorists, lived there. At Lahore, the younger Bukhari took admission into Oriental College and completed his Munshi Fazil, the highest degree at that time in the oriental branch of knowledge. [edit] Career Z.A. Bukhari in his autobiography Sarguzasht writes: “As I came out of a tea house in Peshawar, I ran into my friend Qazi. Reading a clipping from Lahore’s newspaper Tribune again and again, he was smiling. On being asked, he told me that an advertiser had invited applications, care of a post box, for someone who knew English, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Pushto and Punjabi. The mere thought that how anybody could know that many languages was making him smile. And I thought "well, I at least know a little of all of them". I stormed into a typist’s shop, typed an application and mailed it mentioning the names of Mirza Mohammad Saeed Dehlvi and Dr Mohammad Iqbal as references.” The ad. was from Shimla’s Board of Examiners (an institution established in British India to teach vernaculars to the British officers) and Bukhari was selected for the post. It was back in 1925 and he was 21. He became a Munshi (or a teacher) and was ultimately promoted as the head of the bureau of translation. Besides his profession, Z.A. Bukhari also took part in other theatrical activities. One of Bukhari’s British students at Shimla was later posted as Assistant District Commissioner to the then governor of Punjab. And when the government decided to run the radio in a professional manner and from London sent Lionel Fieldon – a maverick war veteran – to set up a full-fledged broadcasting station in 1935, that student of Bukhari’s recommended and introduced him to Fieldon. Bukhari was then appointed at the newly established All India Radio (AIR) Delhi station as programme director. In 1939, Bukhari, as a station director of AIR Delhi, got transferred to Bombay.[2] After the Independence of Pakistan, he was made Radio Pakistan’s first director-general. Later on he served as Pakistan Television’s general manager. [edit] Personality Bukhari was a workaholic. With his indefatigable energies and love for broadcasting he worked at the radio station till late into the night. Nasrullah Khan in his book Kya Qafal Jata Hai has described how Bukhari would sit with singers, guide them, compose new tunes and would even sing with them. At radio he introduced many innovative ideas. He would write many programmes and broadcast them, too. A hard taskmaster and a man who had been immersed in culture and literature, Bukhari did not tolerate slights in broadcasting and especially emphasized the correct Urdu pronunciation. Some experts were especially hired by him to check and correct the pronunciation of artistes. During Bukhari’s tenure, the radio station was a place frequented by intellectuals, writers, musicians, poets and scholars. He turned Radio Pakistan into an institution where raw hands got their early training and went ahead in search of greener pastures. A great many of them became celebrities in their respective fields. [edit] Literary work Mirza Zafar-ul-Hasan, Bukhari’s friend and colleague at Radio Pakistan and a writer in his own right, published a special issue of Ghalib, a quarterly published by Idara-i-Yadgar-i-Ghalib, on Bukhari posthumously. He also compiled Yad-i-Yar-i-Mehrban, a book on Bukhari. Both the publications contain Bukhari’s satire columns and some transcriptions of his broadcasts, including the rare ones broadcast by him in Urdu from the BBC during his stay in London. Bukhari’s other books include Sarguzasht, an autobiography, Jo Kuchh Main Ne Kaha, a collection of his verses and Raag Darya, a book on music. [edit] Death Z.A. Bukhari died in Karachi on July 12, 1975. You entered: 12 / 7 / 1975 The conversion result is: Saturday 2 Rajab 1395 A.H. *There is a small probability of one day error. [edit] References 1.^ http://www.dawn.com/2008/07/08/fea.htm 2.^ http://batish.com/sd/lifesketch.html [edit] External links http://www.dawnnews.net/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/in-paper-magazine/books-and-authors/controlled-democracy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cJ4fr9BwWQ