In Main Kallā Nī Māe, remembrance without memory becomes poetry, where the absent mother forms a structure of address rather than a figure restored.
By Dr Aftab Husain

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When Poetry Remembers The Mother In speaking to the mother who is not there, the poet ultimately speaks to the world as it is

A life shaped by absence: Sabir Zafar’s Punjabi long poem turns maternal loss into an ethical lens through which love, memory, and history are re-imagined.
By Dr Aftab Husain

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