We as a nation have become conservative to point of insanity, Mustansar Hussain Tarar

Famous Urdu novelist and travel writer Mustansar Hussain Tarar has said that we as a nation have become conservative to point of insanity. Hollow slogans of “Malik Taqiyamat Rahega” have been left behind.

He said that religion and language change in a period of 50 years, 50 years ago it was not a religion, suddenly God Hafiz changed to Allah Hafiz.

Mustanasir Hussain Tarde said during a meeting held at the Alhamra Arts Council that a few days ago Javed Akhtar was sitting on the seat of the Alhamra Art Council and he felt ashamed.

He said that he was disturbed by what Javed Akhtar said from the stage, but he did not consider them important. There is no place. When I was asked to comment on Javed Akhtar’s statement, I told Voice of America that I don’t consider them important enough to respond to them.”

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Mustansar Hussain Tarar said that every year when the Nobel Prize for Literature is announced, he reads some work of the winner to decide for himself. He said, “Six or seven out of 10 Nobel Prize winners are beyond my understanding.” One is just like me and I’m better than at least two or three. For a Nobel Prize you need a system and a group and they are like ours where recommendations and references also work”.

“This is off the record,” he added. I was nominated for a Nobel Prize but I know I won’t get it. For the Nobel Prize they also see how much you are against your society and I can’t do that”.

However, Mustansar himself pointed out that Pakistani society has become so radicalized that a writer can be flogged for his writing. He said, “Pakistan was once the golden and beautiful country of the world.” There was a time when the government reacted to the writings and I was banned for one and a half years from PTV, which was my only profession, but people appreciated us, now times have changed, the rulers don’t care. It doesn’t matter what you write against them but the society has become so conservative that it engulfs the writer.
Which is far more dangerous.”

Narrating an incident, Mustansar said that there were sketches of Sadeqin in his book ‘Nakele Teri Taha Mein’ but a few years ago the publisher said that the sketches cannot be published anymore. “I told him that the sketches were published for 40 years. have been. “Things have changed,” he replied.

Expressing further concern about the situation, Mustansar Hussain Tarr said, “We as a nation have become conservative to the point of insanity, a creative writer has to resort to manipulation to save himself”.

He rejected the notion that great literature is born from oppressed societies. He said, “Whether we like it or not, the fact is that we have lost our respect in the international community.” Now only the hollow slogans of Pakistan Zindabad and it will be alive till the end of the day are left, it doesn’t happen like this. I don’t want to be killed at this age.”

He said that in a period of 50 years everything changes including language and religion, 50 years ago it was not a religion. “Suddenly God Hafiz changed to Allah Hafiz”.

He said, “None of my novels is devoid of the mention of water.” Bhau’ is the story of the drying up of the Saraswati River and I wrote it when nobody had heard of climate change. Ravi has dried up and the water of the Indus River is not suitable for human consumption.

Mustansar Hussain Tarar said that “it is the responsibility of the writer to predict what is going to happen even if there is a fear that the society may lash out at him”.

When asked about creating a new language for Bhau, he said that they needed to create an alphabetic language and that Brahvi and Tamil have the most Dravidian words than any other language.

He said that “I did my PhD thesis from Barclay University on ancient Tamil poetry and I got some words from him, some others I got from Ali Abbas Jalalpuri, besides those Punjabi words, whose origin is Dravidian”. He said that creative writers have created their own grammar.

Asked how he created female characters so well, he said that all great male writers had women inside them, while great women writers like Quratul Ain Haider and Bano Qudsia had strong men inside them. .

Asked why writers write, Mustansar Hussain Tarar said that people with creative aspirations, whether they were architects, dancers or fiction writers, wanted to create something like the Creator and be close to Him.

He said that there was no writer in his family and in his early years he just wanted to hang out and read. “If I wasn’t a writer I would be a reader, I’m not a planned writer,” he says.

Recalling the beginning of his writing, he said, “In 1958, there was a youth festival in the Soviet Union. I was there in England and I became part of the British delegation to attend the Youth Festival. When I went back, Majeed Nizami asked me to write about the experience which was published in Qandeel”.

I had some experiences in 1968 which I shared in Safarname Nikle Teri Tayla Mein and Sangmail. A deluxe edition was released to mark the 52nd anniversary of the book’s publication. The author also spoke about death and about the heart attack he had recently suffered, which led to his death. A pacemaker is implanted.