Review on

Aadhi Neend
A Poetry Book by Dr Baram Ghouri

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On a chilling winter night, far away down the hills, the freezing water stream runs silently below
its surface along the pines, cedars and cypress and if someone there lit a fire on the way to stay
alive, then one feels, how soothing its warm influence flowing from the inside by reading the
ghazals and poems in Baram Ghouris poetry Book, Aadhi Neend. He crafts metaphors, he paints
images, and he draws symbolic feelings deep inside the human spirit.




His Ghazals are two way swords, filled with light and at the same time assonant echoes carrying a
torch for his vows and lost dreams throughout the verses. Yet they hold the strings of hopes in the
twilight to stave off the darkness and to cleave off the hatred through his words. Baram knows how
often human feelings starve in words to work, as he lived major part of his life in a caravan moving
on in Baluchistans terrain. A man who would choose to live like a nomadic life would write vibrant
poetry.


Much is at stake here Baram Ghouri looks profoundly at the galaxies and as being a keen crafter
narrates the joy and grief he feels into his words; enhance the rhythm of Odes he chooses to
portray. Thats what Baram does; he pours the love into the language. He tells us how to suppress
the grief and uphold the internal echoes of his soul.

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Renowned Urdu Critic Dr. Farooq Ahmad in the preface to the Aadhi Neend has categorically
described his Ghazals as part of the dawn emerging from the deep rooted labyrinth darkness with
aesthetic qualities of his inner feelings though Baram has not used it in compressed form yet
stunning words speak from his pen with the readers.

In addition to the forms of rhyme, alliteration and rhythm that structures much of his poetry is the
style of Baram that plays a more delicate role in his even free verses poetry in creating pleasure.
Baram refers to the musical, flowing quality of words arranged in an aesthetically pleasing way.

Baram Ghouri among his contemporaries walks in the corridors of Urdu literature a step ahead of
his period, as Dr. Muhammad Ali Siddiqui describes his poetry likely to be followed a long way ahead
of moments in hand.
A renowned Professor of Urdu and leading linguistic critic from Karachi University Prof. Sahar Ansari
recognises Barams poetic romanticism that emphasized inspiration of the primacy of the individual.
18th Century romanticism was a reaction against the order and restraint of classicism and
neoclassicism, and a rejection of the rationalism which characterized the enlightenment that is
perhaps conceded in Barams mind while he opts the difficult way.

I personally look forward for the incredible work Baram is doing and would be doing in the days
ahead. He still got the muscle to explore his poetry as said by Shelley The poets search for himself
provided he gets through out from his most complex research work he is engaged since last many
years.
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By Naeem Baig
28th December 2016
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