AAW #81

Every week we bring you curated list of events that one should jot down in their weekly bucket list but did you ever imagine that within just Ahmedabad city there are on an average more than 100 gatherings/events/gigs getting celebrated every week. Astonishing isn’t it?! To make it easier the Ahmedabad Art Weekly has come up with its 81st edition while filtering the best of the events out of the rest. Like a bursting cloud, the creative minds of the city have showered with events from music, art, literature, stand-up comedy, music, social work, architecture, theater, and handicraft genres.

The person to whom the 81st Ahmedabad Art Weekly is dedicated is someone whose presence in Gujarati literature was moreover like a boon for the mankind. The Surat born poet, gazalkar, philosopher and radical thinker Abbas Abdulali Vasi alias Mareez. The Ghalib of Gujarat, who left his studies in the 2nd grade initiated his career while working in a shoe factory and later adopted journalism as his main profession. His writing couldn’t really get him a fortune and unfortunately, he lived in a literal financial crunch until his last breath. Profound in Urdu and a literal poetry lover Mareez’s Nazm and Gazals are still read by thousands of literature enthusiasts through his books Disha, Samagra Mareez, Nakshaa, Miskin, Akidat, Mazloom-e-karbala, Hurr. One may find all about Mareez (which literally meant patient) in his biography Mareez, Astitva Ane Vyaktitva.

Illustration : Ketul Gamit