Title: ‘Arz-o samā’
Description: Memoirs of Syed Muzaffar Husain, a senior announcer, newsreader, feature & script writer of All India Radio (AIR), Delhi who after 1947 migrated to Pakistan and worked with Radio Pakistan and later Pakistan Television (PTV). Interesting anecdotes & account of incidents occurred and personalities encountered during Muzaffar’s 40-year broadcasting career (1942-1982). Inter alia the writer mentions the incidents of World War II, Independence of India & Pakistan etc.
Subjects: Memoirs, autobiography, broadcasting, All India Radio (AIR), Radio Pakistan
Places: Pre-partition India, major cities of India & Pakistan including Delhi, Simla, Bombay, Lahore, Peshawar, Karachi
People: Many famous personalities of India & Pakistan, associated with the fields of broadcasting, literature and film, including Lionel Fielden, Ahmad Shah Bukhari (PaTras), Z.A. Bukhari, Syed Ansar Nasri, Mukhtar Siddiqi, Sa’adat Hasan Manto, Mira Ji, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan (poet & film lyricist), Shakeel Badayuni, Nakhshab Jarchvi, Akhtar Shirani, Akhtar-ul-Iman, MuzTar Hashmi, Rafi’ Pirzada (playwritght, dramatist), Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi (writer & musicologist), Akhlaq Ahmad Dehlvi, Shaukat Thanvi, Syed Imtiyaz Ali Taj, MaHmood Nizami, Masood Tabish (newsreader, poet), MusTafa Ali Hamdani, Madan Mohan (Music composer), Rafiq Ghaznavi, Sajjad Sarwar Niyazi, Agha Talish (filmstar), NaaSir Khan (filmstar), Pt. Ravi Shankar, Ustad Bismillah Khansb., Roshan (music composer), vocalist Bhai Chhailaa Patyaalay waalay, Dulari Bai, Ustad Nazar Husain (music composer, vocalist & sarod virtuoso), Yunus Sethi, Ibn-e Insha, KhaTir Ghaznavi, Ahmad Faraz, MoHsin Ehsaan, SaHab Qizilbash, MusTafa Zaidi, Shaad Amritsari, Ayyub Romaani, Qavi Khan, Tariq Aziz, Aslam Azhar
Time periods: 1942-1982