It took Jaun Elia’s death on 8 November 2002 for the world to fall in love with his poetry. Today, he is one of the most Googled poets, but still remains an enigmatic figure in modern Urdu poetry—a ...

Few poets are afforded the kind of iconic status conferred upon the late Jaun Elia. With themes of lost love and suffering so deeply threaded throughout his work, Jaun’s poetry has served as a balm on ...

An undeniable literary giant in the Urdu speaking world, Jaun Elia was a poet whose legacy precedes him. Whether you admire him for his provocative, existential utterances and fevered delivery style, ...

Jaun Elia, the boy from Amroha who kept a piece of the city in his heart forever, is known for his rebellious spirit and the intense emotions that can be felt in his poetry. His life was marked by a ...

KARACHI Jaun Elia admired John Keats. Reason the latter died of tuberculosis. Jaun found the disease awfully romantic and liberating. He liked expectorating blood, and penned a great many couplets on ...

What is the single greatest tragedy that we face as Southasians today? There may be many answers, but for the philosopher-poet Jaun Elia, the one crisis at the core of it all: Repression and internal ...

In one of his illustrations for Ramooz – the book-length long poem by Jaun Elia written between 1962 and 1974 – artist Danish Raza paints the poet as a prophetic figure. Elia is depicted holding a ...

In the realm of Urdu literature, few individuals inspire as much fascination, admiration, and defiance as Jaun Elia. Jaun was a poet of existential anxiety, an analyst of desperation, and an aesthetic ...

"My dear Mir Zafar Hasan, you’re one lucky person." "Why do you say that, Jaun sahib?" "You are an exceptionally good poet and at the same time you’re extremely fortunate. You are Mir, but you can be ...