What has prompted me to bother you is the fact that the Guinness's Book of World Records keeps and incorporates record of all un-precedented things and reports in its yearly book from throughout the world but perhaps it is lacking a book I am introducing to you as under:
We in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent have heard of a variety of Urdu poetry but so far none, at least myself, have ever heard of GHAIR MANKOOT Urdu and that too in poetry.
This difficult, if not impossible, job has been accomplished by one Syed Ishtiaq Hussain Shauq, who has written a book on Ghazaliat, named HALA-I- MALAL, published in 1988 and containing 143 pages in Urdu and having no NUKTA or DOT throughout, although Urdu language contains SEVENTEEN dotted letters out of its thirty five alphabets, like the small (i) and (j) in English language.Shauq is living a silent life and is an ordinary civil servant and he is not fond of pomp and show.
I am enclosing a copy of the book and request you to kindly report it in the next issue of your yearly book under intimation to the author to encourage him and so many other potential Shauqs in the Sub-Continent and rest of the world.
His address is as under:
Syed Ishtiaq Hussain Shauq, Civil Secretariat, Govt. of NWFP, Peshawar
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