41 min
Pain , prose & poetry - With Dr. Azra Raza - Episode 122 dhaani
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- Health & Fitness
Our guest on "dhaani" is Dr. Azra Raza - Describing her groundbreaking ideas in the highly acclaimed bestselling book, THE FIRST CELL: And the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last, She is bent upon shifting the treatment focus from trying to kill every last cancer cell to find the first and preventing cancer from developing altogether.
Dr. Azra established cash awards at her alma-mater FG College, Islamabad, 20 years ago for the topmost students in Science, Urdu and Humanities.
Dr. Azra started Urdu Mehfil in 1987 carefully reading Divan e Ghalib with the help of eleven sharahs over twenty years, and hosting writers, musicians, poets, politicians, and artists at home. The owner of ~10,000 books in Urdu and English, she co-authored GHALIB: Epistemologies of Elegance with Sara Suleri Goodyear. She jogs 3-5 km every day committing thousands of poetry verses to memory while running.
In this podcast we talk about :
- Grief
- Urdu Language & Pakistani dramas
- The Story of Shireen & Farhad
- Goal & Purpose
- Poetry by Ghalib, Mir Taqi Mir & Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Our guest on "dhaani" is Dr. Azra Raza - Describing her groundbreaking ideas in the highly acclaimed bestselling book, THE FIRST CELL: And the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last, She is bent upon shifting the treatment focus from trying to kill every last cancer cell to find the first and preventing cancer from developing altogether.
Dr. Azra established cash awards at her alma-mater FG College, Islamabad, 20 years ago for the topmost students in Science, Urdu and Humanities.
Dr. Azra started Urdu Mehfil in 1987 carefully reading Divan e Ghalib with the help of eleven sharahs over twenty years, and hosting writers, musicians, poets, politicians, and artists at home. The owner of ~10,000 books in Urdu and English, she co-authored GHALIB: Epistemologies of Elegance with Sara Suleri Goodyear. She jogs 3-5 km every day committing thousands of poetry verses to memory while running.
In this podcast we talk about :
- Grief
- Urdu Language & Pakistani dramas
- The Story of Shireen & Farhad
- Goal & Purpose
- Poetry by Ghalib, Mir Taqi Mir & Faiz Ahmed Faiz
41 min