Abstract
While passing through the discourse of the me, we come across few
female poets in Brish period. Among those few one prominent poetess was
Ghulam Fama Lal. She was a well-known lady of her me and was considered a saint. Lal was born in 1860 A.D at a small village named
“Ka*a” (District ‘Panoaqil’). She was the daughte r of a poor shoemaker
named Lal Faqir, a mochi by cast. She was beauful, married to a man named
Hamid Faqeer and became widowed at a very young age. She lived with her
son named Gulfaqeer a3e r the death of her husband. She spent her whole life
in misery and pain.
In memory of her husband and while grieving his death, she started
singing songs of solitude and poured her grief and pain in her poetry. She used
her virgin name “Lal” in her poetry, which she owed from her father. Her poetry was full of grief and pain. She decorated he r Kafi’s (a famous form of Sindhi
poetry, which is purely related to music and is a lyrical form of poetry) with
enormous pain, and lamented he r husband’s death. She sang dardeli kafis, of
her loneliness a3er he r husband. She wrote many poems for he r murshid,
Noor Muhammad Larik, of whom she was a disciple”. She also wrote poetry in
memory of her preceptor. She departed from this world in 1925 A.D
Ghualm Fatima Babar. (2017) مائي غلام فاطمہ' لال', Kalachi, Volume 20, Issue 2 .
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