“We have become orphans,” cried Bakshan Mehranvi, a poet and Dars’s childhood friend. His friends and fans were as upset as his family on hearing the news of his death. Village Mashaikh Hothi is near the resting place of Shah Bhittaiĭars Hassan’s boundary confined between the two places Greatest is thy name who created the world Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at the poet’s burial, noted Taj Joyo. The mainspring subject of his affection was his native village of Mashaikh Hothi, 70 kilometres north of Hyderabad in Tando Allahyar district, where he was laid to rest. Recently, he became involved with a non-profit organisation called the Indus Foundation.įrom a desert inhabited by Thari folks to fisherman that live along the Indus Delta, Dars’s works provided his readers insight to the diversity of Sindhi culture. In 1985, he joined as an editor of the Sindhi daily newspaper, ‘Sawal’, for five years. His fans called him “the best poet after Shaikh Ayaz”.ĭars also made regular appearances on Sindhi television channels and did radio programmes. He was an expert with metaphors and his genre was mostly romantic poetry, so much so that he was regarded as ‘the poet of young hearts’ by the late Shaikh Ayaz, a 20th century Sindhi poet.

His poems appeared, however, in newspapers and magazines or were heard by fans over the television and radio. The prolific poet composed thousands of poems but they were never published in book form. Although his relatives did not allow an autopsy, doctors believe that Dars died of a cardiac arrest due to the impact of the crash. Hassan Dars, an innovative poet responsible for a new diction in Sindhi poetry by fusing traditional and modern styles, passed away on Thursday at the age of 45.Īround 3 am, Dars’s car crashed against a footpath near Hosh Muhammad Flyover in Qasimabad.

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