A rare Jaun Elia's talk (on Urdu and Shia rituals)

Jaun Elia remained a very volatile and controversial figure in Pakistan's modern literary history due to his unconventional thoughts, poetry and courage to speak loudly his thoughts.

Following is a very rare - albeit controversial talk - on Urdu and some rituals of Shia sect (He himself belong to a very reputed literary Shia family). Speech contains urdu curse words (C****, BC etc.) It tells us how Shia and Sunni sects lived peacefully in India just in recent past!

Personally, I met him twice. First, when I went to a small library/literary center in Garden east, Karachi looking for a book on Hasan bin Sabah. He helped me out and I didn't know this is Joan Elia. He worked there as a scholar. Second time, I saw him in a mushaira in Karachi. He was literally and physically thrown out of National stadium when he start talking against MQM!

Note: His full name was Jaun Asghar Elia. Why he was named Jaun by his father and what it means, I don't know. But Elia was his faher's tkhallus and he adopted same.

Enjoy:    http://www.kidvai.com/windmills/Media/JoT.mp3