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- Shahryar and Noor with the poets – Navtej Bharati and Ajmer Rode
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- Professor Satyapaul Gautam reads the citation in Punjabi
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- Z and I engaged in some khusar-phusar in the backdrop.
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- Shahryar and a poem…
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- Shahryar and Noor – long standing friends who have both since left us…
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- The MC
In a meeting with Professor Sutinder Singh Noor, the then Vice-President of the Sahitya Academy and with Dr. Madal Gopal Singh it was decided that Shahryar should be invited to confer the 3rd Anad Kav Sanman, which was to conferred to brothers, Navtej Bharati and Ajmer Rode for their book, Leela.
My telephonic conversations with Shahryar eventually became lively. At the award ceremony, Professor Noor asked Shahryar Saheb to recite his poems and he was wonderful.
I will fondly remember the kind words that he showered me with after my short concert during which I had sung a few poems (for the first time).
Shahryar had particularly enjoyed meeting Zarminae who had compered the event that evening. There are many images but I am sharing a few with Shahryar.
Akhlaq Mohammad Khan urf Shahryar passed away on Monday, February 13, 2012 after a brief bout with cancer. May Allah’s blessings always be with him…
The Anād Foundation 
I will never forget that meeting, and still have the poem that he recited that evening and that i asked him to write down on a piece of paper for me…. what a lovely man. RIP