Sreeka; An Extinct Genre of Jaras Magazine

Gul Wazir

Gul Wazir GDC Kohi Sher Haider Bara

Keywords: Tappa, Sreeka, Takoreeza, Tapaeeza

Abstract

Sreeka is one of the extinct genre of Pashto poetry that was based upon Tappa. This genre started with the second number of quaterly Jaras.The motive behind this was initiation of some adopted genres like Haiko and Waka in Pashto poetic arena. Tahir Afridi, editor of Jaras wanted to have a genre that seems the genre of Pashto. Thus, this new genre was named ”Sreeka”. Some Sreekay (singular Sreeka) were published in quaterly Jaras but many opposed this new genre. Hence the trial based journey of Sreeka stopped and did not gain popularity.

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