Poem माँ ते की गुज़री (What mother went through)
(this is about the soldiers, living away from his family – this is about you and me) तू की जाणे ओ वे चनया What do you know o’ son तेरी माँ …
Poetry
Poem – My Stomach is very upset with me (How does one care for the hungry?)
As I lay on the XRay table with a tube in my nose trickling chalklike barium into my guts my thoughts wandered and roamed through the chalk seller streets of …
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नो’ह की नाँव (Noah’s Ark)
नो’ह की नाँव (Noah’s Ark) १६ जून २०१६ (16 June 2016) आप पेड़ काटने आए हैं (you’ve come to cut the tree) तेज़ धूप है, उसिकी छांव में बैठे …
माँ ते की गुज़री What mother went through
Just wrote this today for my mother: माँ ते की गुज़री What mother went through तू की जाणे ओ वे चनया What do you know o’ son तेरी माँ ते …
Poetry – Faiz Ahmed Faiz – Gulo.n me.n rang bhare (Translation)
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) wrote this famous Ghazal, which was made legendary by Mehdi Hassan’s (1927-2012) soulful voice. I made this translation in light of my understanding of the poet’s …
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Ocean did you see the fish fly?
The oceans were very important at one time and those who could master it ruled the world. Today, the mastery has paled and the masters have no value, and life …
Diwan e Ghalib – Bazeecha-e-Atfal (translation)
My desire to bring the nuggets of the best Urdu Poetry to the world starts with this translation. The best picture to draw out the spirit of this poem was …
सच्ची इबादत – Sachhi Ibadat
इतनी सच्ची थी महवियत* उसकी मैंने पाया (engrossment) उसकी किताबों का निचोड़ मलहम के काम (में) आया itni sachhi thi mahwiyat* uski maine paaya uski kitabon ka nichod malham ke …
इक वार तां इश्कि-क़ौम नूं सद्द (give one chance to the community that loves)
18 August 2009. (Opening lines of Amrita Pritam’s famous poem on the tragedy of partition) aj aakhan waaris shah noo kiton qabran vichon bol! te aj kitab-e-ishq da koi agla …
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