Poetry
August 18, 2009
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 […]
August 24, 2015
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 […]
November 18, 2015
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 […]
June 10, 2016
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 […]
June 11, 2016
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’ […]
June 16, 2016
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, […]
November 4, 2016
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 […]
May 14, 2017
(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 […]