(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 ते की गुज़री What your mother went through दूध सिराणै रख के रोई Did she cry by the glass of milk या राह ते ओ गुज़री Or she […]
Poem माँ ते की गुज़री (What mother went through) Read More »
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 ambala and their white stained roads and barium makes its way through my small intestine into the large one as I remember how my stomach
Poem – My Stomach is very upset with me (How does one care for the hungry?) Read More »
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 हैं (it’s hot you sit in it’s shade) फल आँसू की तरह टपक रहे हैं (fruits are falling like tears) आप लकड़ी के चाव
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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 की गुज़री What your mother went through दूध सिराणै रख के रोई Did she cry by the glass of milk या राह ते ओ गुज़री
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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 has moved on. How things change and we fail to take note of it. How edifices erode and wither away with no one to care
Ocean did you see the fish fly? Read More »
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 the cover page of “homo ludens” by Jose Huizinga. No poem can be interpreted without thinking about what may have been happening in the poet’s
Diwan e Ghalib – Bazeecha-e-Atfal (translation) Read More »
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 varka phol! ik roi si dhii punjab dii tuu likh-likh mare vain aj lakkhan dheeyan rondian tainuun waaris shah noon kahan Utth dard-mandaan dey dardiyaa
इक वार तां इश्कि-क़ौम नूं सद्द (give one chance to the community that loves) Read More »
