To Waris Shah
Waris Shah! I implore you today speak, speak from your grave… and in your book of love write a new …
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Me and I
I have many contemporaries – only I am not my contemporary – I was born one day – a …
Kashmir*
Once upon time, the pulse in Kashmir’s body sang ‘One Lalla, one Allah’. Now vaids are tired of trying… now …
Earth words*
Dipping its pen into the inkpots of night and day the earth has written a letter to men. “Scientists, …
Detached*
And for ages, this has gone on…. Time had the power to wantonly bribe History’s losers, and steal its …
Conspiracy of Silence
Darkness steals into a dream. Night stakes out a soft heart. More dangerous than any other is the theft of …
When the ice will melt
A long time ago I had read about the opera, The Greek Passion.* I remember the part when a shepherd …
City bodies
1 The golden harvest of stars has been stolen – I shook out sheets of clouds only a grey night …
A town – one day
It’s been a while since the rain stopped. A moment ago the town fell in the muck. Raising …
The memoir
From reality to reality
A memoir is often seen as a single-dimensional ‘truth’ about a writer, the writer’s self-expression or confession. A memoir, in …
Reinterpreting Amrita Pritam
Amrita Pritam wrote Pinjar, an Urdu novel on which a successful Hindi film of the same name has been made. Her …
Laughing Penguins 