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viewing amrita pritam, modern hindi-urdu poet, from here…

To Waris Shah

January 21, 2020

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

January 20, 2018

I have many contemporaries – only I am not my contemporary –   I was born one day – a …

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Kashmir*

December 31, 2017

Once upon time, the pulse in Kashmir’s body sang ‘One Lalla, one Allah’. Now vaids are tired of trying… now …

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Earth words*

December 28, 2017

Dipping its pen into the inkpots of night and day the earth has written a letter to men.   “Scientists, …

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Detached*

December 27, 2017

And for ages, this has gone on….   Time had the power to wantonly bribe History’s losers, and steal its …

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Conspiracy of Silence

December 16, 2017

Darkness steals into a dream. Night stakes out a soft heart. More dangerous than any other is the theft of …

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When the ice will melt

December 16, 2017

A long time ago I had read about the opera, The Greek Passion.* I remember the part when a shepherd …

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City bodies

December 5, 2017

1 The golden harvest of stars has been stolen  – I shook out sheets of clouds only a grey night …

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A town – one day

December 2, 2017

It’s been a while since the rain stopped.   A moment ago the town fell in the muck.   Raising …

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The memoir

November 20, 2017

From reality to reality

November 18, 2017

A memoir is often seen as a single-dimensional ‘truth’ about a writer, the writer’s self-expression or confession. A memoir, in …

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Reinterpreting Amrita Pritam

November 14, 2012

Amrita Pritam wrote Pinjar, an Urdu novel on which a successful Hindi film of the same name has been made. Her …

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