Category : Literature
Lajwanti by Rajinder Singh Bedi: A relevant tale to this day
Partition is a major event in the history of the Sub-Continent. It has generated a huge body of literature, ranging from poems, novels, short stories...
Women’s prize for fiction goes to Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi
Susanna Clarke has been crowned the winner of Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021. 17 years ago she debuted with her novel “Johnathan Strange and Mr....
“Like Sugar in Milk”: Resistance and Preservation in Parsi Literature
In an article for The News, Arshad Yousafzai quotes, “Dr Minwalla said that in the next two decades there will be no Parsi anywhere in...
AN INTERVIEW WITH MYSELF(Preface to my book THE MEMORY SHARDS)
Who will ever think of interviewing someone who has been interviewed by others scores of times? Reflecting on this tragicomedy of a man – no...
Lost Voices: A Throwback to Zehra Nigah’s Poetry
In the introduction of the book We Sinful Women, Zehra Nigah is described as one of the poets who are more “traditional” in their “form...
“MAMA’S BOY” by Kamran Awan
He never liked seeing off people. He always avoided going to the railway stations, the airports and the bus terminals. Strangely enough, these places induced...
Buddha in shackles: Satyapal Anand
In the Buddha Temple, I prayed Lit two candles — one male body shape The other, a female figurine A Yang-Yin combination it was. Two smoke silhouettes...
PAIN, AN ENGRAVER: Satyapal Anand
Pain, the engraving artist With his piercing pen etches on its body The feeling of pain Chiseled in, shapeless words appear all over Spreading out,...
Lord Krishna – The Charioteer: Satyapal Anand
Slack fingers Holding the reins of his horses A charioteer Stands immobile in the driver’s seat. He seems to have lost his way A dust-covered...
The Rope Walker
The Circus-of-my-life series-1. A ROPE, STURDY, STRONG, AND TIGHT TIED TO TWO STREEL POLES, A LIFETIME ACROSS The narrowest bridge – One, that the Islamic...
When I am Seventy: Satyapal Anand
(Written originally in Urdu when I was forty years old. Now I am ninety) I’m not afraid of what I would say Not at all...
A Sneak Preview of One Hundred Buddhas Once In A Lifetime Poetry Book
No one has contributed more to the amazing life and teachings of Gautama Buddha than Satyapal Anand who comes to the realm of English poetry...
Shanakht: Identity of a Poet
Laugh in derision, my readers, but there’s much more than a grain of truth in this comment. What about other arts - music, for example?...
Crime and Punishment
(Originally written in Urdu) Once on every moonlit night He visited me – the angel . the reckoning auditor of all my deeds From him,...
The Path & I
When I stop, the path raises itself a bit Looks at me and says: “Why did you stop? To get rid of me? You know,...
The woman with a shaved head (An abridged draft)
AN ABRIDGED ENGLISH VERSION (See French and Spanish versions also.) “Schmoozing with a head is no-nonsense matter,” She said, and I kept quiet for I...
A Crazy Jane-Jamalo Poem
Yates wrote a series presenting Crazy Jane as a Wise dame. I present Crazy Jamalo as a deranged dame....
LUCKNOW; THE LAST PHASE OF AN ORIENTAL CULTURE
During my conversation with Fakhir Hussain, I was told that Sharar had presupposed his readers to be from India not only with a fair knowledge...
The City of The Blind
Not a soul here To see a lovely phenomenon Like a bud breaking into a blooming smile A baby’s cheek, a flower petal Bedecking itself...
Waiting for the morn
In the last two decades, I have trans-created over 300 of my Urdu poems in the medium of English. ("Translation" would be an incorrect word...
