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Articles with tag: poet

Saqi Farooqi ... A Rebellious Poet

Khalid Sohail   May 14, 2008   interacts: 21

He likes to be in the centre of controversy and to achieve that he challenges every literary, social, religious, moral and sexual taboo that he comes across.

Targeted Taxi Drivers

Lokhi Menon   Feb 5, 2008   interacts: 7

Day passes and night creeps up over the city,
Suddenly the TV chatters “taxi drivers targeted in Mumbai”

Ghazal from Allama Iqbal, translated by M. Shahid Alam

Mohammad Alam   Dec 14, 2007   interacts: 3

DigarguN hai jahaN taroN ki gardish tez hai Saqi

Two Poems of Parveen Shakir in Translation

Ravi Kopra   Oct 30, 2007

'Pink Flowers' and 'A Message'

A tribute: To Revathy Gopal

Lokhi Menon   Oct 13, 2007   interacts: 5

We talked just once on the phone
I, the hopeful poet,
you, established and acknowledged,
friendly, kind and encouraging.

Dillu Ram Kausari: The Hindu Poet who Loved The Prophet

Asif Naqshbandi   Sep 28, 2007   interacts: 209

One quatrain, in particular, shocked the entire community in India, both Muslims and Hindus.

Memsahib

Suraj Sharma   Sep 29, 2007

A Poem should always raise more questions than it answers.

Eternal Destiny

mohsin ahmed   Aug 4, 2007

you were an inspiration, a desire, a belief,
we have expectations and wishes, but sometimes disappointment is what we meet,

Meeting Poet Ahmad Faraz

Ras Siddiqui   Jul 9, 2007   interacts: 29

What do you say when you meet what many consider the greatest living poetic craftsman of the Urdu language today? When you meet Poet Ahmad Faraz, you can pretty much say whatever you want.

An Evening with Ustad Asad Amanat Ali Khan: A Tribute

Asif Naqshbandi   Apr 17, 2007   interacts: 31

I met Asad Amanat Ali Khan a few years ago; I didn't think I'd never meet him again.

Punjab: The Land of Five Rivers

Nadeem Alam   Jan 21, 2007   interacts: 78

Its waters have seen life being quenched since centuries. Its trees have embraced the wind that was fragrant by the immortal stories like Heer Ranjha, Sohni Mahiwal and Mirza Sahiban

Rain! Oh Beautiful Rain!

Clytan Fernando   Oct 24, 2006   interacts: 5

Now that I bedridden lay!
'Come n play' is what you say

Iqbal, Ghalib, Amir Khusraw: Three Masters, Three Poems

Asif Naqshbandi   Jul 12, 2006   interacts: 54

The Madness of Love by Allama Iqbal - Where I was Last Night by Amir Khusraw Dehlavi - Do Not Be Stingy With the Wine Today by Mirza Ghalib

Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi Passed Away

Chowk Staff   Jul 11, 2006   interacts: 25

The great Urdu poet and short story writer Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi passed away the morning of July 10, 2006, in a local hospital in Lahore.

'Dew from Truth’s Garden'

Asif Naqshbandi   Apr 18, 2006   interacts: 10

The following translation is of excerpts from a poem by the great scholar-Sufi saint from India, Imam Ahmad Riza Khan, eulogising the Prophet. In these verses he writes of the miraculous qualities of the various body parts of the Beloved Prophet

Hidden Desires

Ozer Khalid   Apr 8, 2006   interacts: 39

Oh, chaste wither away! And set her lust free--
held incarcerated, long ago a romance ceased to be
to whisper a hymn of infidelity

Tribute to Mother

Vidya Venkat   Mar 20, 2006   interacts: 6

From that corner of your heart where motherhood
Lay rooted and from those cracks that were formed
Due to suppressed desire burst a fount of fury

Magma

shobig sifar   Feb 7, 2006   interacts: 12

this lava
needs to be hauled out
but the crust is hard
the peak
severed by ego?



An Ode To Wine

Asif Naqshbandi   Nov 30, 2005   interacts: 14

The grapevines in Makka are grown
When fully ripened, to Madina are flown!

Shades of Grey

Z Rana   Oct 14, 2005   interacts: 34

There is something about Faiz that still evokes controversy long after his death. For some he was a great poet, for others a great teacher and a revolutionary ... the problem arises when people confuse Faiz the poet with Faiz the thinker and revolutionary

Freeze Frame

Rajeshwari Bhog   Oct 5, 2005   interacts: 15

I posted on poetrydotcom
And they told me I won a prize
That made me happy
So happy I went out and ordered a pizza


Hazrat Khansaa

zainab siddique   Jul 22, 2005   interacts: 41

Khansaa’s (R.A.) poetry has its own value and her poetical genius has always been acknowledged not only during her life time but even today, not only by the pre-Islamic Arab poets but also by people of all the times and places.

Unpoet

Temporal    Apr 14, 2005   interacts: 27

float and fall like flakes
one after another
in a suffocating embrace
to the ground
unloved and undead



The Easy Path to Publication is paved with Your Dollars

Hafsa Ahsan   Mar 30, 2005   interacts: 4

The phrase refers more specifically to the working of those organizations which claim to promote writers/poets and their work, yet in reality, their sole function is to extract money from them in the name of contests, services or anthologies.

Sometimes…

Asif Naqshbandi   Jan 10, 2005   interacts: 47

A translation of Sahir Ludhiyanvi’s Urdu poem, “Kabhi Kabhi”

Ecstasy

Asif Naqshbandi   Oct 8, 2004   interacts: 14

Affirmation of love whispered in hesitant tones
Two heart-beats echoing with one reverberation

Wannabe Haikus

Harish Nambiar   Sep 19, 2004   interacts: 10

Please oh please hurl
Bricks at institutions,
Else children will grow up
Thinking bricks only make walls.


I Have Heard That People Look At Her In Amazement

Asif Naqshbandi   Jul 21, 2004   interacts: 56

sunaa hai bole to baato.n se phuul jha.Date hai.n
ye baat hai to chalo baat kar ke dekhate hai.n

Parveen and Asad

Umair Raja   Sep 7, 2003   interacts: 23

She is considered by many to be the best Urdu poet of this generation. She is considered by everyone to be one of the best female Urdu poets of all time.

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