The land of saints and Sufis, Kashmir, or how we Kashmiris dub it, ‘Peer Waer’, Adobe of Saints, has not only impressed...
Faiz Ahmad Faiz was one of the greatest poets of Urdu language. He had a rare distinction of being an equally renowned...
The following poem was written 25 years after the Gawkadal Massacre, on the same day, in an attempt to remember and never...
I’ve been thinking of that summer, When freedom’s terrible thirst, spread, Across the territory of grief, covering, The vast landscape of pain,...
I was born in ex-Yugoslavia in Sarajevo, the capital of present Bosnia and Herzegovina, on February 10, 1953 to Slovenian parents. My...
The poem, Tott (Beast of burden) is a historied poetic response to the ‘electoral politics’ in Kashmir Tott Kursi karnawan kaar...
Who tore down these walls, Ramzan Wasta built, Over gulps of nun-chai, Boaba brewed for him, With her rough hands, Trembling from...
Grey, bulgy, cloudy sky, Still pools of rain, with puddles of pain, Childhood memories swim in cold air, Holding silver, slanting ropes...
Poetry being a mellow saga of traveling hearts and dimensions has pushed poets over centuries to travel and traverse across borders to...