All posts tagged "Poetry"
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3.0KCultureBefore Iqbal’s ‘shikwa’, there was Soch Kral’s divine petition
One Sufi song has been creating waves in Kashmir for years now, but its second-to-none poetic distinction remains a mystic mystery till...
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8.9KLiterature
‘Rinde poshmaal gindaney drayi lolo’: Romance, longing and Rasul Mir
The land of saints and Sufis, Kashmir, or how we Kashmiris dub it, ‘Peer Waer’, Adobe of Saints, has not only impressed...
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3.8KLiterature
Faiz’s Love: Allys and Kashmir
Faiz Ahmad Faiz was one of the greatest poets of Urdu language. He had a rare distinction of being an equally renowned...
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1.8KPoetry
Postcard from Slovenia: ‘The Romance in Kashmir’
I was born in ex-Yugoslavia in Sarajevo, the capital of present Bosnia and Herzegovina, on February 10, 1953 to Slovenian parents. My...
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3.5KPoetry
A poetic response to ‘electoral politics’ in Kashmir: Tott, by Ather Zia
The poem, Tott (Beast of burden) is a historied poetic response to the ‘electoral politics’ in Kashmir Tott Kursi karnawan kaar...
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1.2KPoetry
Association of Disappeared Houses!
Who tore down these walls, Ramzan Wasta built, Over gulps of nun-chai, Boaba brewed for him, With her rough hands, Trembling from...
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2.3KIn Depth
Of travelling hearts and contemporary poets: Reading Sonnet Mondal
Poetry being a mellow saga of traveling hearts and dimensions has pushed poets over centuries to travel and traverse across borders to...
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7.3KPoetry
For the love of language: Kashmir’s new age Urdu poets—Part II
Showcasing her multilingual poetic expertise on social media, rhymester Rumuz E Bekhudi has emerged as one of the promising poets from Kashmir...
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7.1KIn Depth
For the love of language: Kashmir’s new age Urdu poets—Part I
From the 13th century saintly figures like Lal Ded and Shiekh ul Aalam to progressive writers like Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor and Abdul...
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2.9KNarrative
A poetic rendezvous: In conversation with the Bard of Old City
As long as there has been war, there’ve been poets and writers, translating the debris and loss of the battlefield into a...
