The beggar of dreams on August 22, 2018Poochho to paagal ka sapna, samjho to sansar (If you ask it is the dream of a madman, if you understand it is the world). Writing the foreword to Shahryar’s maiden collection of poetry, Ism-e-Aazam (1965), his teacher and someone who was to exercise a great influence on him over the years, Ale Ahmad Suroor […]
Gulzar revisits what was left behind post Partition on September 14, 2017A brief conversation at a literary festival led to the planting of a gem of an idea that eventually yielded — a little over a year later — the book you hold in your hands today. Given that 2017 marks the 70th year of the annus horribilis that was the partition and given, also, that […]