SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Westland
- By : Purushottam Agrawal
- Cover : Hardcover
- Language : English
- Edition : 2021
- Pages : 284 pages
- Weight : 400 g
- Size : 14 x 14 x 21.6 cm
- ISBN-10 : 939067915X
- ISBN-13 : 978-9390679157
DESCRIPTION:
As the right wing tries to claim Kabir for itself, while other conservatives disown him and yet others portray him as a secular idol beyond religion, the poet has never been so misunderstood. Coming from the Nirgun bhakti tradition, the words of this fifteenth-century poet have the power to reach beyond time and speak to us today. Was he a Hindu or Muslim or was he beyond religion? Did he try to cultivate a new faith or did he eschew organised religion altogether? Was his modernity an exception or a reflection of the times he lived in? What does Kabir’s life and poetry tell us about this nation’s past and present? In this rare appraisal of Kabir’s writings and his life, Purushottam Agarwal approaches this timeless poet-revolutionary with little preconceptions, presenting him the way the poet wanted to be seen, rather than what his followers and fans want to see in him.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Fingerprint! Publishing
- By : Rabindranath Tagore
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2017
- Pages : 128 pages
- Weight : 110 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9788172343675
- ISBN-13 : 978-817234
DESCRIPTION:
Gitanjali in English translation (1911) is a volume of 103 poems selected by Tagore from his several Bengali books of poetry. It was when he learned from William Rothenstein of western interest in them that he translated them into English. Chiefly for this volume, Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.Gitanjali is poetry of life-affirmation: life with its colour and abundance, melancholy and mystery. It is a record of the poet?s intimate response to the splendour of the universe. His poetry in translation was viewed as spiritual, and this together with his mesmerizing persona gave him a prophet-like aura in the west but his ?elegant prose and magical poetry? still remains largely unknown outside the confines of Bengal.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Divine Life society
- By : Swami Chidananda
- Cover: Hardcover
- Language : English
- Edition : 2005
- Pages : 484 pages
- Weight : 567 g
- ISBN-10 : 8170521378
- ISBN-13 : 978-8170521372
DESCRIPTION:
Swami Chidanandaji,successor to Swami Sivananda is well known for his morning meditation talks. Seekers through out the world will find within this book answers to many of their un-resolved questions. Seekers all over the world will probably compare Divine Life Society to an "artesian well" ever quenching the thirst of the spirtual seeker.Draw from it and be benefitted.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : HarperCollins India
- By : Kala Ramesh
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2021
- Pages : 164 pages
- Weight : 500 g
- ISBN-10 : 9354227589
- ISBN-13 : 978-9354227585
DESCRIPTION:
Tanka, a 1300-year-old, five-line lyrical form of poetry from Japan, was originally called 'waka', which translates as 'short song'. The Forest I Know, Kala Ramesh's first book in this genre, consists mainly of tanka, tanka prose and tanka doha. With stunningly bold and beautiful poems encompassing every facet of our day-to-day living, this book is at once ancient and modern, enduring and unforgettable - and is sure to resonate with the reader.
PECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Om Books Internationa
- By : Akanksha G Mittal
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2018
- Pages : 160 pages
- Weight : 150 g
- Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9352766369
- ISBN-13 : 978-9352766369
DESCRIPTION:
All the things that make you strong,Come only once life has broken you,Like the sky with colours, right or wrong,Shall best be known for its shades of blue.The Sound of Silence, Akanksha G. Mittal’s debut collection of poems, is a poignant exploration of themes including love, longing, loss, melancholia, liberation and euphoria.Thoughtfully crafted, each poem weaves a cautionary tale for the wandering heart, while it upholds a fragile, yet tenacious belief in life and light. With its evocative imagery.The Sound of Silence, presents an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of emotions in the course of a sinuous journey called Life.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Bloomsbury India
- By : Abhay K.
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2020
- Pages : 200 page
- Weight : 240 g
- Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9390176654
- ISBN-13 : 978-9390176656
DESCRIPTION:
From the ancient land of India which has given the world, Kamasutra-a treatise on love, Great Indian Love Poems, selected and edited diligently by master anthologist Abhay K., brings you the fragrant wine of Indian love poetry spread across three millennia, written in multiple languages by gifted poets like -Kalidasa, Mirabai,Bhratrihari, Jayadeva, Silhana, Surdas, Bihari, Muddupalani, Bhavabhuti, Venmaniputti, Vidyapati, Bilhana to just name a few.Sip it slowly, one poem at a time, to savour its richness, to relish its aroma and flavour, depth and finesse. This intoxicating book shows you many facets of love-affectionate, playful, sensuous, erotic, unconditional, pining, aching, among others-leaving you with unforgettable experiences and lasting impressions. A cornucopia of delights, this book is a must read for one and all.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Aleph Book Company
- By : Madhu Kailas
- Cover : Hardcover
- Language : English
- Edition : 2019
- Pages : 118 pages
- Weight : 250 g
- Size : 13.97 x 1.12 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9390652820
- ISBN-13 : 978-9390652822
DESCRIPTION:
In this book, Madhu Kailas presents the poet’s engagement with art and creative liberation through startling imagery and innovative verse. In the title poem, ‘The Boatman of Murshidabad’, the eponymous boatman becomes a metaphor for torpor, loneliness, and the remorseless passing of time; in ‘The Day a Song Dared to Soar’, travellers return and pick new faces for rebirth; in ‘Keys Made of Sunshine’, a child grows up and learns to listen to silence; in ‘Silence of Butterflies’, golden silk strands cascade on to the green forest floor; and in ‘The Forest Sings’, the breeze preserves an arrangement of leaves and flowers in a secret language. Deeply felt and packed with insights into the human condition, The Boatman of Murshidabad is a dazzling collection of poems by an accomplished poet.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Amaryllis; an imprint of Manjul Publishing House
- By : Kahlil Gibran
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2019
- Pages : 220 pages
- Weight : 450 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9388241967
- ISBN-13 : 978-9388241960
DESCRIPTION:
Kahlil Gibran’s aphorisms, stories and poetry on themes like love in all its myriad forms, and relationships in all its hues, remain among the best loved by readers. Gibran’s views, however, extend beyond the most-quoted ‘greeting card’ sayings, to encompass a wide realm of human emotions and relationships—passion, desire, idealized love, justice, friendship, and the challenges of dealing with strangers, neighbors, and enemies. This book captures love and life in all their complexities and nuances. This beautiful volume includes over 90 selections from Gibran’s writings, and is informative, illuminating and inspirational, and makes for an ideal gift for all occasions.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- By : Chandan Sinha
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2020
- Pages : 204 pages
- Weight : 227 g
- Size : 12.9 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9389967732
- ISBN-13 : 978-9389967739
DESCRIPTION:
The Bhakti saint-poet Kabir's sakhis/ dohas (couplets) have been a source of wisdom to people across the spectrums of caste, class and creed. His sakhis are his conversations with God, with himself and with us in everyday colourful tongue that leave a mark on readers of all ages.
Several translations have appeared until now but this book by Chandan Sinha is a first of its kind. In his Foreword, John Stratton Hawley calls this a 'strikingly original book' that translates the sakhis in rhyme—as in the original—which is easy enough 'in Hindi, but it’s very much harder in English.' A short explanation follows each translation.It is a book to turn to every day.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Harper Collins India
- By : Arundhathi Subramaniam
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2020
- Pages : 112 pages
- Weight : 500 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9353576121
- ISBN-13 : 978-9353576127
DESCRIPTION:
Arundhathi Subramaniam's poems explore ambivalences -- the desire for adventure and anchorage, expansion and containment, vulnerability and strength, freedom and belonging, withdrawal and engagement, language as exciting resource and as desperate refuge. These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, and all the roadblocks and rewards on the long dangerous route to recovering what it is to be alive and human. Winner of the inaugural Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize, When God Is a Traveller is a remarkable book of poetry.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Grapevine India
- By : Grapevine
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2018
- Pages : 331 pages
- Weight : 500 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9789381841051
- ISBN-13 : 978-9381841051
DESCRIPTION:
Poetry gives meaning to our lives. For many of us, it's a way of understanding the world around us. This book is an attempt to bring together the greatest words ever written by some men and women to have walked this planet.
PECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Pan Macmillan India
- By : Rabindranath Tagore
- Cover : Hardcover
- Language : English
- Edition : 2019
- Pages : 140 pages
- Weight : 450 g
- Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9386215926
- ISBN-13 : 978-9386215925
DESCRIPTION:
Kabir is one of the most beloved Indian mystics. He is also amongst the pioneers of the Bhakti Movement in North India. One Hundred Poems of Kabir is a classic book of poems, translated into English by the maestro, Rabindranath Tagore. These poems are songs of love written in the voice of a lover longing for the beloved. The mystical connotations unravel the journey of the soul to its union with the Supreme Being.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Harper Collins
- By : Farrukh Dhondy
- Cover : Hardcover
- Language : English
- Edition : 2011
- Pages : 180 pages
- Weight : 200 g
- Size : 12.6 x 1.7 x 18.5 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9350290820
- ISBN-13 : 978-9350290828
DESCRIPTION:
Marked by lyrical beauty and spiritual insight, a deep understanding of human suffering that coexists with rapturous abandon, the poems of Jalaluddin Rumi continue to be relevant almost eight centuries after they were composed, with contemporary audiences finding new meanings in them. Rumi's poems bring together the divine and the human, the mystical and the corporeal to create a vivid kaleidoscope of poetic images. While many recent 'translations' have sought to give Rumi's poetry a certain hippy sensibility, robbing it of its true essence, Farrukh Dhondy attempts to bring out the beauty and sensibility of the verses whilst imitating the metre of the original. Dhondy's translations provide a modern idiom to the poems, carefully keeping intact their religious context.
SPECIFICATION
- Publisher : StoryMirror Infotech
- By : Himanshu Mecvan (હિમાંશુ મેકવાન)
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : Gujarati
- Edition : 2017
- Pages : 87
- Weight : 75 gm.
- Size : 7 x 4.5 x 0.1 inches
- ISBN-10 : 9386305690
- ISBN-13 : 978-9386305695
DESCRIPTION:
Antarno Ariso is a book of poetry and gazals, Gujarati. Author firmly and strongly believes that each one of us are 100% pure while talking to mirror. Similarly author has penned his thoughts and feelings, experiences of life till date. The subjects covered are mostly love, death, mother and the nature. There are some poems where the questions to almighty are raised against the society. In short it's a mirror of author's life experiences.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher :Rajpal and Sons
- By: Shankar Sharan (Author)
- Binding : Hardcover
- Language: Hindi
- Edition :2013
- Pages: 156 pages
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9350640813
- ISBN-13: 9789350640814
DESCRIPTION:
‘‘गाँधी काम-भावना की दुर्दम्य शक्ति से जीवनपर्यंत आक्रान्त रहे। उन्होंने ब्रह्मचर्य व्रत, अर्थात पत्नी के साथ शारीरिक सम्बन्ध का त्याग सन् 1906 में ही ले लिया था। पर वे स्त्री-पुरुष सम्बन्ध के आकर्षण से कभी मुक्त नहीं हो सके। जिसे गाँधीजी ने जीवन के उत्तरार्ध में ‘ब्रह्मचर्य प्रयोग’ कहा, उसके गम्भीर अध्ययन के बाद वह मोह और आकर्षण ही लगता है। स्वयं गाँधीजी ने अपनी आत्मकथा लिखने में तथा उस के बारह वर्ष बाद भी स्वीकार किया है कि वे ‘इन्द्रिय नियन्त्रण’ रखने में कठिनाई महसूस करते हैं। अर्थात् 57 और 69 वर्ष की आयु में भी उनका ब्रह्मचर्य एक सचेत प्रयत्न था, सहजावस्था नहीं। गाँधीजी ने यह छिपाया नहीं, यह उनकी महानता थी। किन्तु उन प्रयोगों में कोई महानता नहीं थी।’’ गाँधीजी के ब्रह्मचर्य के प्रयोग क्या थे? ऐसे प्रयोगों के पीछे गाँधीजी की क्या धारणा थी? कारण क्या थे, ऐसे प्रयोग करने के? और इन प्रयोगों की गाँधीजी के जीवन में क्या अहमियत थी? ऐसे ही कुछ असहज सवालों पर यह पुस्तक प्रकाश डालती है। गंभीर अध्ययन के बाद लिखी यह पुस्तक प्रामाणिक उद्धरणों पर आधारित है और लेखक का कहना है कि ‘‘यह एक प्रयास है ताकि हम प्रत्येक विषय पर पूर्वाग्रहरहित होकर जानकारी प्राप्त करने तथा सोचने-विचारने के प्रति सचेत हों।’’
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher :Rajpal and Sons
- By: (Author)
- Binding : Hardcover
- Language: Hindi
- Edition :2011
- Pages: 176 pages
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 81702893610
- ISBN-13: 9788170289364
DESCRIPTION:
अन्तरिक्ष मानव के लिए एक रहस्यमय चुनौती है, जिसे वह समझने और जीतने का निरंतर प्रयास करता रहा है। 1961 में पहली बार मनुष्य अन्तरिक्ष में गया; तब से लेकर अन्तरिक्ष विज्ञान के क्षेत्र में अनेक कीर्तिमान बने हैं। इन सब कीर्तिमानों की जानकारी इस पुस्तक में प्रस्तुत है। सामान्य पाठक, बुद्धिजीवी, विद्यार्थी सभी इस पुस्तक को पढ़कर ज्ञान बढ़ा सकते हैं और अपना मनोरंजन भी कर सकते हैं।
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher :Rajpal and Sons
- By: Dharampal Gupta Shalabh (Author)
- Binding : Paperback
- Language: Hindi
- Edition :2020
- Pages: 112 pages
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 93893733110
- ISBN-13: 9789389373318
DESCRIPTION:
इस अत्यंत लोकप्रिय पुस्तक-माला की शुरुआत 1960 के दशक में हुई जब पहली बार नागरी लिपि में उर्दू की चुनी हुई शायरी के संकलन प्रकाशित कर राजपाल एण्ड सन्ज़ ने हिन्दी पाठकों को उर्दू शायरी का लुत्फ़ उठाने का अवसर प्रदान किया। शृंखला की हर पुस्तक में शायर के संपूर्ण लेखन में से बेहतरीन शायरी का चयन है और पाठकों की सुविधा के लिए कठिन शब्दों के अर्थ भी दिये हैं; और साथ ही हर शायर के जीवन और लेखन पर रोचक भूमिका भी है।
आज तक इस पुस्तक-माला के अनगिनत संस्करण छप चुके हैं। अब इसे एक नई साज-ज्जा में प्रस्तुत किया जा रहा है।
मोमिन ख़ान मोमिन (1800 - 1851) ग़ालिब, ज़ौक के वक्त के शायर हैं, जो अपनी ग़ज़लों के लिए याद किये जाते हैं और जिनमें फ़ारसी भाषा की ख़ास झलक मिलती है। कहा जाता है कि मोमिन के इस एक शे’र के लिए ग़ालिब उन्हें अपना पूरा दीवान देने के लिए तैयार थे -
तुम मेरे पास होते हो गोया
जब कोई दूसरा नहीं होता
कश्मीरी परिवार में जन्मे, मोमिन पेशे से तो एक हकीम थे और शायद इसीलिए उन्हें हक़ीम ख़ान भी कहा जाता है।
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher :Rajpal and Sons
- By: (Author)
- Binding : Paperback
- Language: Hindi
- Edition :2017
- Pages: 160 pages
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 8170289793
- ISBN-13: 9788170289791
DESCRIPTION:
मशहूर उर्दू शायर शहरयार के समूचे कलाम में से उनके क़रीबी दोस्त, प्रसिद्ध साहित्यकार कमलेश्वर द्वारा विशेष रूप से तैयार संकलन, शायर की ज़िन्दगी और उनके लेखन पर रोचक भूमिका सहित चैंकानेवाली आतिशबाज़ी से हटकर, शाइस्तगी से भरी कुछ ऐसी शायरी जो अजाने ही वक्त की पुकार में बदल जाती है।
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher :Rajpal and Sons
- By: Suresh Salil (Author)
- Binding :Paperback
- Language: Hindi
- Edition :2018
- Pages: 624 pages
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10:: 9386534509
- ISBN-13: 9789386534507
DESCRIPTION:
"कविता सदी आधुनिक हिन्दी कविता का प्रतिनिधि संचयन है जिसमें आधुनिक हिन्दी के जन्मदाता भारतेन्दु हरिश्चंद्र से समकालीन हिन्दी कविता के अग्रगण्य कवि सम्मिलित हैं। यह चयन एक जिल्द में आधुनिक हिन्दी कविता की सुनहरी तस्वीर है जिसमें पिछले डेढ़ सौ वर्षों के हिन्दी कविता के भिन्न-भिन्न आन्दोलनों, प्रवृत्तियों और शैलियों की झलक मिलती है। यहाँ नवजागरणकालीन कवियों की बानी है तो छायावाद के कोमल स्वर भी, प्रगतिशील कविता के मील पत्थर हैं तो प्रयोगवाद और नयी कविता की विशिष्ट कविताएँ भी। दलित और स्त्री अस्मिताओं के प्रतिनिधि कवियों को यहाँ पढ़ा जा सकता है और समकालीन कविता के शीर्ष कवियों को भी। हिन्दी कविता के इस चयन को तैयार किया है सुपरिचित कवि, लेखक, आलोचक और अनुवादक सुरेश सलिल ने। 19 जून 1942 में जन्मे सुरेश सलिल हिन्दी, उर्दू और अंग्रेज़ी के विद्वान हैं। अब तक उनके छह मौलिक कविता-संग्रह प्रकाशित हैं और अनेक काव्य अनुवाद भी, जिसमें मुख्य है - बीसवीं सदी की विश्व कविता का बृहत् संचयन : रोशनी की खिड़कियाँ । हाल ही में उनके द्वारा सम्पादित कारवाने-ग़ज़ल (आठ सौ वर्षों की ग़ज़लों का सफ़रनामा) को आलोचकों और पाठकों, दोनों ने ही सराहा है।"
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher :Rajpal and Sons
- By: Suresh Salil (Author)
- Binding :Paperback
- Language: Hindi
- Edition :2017
- Pages: 352 pages
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10: 9350643995
- ISBN-13: 9789350643990
DESCRIPTION:
हर ज़ुबान से सबसे मीठी बातें होती हैं प्यार-मोहब्बत की, और जब ये उर्दू ज़ुबान में कही जायें तो इन्हें ‘ग़ज़ल’ कहा जाता है। ग़ज़ल एक ख़ास किस्म की काव्य-विधा है जिसकी शुरुआत अरबी साहित्य में पायी जाती है। अरबी से जब ग़ज़ल फ़ारसी में आयी तो इसमें सूफ़ीवाद और अध्यात्म भी जुड़ गये; और हिन्दुस्तान की सरज़मीं पर आते-आते ग़ज़ल की ज़ुबान उर्दू हो गयी। हिन्दुस्तान में कहाँ पर ग़ज़ल की शुरुआत हुई, उत्तर भारत या दक्कन में, इस पर विवाद है। शुरुआत कहीं भी हुई हो, लेकिन हिन्दुस्तानियों ने ग़ज़ल को पूरी तरह से अपना बना लिया और इसे देवनागरी में भी लिखा जाने लगा। प्रतीकों और संकेतों के ज़रिये भावपूर्ण अभिव्यक्ति करने वाली ग़ज़ल में प्रेम और श्रृंगार के अलावा दर्शन, सूफ़ीवाद, अध्यात्म, देशभक्ति, नैतिक सिद्धान्त सभी विषयों पर लिखा जाता है। कारवाने ग़ज़ल में हिन्दी के नामी कवि और उर्दू के विशेषज्ञ, सुरेश सलिल, ने अमीर खुसरो से लेकर परवीन शाकिर तक, 173 चुनिंदा शायर और कवि जो अब हमारे बीच नहीं हैं, की ग़ज़लों का इन्द्रधनुषी गुलदस्ता सजाया है। वही उमर का एक पल कोई लाये तड़पती हुई सी ग़ज़ल कोई लाये हक़ीक़त को लाये तख़ैयुल से बाहर मेरी मुश्किलों का जो हल कोई लाये - शमशेर
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher :Rajpal and Sons
- By: Suresh Salil (Author)
- Binding :Paperback
- Language: Hindi
- Edition :2020
- Pages: 128 pages
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10: 93893732810
- ISBN-13: 9789389373288
DESCRIPTION:
कल कबूतर उड़ाये जाते थे आज गिद्धों से चल रही दुनिया उफ्, कि नीरो बजा रही बांसुरी उफ्, शोलों में जल रही दुनिया कभी दुनिया बदल रहे थे हम आज हमको बदल रही दुनिया ऐसी सटीक ग़ज़लें कहने वाले सुपरिचित कवि, अनुवादक, संपादक और समीक्षक सुरेश सलिल के इस संग्रह में उनकी ग़ज़लें, नज़्में, कत्ए और शे’र शामिल हैं जो उन्होंने पिछले एक दशक में कहे हैं। अभिव्यक्ति के लिए कविता, गीत, ग़ज़ल, नज़्म आदि हिन्दी-उर्दू के सभी काव्य रूपों में वे आवाजाही करते हैं और इनके काव्य सरोकार ग्राम से नगर तक और व्यक्ति-चेतना से सामाजिक-वैचारिक चेतना तक सूत्रबद्ध हैं। सुरेश सलिल द्वारा अनुवादित-संपादित बीसवीं सदी की विश्व कविता का संचयन, रोशनी की खिड़कियाँ, चर्चित है। बर्टोल्ट ब्रेष्ट, पाब्लो नेरूदा, नाज़िम हिकमत आदि दुनिया के अनेक महाकवियों के पुस्तकाकार संचयन भी उन्होंने हिन्दी अनुवाद में प्रस्तुत किये हैं। उनके द्वारा संपादित ग़ज़ल की आठ सौ साल लम्बी यात्रा का प्रतिनिधि संकलन, कारवाने ग़ज़ल, और बीसवीं सदी की हिन्दी कविता का संचयन, कविता सदी, बहुप्रशंसित है। 19 जून 1942 में जन्मे सुरेश सलिल दिल्ली में रहते हैं। इनका संपर्क है: ई-14, सादतपुर, दिल्ली-110090, मोबाइल: 07042481980
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher :Rajpal and Sons
- By: Kuldip Salil (Author)
- Binding :Hardcover
- Language: English
- Edition :2018
- Pages: 140 pages
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10: 8170286921
- ISBN-13: 9788170286929
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With Meer, Ghalib, Iqbal and Faiz, to name only four, the firmament of Urdu poetry is truly star-studded, with Humerous starlets strewn around. Ghalib has not only pride of place among them but his stature is growing with every passing decade. He was ahead of his time, and his contemporaries failed to comprehend him fully. It was when India (and Pakistan) celebrated his first death centenary in 1969 that Ghalib was really rehabilitated and recognized as the great poet that he is. There has been no looking back after that. As with other great poets like Shakespeare, one discovers a new wealth of meaning every time one reads him, and different people find different meaning, suiting their need and situation. In other words, great poets are inexhaustible in their appeal and meaning and do not get dated even when they mirror their times most effectively. Ghalib's writings are not only an authentic account of his own age, his poetry transcends his times and situation and is universal in its appeal.''
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher :Rajpal and Sons
- By: Kuldip Salil (Author)
- Binding :Hardcover
- Language: English
- Edition :2018
- Pages: 192 pages
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10: 9350643111
- ISBN-13: 9789350643112
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Sahir Ludhianvi can be called the poet with a “social conscience” as is evident from his poetry in which social concerns are often the dominant themes. Through his poetry he lamented the decline of morality in society, discrimination against women, futility of war, and attacked the rise of the self-appointed custodians of religion and power-hungry politicians. Born into a Muslim family on March 8, 1921, his real name was Abdul Hayee and Sahir Ludhianvi was his pen name. Sahir's childhood was marked by the separation of his parents and the unfair treatment of his mother. His first work, a collection of poems in Urdu, Talkhiyan, was published in 1945 when he was just 24 years old. He worked as a journalist and editor in Lahore, editing several Urdu magazines. In 1949 he moved to Mumbai, after the Pakistan government issued arrest warrants for him for making inflammatory and communal statements. Mumbai proved to be lucky for him as his poetic genius was discovered by the Hindi film industry. For three decades he wrote lyrics of Hindi film songs, forming successful partnerships with several music directors. His ego often came in the way of his ability to sustain long term professional relationships and he fell out with people over trivial matters. He died of a cardiac arrest on October 25, 1980 in Mumbai. Sahir Ludhianvi was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1971, and on his 92nd birthday a commemorative stamp was issued in his memory. Best of Sahir offers an English translation of Sahir Ludhinavi's selected ghazals and nazms along with their transliterations in Hindi and English.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher :Rajpal and Sons
- By: Kuldip Salil (Author)
- Binding :Hardcover
- Language: English
- Edition :2017
- Pages: 168 pages
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10: 8170289602
- ISBN-13: 9788170289609
DESCRIPTION:
Meer Taqi Meer, the eighteenth century Udru poet, is called the imam (leader) of Urdu poetry. He was highly regarded by his contemporaries and even the later poets, including Ghalib, acknowledged Meer's poetic genius. Meer belonged to the Delhi school of Urdu ghazals. The greatest strength of his poetry is its simplicity and elegant style. The language he used is not intricate or grand but simple and easily understood. It is this simplicity which makes a deep impact on the readers. Meer also used Persian imagery and idiom in his poetry to enhance its beauty. Though Meer tried his hand at various poetic forms, his fame is mainly due to his ghazals which deal with love, especially unrequited love. He has written some of the best Urdu poems on love. His masnavi Mu'amlat-e-Ishq is counted among the greatest love poems in Urdu literature. His personal life influenced the poetry he wrote and the pathos and melancholy in his poetry are due to the tragedies he suffered throughout his life. Meer wrote poetry in Urdu and Persian. His collection of Urdu poems, Kulliat-e-Meer, has six volumes which have 13,585 couplets. Kulliat-e-Farsi is the collection of his poems in Persian language. Meer also wrote his autobiography in Persian called Zikr-e-Meer. This book offers a selection of the best ghazals of Meer Taqi Meer, translated into English by Kuldip Salil. To help you enjoy the richness and flavor of Urdu Language, the original Urdu ghazals are transliterated and presented both in Roman and Devangari scripts.