sochney pe pahra hai, long Urdu poem (original) (raw)
Issues of Contemporary Indian Poetry
Indian literature cannot be defined by its linguistic singularity; rather it celebrates due to its plurality. It is the literature which is being written in different languages of the nation. Therefore various attempts have been made by the scholars to discuss about the ethos behind the literature written in different languages. The contemporary Indian society is undergoing through some significantly rapid changes, therefore the depiction of the issues reflected in literature is also changing. The societal politics is in a position that the tradition of India has also been challenged. The colonial legacy and the fight to re-establish the identity was a common feature of the post-independence Indian literature. But the neo-colonizers have guided us to such a position that we even feel ambiguous in searching the right path towards identity. The Indian poetry of the contemporary age has nicely picked up such issues of the contemporary society. In this paper, an attempt has been made to discuss about how the poets have attempted to focus about the existence of the primeval feelings of being Indian through the poems. The established beliefs on the issues like society, identity, individuality, existence etc. has been challenged by the contemporary happenings. The poets of the contemporary India has tried to focus such issues including the challenges. By citing some examples of a few contemporary Indian poets, some of the major issues of contemporary Indian poetry will come to light and this will be helpful in further discussion about the present and future of Indian poetry.
Urdu Studies , 2020
Second issue of Urdu Studies, edited and published by Arshad Masood Hashmi for the Department of Urdu, Jai Prakash University, Chapra. This issue includes papers contributed by for Urdu Section: Prof. Satya Pal Anand, Former Professor of English, University of the District of Columbia, Washington DC Prof. Syed Hasan Abbas, Head, Department of Persian, BHU, Varanasi (Former Director, Raza Library, Rampur) Prof. Maula Bakhsh, Department of Urdu, AMU, Aligarh Dr. Sarwarul Hoda, Department of Urdu, JNU, New Delhi Dr. Laila Abdi Khojaste, Urdu Author & Lexicologist, Tehran, Iran Dr. Shazia Razzaq, Department. of Urdu, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore Dr. Shazia Omair, Department of Urdu, Delhi University, Delhi Saqib Faridi, Research Scholar, Department of Urdu, JNU for English Section: Prof. David Lelyveld, Professor of History (Retired), William Paterson University, New Jersey, the United States Prof. Marcia Hermansen, Director, Islamic World Studies; Professor, Theology Department, Loyola University, Chicago Prof. Najeeba Arif, Chairperson, Department of Urdu, International Islamic University, Islamabad Prof. Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz- Fras, Chair for East and South Asia, Institute of the Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
Urdu literature particularly poetry is very rich in traditions of patriotic and nationalistic sentiments, which took root and flourished along India's Struggle for freedom. The later half of the 19 th century and early 20 th century saw an impetus in nationalistic and patriotic activities in the movement for freedom drawing people from all walks of life into its fold including men of letters. The strands of progressive movements in Indian literature specially poetry provided fillip to many modern ideas of patriotism, freedom, equality, equity and justice that formed the core of this movement's edifice. Young and budding Indian poets enthusiastically took to expressing their nationalistic ideas in simple and lucid poems. Their writings clearly demonstrate how nationalist ideologies can instrumentalize literature towards its lofty ends, turning patriotic feelings and love for the motherland into a constructive force. Even so many Indian writers such as Iqbal were swept away by the nationalist frenzy. Allama Iqbal was a pioneering poet of Urdu and a fiery poet of patriotism. Iqbal was the founder of a new school of Urdu poetry, which blossomed, in the first quarter of the 20th century. Iqbal's poetry evolved from nationalism, and he remained a poet of patriotism till the end, although, switching his loyalties to different levels from being a zealous nationalist in early period of his career to pan-Islamism in later years. This paper examines in detail the above cited and other patriotic themes in Urdu literature with special reference to Allama Iqbal's poetry, which inspired the sub-continental movement for national awakening and struggle. Examples of such poetry including the thematic poems and couplets of Allama Iqbal is cited and illustrated in Roman transliteration and their translation into English for benefit of English readers.
PROJECTION OF RESTLESSNESS AS A SOCIO-POLITICAL ISSUE IN THE POETRY OF HAMID KHAN
This paper focuses on projection of restlessness as a socio-political issue in Khan's poetry. For this purpose, both the collections of Khan, "Velvet of Loss" and "Pale Leaf (Three Voices)" are used for the data understudy. Only those poems are selected that bear the foregrounded theme of evil. The poems that foreground restlessness as a socio-political issue are: Load Shedding-I and Load Shedding-II. Here, Khan has dexterously pointed to the harsh life Pakistanis are going through. The poems foreground the psychological trauma caused by the lack of basic amenities of life. In a time when the whole world has been squeezed to a palmtop and every smallest or biggest household chore is subject to electricity, the people of Pakistan are groping for facilities in the dark. This, in turn, creates great panic and disappointment in human life. Khan has tried to attract the attention of the responsible people of Pakistan in this connection.
DYNAMICS OF HISTORY, POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN MANIPURI MEITEI POETRY IN ENGLISH
International Education & Research Journal [IERJ], 2023
This paper will attempt to locate four Manipuri poets in English in the ever-changing volatile landscape of history, politics and society of Manipur. Poetry of the four male poets' concerns will be discussed in terms of their involvement in political culture of Manipur from two perspectives relating to contemporary history of Manipur. First one will be about poets' anxieties associated with problems like tensions of democracy, insurgency, drugs, etc. encountered by them in their own backyard, and the second one will dwell on those poets who are living as migrants in other states and their issues like unemployment and nostalgia for their birthplace. In both ways, the changing faces of Manipur, real or imagined, haunt their poetic outputs.
Nationalism in Urdu Poetry A Special Study of Some Urdu Poems
Urdu literature in general and Urdu poetry in particular, always played its part in generating, shaping and mobilizing Indian public opinion, and defeated thereof all odds of time and space through India's progressive journey. Accordingly, Urdu literature resisted the British imperialism from its very beginning. However, during the first half of 20 th century, when British employed in full swing all political, military, ideological and Machiavellian tools to maintain their imperial permanence in India, thereby dividing Indians on different grounds, Urdu poetry performed well its moral responsibility of generating and mobilizing united public opinion against British rule. Urdu poets fought British Raj by inculcating among Indians spirit of harmony, unity, patriotism, and sacrifice. Urdu poetry, besides giving a vide space to all forms of anti-British resistance going on in India and abroad, also quickened the pace of freedom movement by mobilizing the public opinion against British Raj. This piece of research therefore, explores the dominant nationalistic trends in Urdu poetry during first half of 20 th century.