Hold tight, each one of you
Snake-tails of your own
Country, religion, convictions
The way people hold each other
Hold tight, each one of you
Snake-tails of your own
Country, religion, convictions
The way people hold each other
On a sinking boat.
—Noman Shauk, Dubati Nau Par
After the
Touch him, and you will find he is all gone inside
Just like an old mushroom, all wormy inside, and hollow
Under a smooth skin and upright appearance
Full of
I have learned the words of bloodstained courts in order to break the rules.
I have learned and dismantled all the words to construct a singe one:
Home
-Mahmoud Darwish,
Glittering beautiful words
Weighed down by their grand meanings
A high-class crudity
Golden cobweb of lucidity
The two of us are enmeshed in it
Sometimes I write and you read
Planet-like head
Impregnable pupils
Aggression dripping from every pore of the body
That which is exceptional must be saved
— Harishchandra Pandey in Hindi poem Sher Bachao (Abhiyan)
It is time
Ever present high wind
Sweeps the fog in Blocking all that is dear to the eyes.
There is a lull, the air rests.
The fog remains.
–Gujarati poet Sitanshu Yashchandra
Successful people
Have separate shoes
Some for celebrations
Others for grief
–Govinda Mathur, Bache huye shabda
President Hamid Karzai has more faith in his American guards than in his own
Footprint's skeleton-
Orphaned, waits.
For the future history.
With glazed eyes.
– Homraj Acharya, Pailaharu Bhitrabaat
George W Bush is everything that he claims to be. He is a
The soil isn't soil any more
Water is water no more
Even then
The forest hasn't diminished
The stars are not wanted now, put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun—
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood:
For nothing now
Nation-states are facts of South Asia, but none of them is a reality: all nations extend beyond the political boundary of a single state and all states are multinational. This is why the as-yet-unformed South Asia is already a more real entity than the other more 'successful' regions of the world.
