Kept On Compromising on Life
To Catch Butterflies
There Was a Heart that Burnt Out: Light
Last Conversation with the Sky
There Was a Time When I Loved Alone
Mother I’ve Been Saved
Main bach gayi maa, main bach gayi maa Tere kachhe lahu ki mehndi mere por por men rach gayi maa Gar mere naqsh ubhar aate, vo phir bhi lahu se bhar jaate Meri aankhen raushan ho jaatin to tezaab ka surma lag jaata Sate-wate men bat jaati, ya kaari men kaam aa jaati Har khwaab adhoora reh jaata Mera qad jo […]
The Grass Is Like Me
گھاس بھی مجھ جیسی ہے پاؤں تلے بچھ کر ہی زندگی کی مراد پاتی ہے مگر یہ بھیگ کر کس بات گواہی بنتی ہے شرمساری کی آنچ کی کہ جذبے کی حدت کی گھاس بھی مجھ جیسی ہے ذرا سر اٹھانے کے قابل ہو تو کاٹنے والی مشین اسے مخمل بنانے کا سودا لیے ہموار […]
Sukrita Paul Kumar
Sukrita Paul Kumar is a distinguished poet and critic. She teaches literature at a Delhi University College. She has published four collections of poems in English, Oscillations, Apurna, Folds of Silence and Without Margins. Other books by her include, Narrating Partition, Conversations on Modernism, The New Story, Breakthrough (ed.), and Man, Woman and Androgyny. Sukrita […]
Kishwar Naheed
Kishwar Naheed is one of the best known feminist poets of Pakistan. Born in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1940, her family moved to Lahore in Pakistan during the 1947 Partition of the sub-continent. Kishwar had to fight to receive an education at a time when women did not go to school; she studied at […]