A Tribute to Ghalib : Twenty-one Ghazals Reinterprete & Amrita -Imroz: A Love Story [Paperback] Trilok Uma (Set of 2 books )

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1869) lived at a time of historic change in India a period when the British conquest of India was in its ascendancy and the Mughal empire was coming to an end. He was witness to the ravaging of Delhi and its courtly culture culminating in the uprising of 1857. This trauma accompanied by his personal losses informs his poetry evidenced in Divan-EGhalib containing 235 Urdu ghazals redolent with a sense of loss grief and a plangent longing for a vanished way of life. Yet what sets his poetry apart is anirrepressible sense of humour energy and linguistic delight that drive his darkest lamentations.In A Tribute to Ghalib Azra Raza and Sara Suleri Goodyear select twenty-one ghazals that illustrate the astonishing range of Ghalib's many voices and the ideas that populate his poetry. Every ghazal is accompanied by an introduction a literal translation and a detailed commentary shedding light on the complexities of the individual sher as well as the ghazal as a whole. This book will be invaluable not only to the Ghalib aficionado but also the lay reader. About the Author Azra Raza was born in Karachi Pakistan. She is a practising oncologist and research scientist by profession and lives in Manhattan with her daughter.Sara Suleri Goodyear was born in Karachi Pakistan. She is professor of English at Yale University and the author of Meatless Days Rhetoric of English India and Boys Will Be Boys.When I wrapped myself with your being our bodies turned inwards in contemplation Our limbs intertwined Like blossoms in a garland Like an offering at the altar of the spirit Our names slipping out of our lips Became a sacred hymn . . (from Adi Dharam by Amrita Pritam). Acclaimed as the doyenne of Punjabi literature Amrita Pritam received many awards including India's highest literary award the Jnanpith in 1981. Born in Gujranwala now in Pakistan in 1919 she came to India after the partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Her best-known work is a classic poem addressed to the great eighteenth-century Sufi poet Waris Shah in which she laments the carnage of Partition and calls on him to give voice from his grave. Amrita met Imroz a well-known artist in the 1960s and they became lifelong companions. They stayed together for more than forty years till her death after a long illness in October 2005. In this moving tribute she communicates her sense of deep wonder at their unique and unconventional relationship as also her profound admiration for the creative energy of these two extraordinary individuals.