Iqrar Gar Naheen Hai Toh Inkar Bhi Naheen!

Iqrar Gar NaheeN Hai Toh Inkar Bhi NaheeN by Dr. Chaman Ahuja comprises 4 sections containing 50 poems and 150 qartrains - all born of the poet’s skeptical attitude towards the existence of God. Understandably there being no fixed stand with regard to God themes keep swinging rather vehemently between faith and disbelief. Similar ambivalence marks his attitude towards religion also. The poet rejects the current religious institutions that thrive on orthodoxy and superstitions on the one hand and has a fond longing for a new humanistic religion based on rationalism on the other. Being a humanist to the core the poet envisions Man creating a God that would be not feared but loved and respected for his humane attributes. In one of the poems there is Adam cribbing about God’s injustice in banishing him from the Paradise and God’s assuring him in reply that that was only an act of beneficence–just to make him (through the process of evolution) a ruler of the entire universe! The last poem is a declaration of ceasefire: the poet does not turn a believer but gives up his diatribes out of courtesy to God! The poems are marked by irony wit and questioning but never cross the line of decency to enter the realm of blasphemy.