#33 - A ghazal between hope and hopelessness, salvation and sin
In this episode, I read "Ghazal" by Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri American poet. He has a trademark style of writing English verse in the ghazal form. And while his words are not as readily accessible, the reading is joyful indeed because of the lilt and repetition. His poems span his Kashmiri childhood and his American life as an academic and a writer. This poem is a rendering of a personal past and a lament on the state of the world. And that makes it interesting. Because we often do the latter and we can do little about it but what we can influence is perhaps how we live and we almost never work on our relationships and behaviour. Listen in! The poem I read can be accessed here - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43279/ghazal-56d221fe8a756 The host, Ravneet Bawa as - @one_third_above on Instagram @maikeya on Twitter Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: This podcast is created for sharing with friends and family, and only as a passion project amidst the Covid lockdown with no commercial interest. In all episodes I read from sources on the public internet or copies of books I possess. The commentary is all my own.