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Welcome to the 5th episode of the Gaza series on the Zabaan-e-aam podcast. Today I have a poem I translated on Gaza. It is a Diary Entry. I am translating poems and diary entriesfrom the latest edition of the Arablit Quarterly. The details on Arablit are in the description. You can purchase a copy from here.
This poem is written by Hind Joudah on 25th Feb 2024.
Hind Joudah is a poet from Al-Breij Refugee Camp, Gaza. She has published two collections of poems entitled Someone Always Leaves and No Sugar in the City.
The other poem I have read in this podcast is by the same poet and published on the Instagram handle Landscapes of Hope. You can read the poem here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C1NAJFRLANT/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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sub.h-o-shām filistīñ meñ ḳhuuñ bahtā hai
sāya-e-marg meñ kab se insāñ rahtā hai
band karo ye bāvardī ġhunda-gardī
baat ye ab to ek zamāna kahtā hai
~ Habib Jalib's (uTTho marne ka haq istimal karo)
From<https://www.rekhta.org/nazms/uttho-marne-kaa-haq-istimaal-karo-jiine-kaa-haq-saamraaj-ne-chhiin-liyaa-habib-jalib-nazms>
Welcome to the 4th episode of the Gaza series on the Zabaan-e-aam podcast. This is the 4th Diary Entry that I have translated into Punjabi from the Arablit Quarterly magazine. This diary entry from Gaza is written by Anees Ghanima.
Anees Ghanima was born in Gaza City in 1992, and currently resides there, working in Arab internet content support. He is a member of the youth assembly “Utopia for Knowledge.” He writes poetry and publishes in local and Arab literary and cultural magazines. His debut poetrycollection Funeral of a Juggler won the 2017 Young Writer
Award from the Abdul Mohsen Al-Qattan Foundation.
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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 16 of the Zabaan-e-aam. Today's guest is Dr. Sree Devi from Kerala who teaches in a college in Bangalore and she has translated a poem written by Rasliya M.S. published in the 2022 on International Women's day! Today's poem is titled as 'She-depths' in English and it explores gender identities and the loss of feminine agency in the Malayalam context.The poem employs metaphors that are macabre to express the experiences of being lost. This, sometimes, resonates universally as a lot of women feel the same across time and space. I thoroughly enjoyed the poem and I am sure this will reach a lot of women as words such as 'she-depths', the depths of the well, the ponds, the sea, the 'loving touch'. Are these measured?More about Dr. Sree Devi (in her own words)I like to engage with writings that offer newer perspectives, and often turn to regional literature for its ability to estrange. Story telling in Malayalam mystifies me , as does the space that I contextualise in my poem ...I like the picturesque and bizarre all at once ...while I like to read and teach Murakami ...I oil paint, the themes that I draw on being picturesque. I have engaged quite a bit with the genre of Creative Non fiction teaching it to young adults and doing research around it. My areas of research interest are cultural memory studies and Spatiality. If you would like to support our podcast, please click on the links below:Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/zabaaneaam Instamojo: https://knotty1.myinstamojo.com/product/buy-me-a-coffeeFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zabaan_e_aam
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Welcome to a new episode of the Zabaan-e-aam. This is the 3rd episode of the Gaza series and a translation from the latest episode of the Arablit Quarterly Magazine which has diary entries from Gaza. If you want to read more diary entries from Gaza, you can purchase this edition from here: https://arablit.gumroad.com/The modern-day tragedy of the world is that human beings created weapons to save themselves. But these are being used against innocent people, innocent children and hundreds and thousands of people who were given just a small stretch of land as compensation for the country where they lived. I wish the bombings stop and Gazans can rebuild their lives. May they be able to access aid and live peacefully. Today's diary entry is from Ahmed Mortaja written on 29th Jan 2024. Ahmed Mortaja is a writer born in 1996 in Gaza City. He studiedpsychology and was active in many cultural organizations in the city.He survived a bombardment that destroyed his home on October 28.He came out from under the rubble and continued writing.If you would like to support our podcast, please click on the links below:Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/zabaaneaam Instamojo: https://knottymusings.in/product/4682733/buy-me-a-coffee-47842Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zabaan_e_aamYou can read the translations on ourblog: https://zabaaneaam.wordpress.com/
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जो मेरे घर कभी नहीं आएँगे मैं उनसे मिलने उनके पास चला जाऊँगा। एक उफनती नदी कभी नहीं आएगी मेरे घर नदी जैसे लोगों से मिलने नदी किनारे जाऊँगा कुछ तैरूँगा और डूब जाऊँगा From: https://www.hindwi.org/kavita/jo-mere-ghar-kabhi-nahin-ayenge-vinod-kumar-shukla-kavita?sort=popularity-desc Welcome to a new episode of the Zabaan-e-aam Podcast. Vinod Kumar Shukl was born in 1937 in Chhattisgarh. He is known for magic realism in his poetry. He is a recipient of various awards: the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award and last year he got the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature 2023. In this episode Ashish Gaur talks about the prose written by Vinod Kumar Shukla and he also explores 4 of his poems. There is a lot to learn from prolific poets such as Mr. Shukl. His prose is also as good as his poems. His poems, though simple, bring out facts about life which we usually do not think about.Ashish's podcast and other detailsInsta Handle: https://instagram.com/rockfordashish?igshid=NzZlODBkYWE4Ng%3D%3D&utm_source=qrBlog Link: https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/650184745400084003Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/rockfordashishSpotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/6lgLeVQ995MoLPbvT8SvCEBook Availability Link: https://www.amazon.in/Sard-Shab-Sulagte-Khwaab-Ashish/dp/9389763274If you would like to support our podcast, please click on the links below:Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/zabaaneaam Instamojo: https://knottymusings.in/product/4682733/buy-me-a-coffee-47842Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zabaan_e_aam
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Welcome to Season 2, episode 13 of the Zabaan-e-aam podcast.In this episode, I am sharing a poem I have translated into Punjabi from the Arablit Quarterly magazine.In the latest edition of the Arablit Quarterly, various diary entries from Gaza have been published. In the last episode I translated a diary entry by Besan Nateel. This time I have picked a poem written by Basman Aldirawi. It talks about the unpredictability of life in Gaza.Basman is a physiotherapist and a graduate of Al-Azhar University in Gaza in 2010. Inspired by an interest in music, movies, and people withspecial needs, he contributes dozens of stories to the online platform 'We Are Not Numbers'.Thank you for listening to Zabaan-e-aam. I will be back with more poems and stories from Gaza. You can read the Punjabi translation here: https://wp.me/pegOzU-1VIf you have a story or a poem that you want to share, please feel free to DM me on Instagram or email me at [email protected]. If you would like to support our podcast, please click on the links below:Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/zabaaneaam Instamojo: https://knottymusings.in/product/4682733/buy-me-a-coffee-47842Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zabaan_e_aan
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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 12 of Zabaan-e-aam podcast. We are back with another episode on Gaza as promised.I am very very thankful to Layla Azmi Goushey and Marcia who shared the Arab Lit Quarterly's recent Gaza edition with me. Arablit Quarterly is a magazine of Arabic Literature in translation. This edition has diary entries from writers from Gaza who are documenting their lives living under the constant bombing under Israel. I have translated one diary entry into Punjabi and will be translating more and sharing them with you.You can read the Punjabi translation here: https://wp.me/pegOzU-1UIf you have a story or a poem on Gaza that you want to share, please feel free to DM me on Instagram or email me at [email protected] you would like to support our podcast, please click on the links below: Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/zabaaneaam Instamojo: https://knotty1.myinstamojo.com/product/buy-me-a-coffee
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May Day special Podcast
Niwala by Ali Sardar Jafri
Sadak ban rahi hai by Salam Machhli Shahri ~ Poems read by Mahtab Alam ~ May Day
Mahtab Alam is a Delhi based multilingual journalist, researcher and podcaster on politics, law, media, literature and human rights. He was the founding executive editor of The Wire Urdu. Mahtab is also a guest podcaster with SunoIndia.in and the founder of Radio Urdu, an exclusive platform for podcasts in Urdu. In 2021, he received the RedInk Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Couplets from the Rekhta app
Shahr men mazdoor jaisa dar-ba-dar koi nahin,
Jis ne sab ke ghar banae us ka ghar koi nahin.
There is no one as homeless as a labourer in a city
He who has made everyone’s homes, has no home of his own ~ unknown
so jaate haiñ fōtpath pe aḳhbār bichhā kar
mazdūr kabhī niiñd kī golī nahīñ khāte
~ Munawwar Rana
kuchal kuchal ke na fōt-pāth ko chalo itnā
yahāñ pe raat ko mazdūr ḳhvāb dekhte haiñ ~ Ahmad Salman
mill mālik ke kutte bhī charbīle haiñ
lekin mazdūroñ ke chehre piile haiñ
~ Tanveer Sipra
tirī zamīn pe kartā rahā huuñ mazdūrī
hai sūkhne ko pasīna muāvza hai kahāñ
~ Asim Wasti
May Day and Mazdoors: How Urdu Poets Have Portrayed the Plight of the Workers ~ Rakhshanda Jalil
https://www.thequint.com/opinion/may-day-portrayal-labour-urdu-poetry-hindi-films#read-more#read-more
Other sources
'International Labour Day 2024'
https://indianexpress.com/article/when-is/international-labour-day-2024-date-origin-significance-may-day-9284138/
'The Unknown Ambedkar: India's First Labour Minister' https://theleaflet.in/the-unknown-ambedkar-indias-first-labour-minister/
The Lallantop video - https://youtu.be/NGitJNFCZO4?si=v2hUUW4ryH5fHcCY
Welcome to the 11th episode of Zabaan-e-aam podcast. Today is 1st of May, also known as Worker's day, May Day or Mazdoor Diwas. It is celebrated to recognise the contributions of the working class and workers' rights worldwide.
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Hello, aadaab, satsriakal and namaskaar. Welcome to the 10th episode of Season 2 of the Zabaan-e-aam podcast.
Assan taan joban rutte marna
Murr jana assan bhare bharaye
In the season of youth I shall die… pass on shall I in full bloom
Hijr tere di kar pakarma
Assan taan joban rutte marna
Having circum-navigated this world of yours… pass on shall I in the prime-of-my-youth.
Joban rutte jo vi marda
Phul bane ya taara
Joban rutte aashiq marde
Jaan koi karmaan wala
Poetry from: https://folkpunjab.org/poetry/shiv-kumar-batalvi/assan-taan-joban-rutte-marna/
Translation from: www.shivkumarbatalvi.com
Shiv Kumar Batalvi was born in October 1937 (some websites mention July 1936) in a village named Bara Pind Lohtian (currently located in the Narowal district of Punjab) in Pakistan.
In 1965, Shiv Kumar Batalvi was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award- the highest literary award for literary achievements in India, for his book Loona. He is the youngest recipient of this honor to date.
From: http://www.shivkumarbatalvi.com/
Errata* - Aena akhiyaan ch paavaan kivein kajla mentioned in the podcast is not written by Shiv Kumar Batalvi as per a source from the internet. A lot of websites credited him, hence, it was mentioned in the podcast. Apologies for the wrong info.
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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 9 of the Zabaan-e-aam podcast.
Dr. Jagtar Singh (1935-2010) was a writer, critic, translator and lecturer. He was a Punjabi poet who wrote 32 books. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1995 for his book “Jugnu Deeva te Dariya” the only Punjabi book of ghazals to be awarded so far. This information is from Ludhiana Times 2002. He has translated Pakistani’s author Abdulla Hassan’s popular Urdu work “Raat” into Punjabi and also Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s work “Raat di Raaz”.
He stayed in Pakistan to do his research on modern Punjabi poetry in Pakistan from 1947 to 1972. He compiled a dictionary of difficult works from Baba Farid and other Sufi poets as part of his Fellowship work for three years. He has translated 200 words and idioms including Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit from Kissas.
Source: https://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020329/ldh2.htm
The poem ਕੋਈ ਮਜਬੂਰੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਜੇ ਦਿਲ ਕਰੇ ਤਾਂ ਖ਼ਤ ਲਿਖੀਂ has been taken from https://www.punjabi-kavita.com/PunjabiPoetryDrJagtar.php#Jagtar12
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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 8 of the Zabaan-e-aam.
Today's guest is Dr. Sree Devi from Kerala who teaches in a college in Bangalore and her poem 'A Reverie' is based on her experiences of growing up in Kerala. The poem is heart touching and the best part according to me is that it's recited so passionately. This 8-minute podcast will transport you to the lush green landscape of Kerala.
More about Dr. Sree Devi (in her own words)
I like to engage with writings that offer newer perspectives, and often turn to regional literature for its ability to estrange. Story telling in Malayalam mystifies me , as does the space that I contextualise in my poem ...I like the picturesque and bizarre all at once ...while I like to read and teach Murakami ...I oil paint, the themes that I draw on being picturesque. I have engaged quite a bit with the genre of Creative Non fiction teaching it to young adults and doing research around it. My areas of research interest are cultural memory studies and Spatiality .
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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 7 of the Zabaan-e-aam.
It's almost summers in Delhi and the temperatures are rising. While the mercury's rising, you can chill and relax as we take you along a nostalgia lane to childhood of the 1990s kids (and the earlier generation too). In this podcast I have shared Akhil Katyal's poems on power cuts, visiting the lover's neighborhood, Forgiveness and History. Akhil is a famous contemporary Indian poet. His poetry talks about our reality without the twists and turns of complexity. I have picked these 4 simple poems that take us back in time and also reflect on what is happening around us.
Akhil Katyal
Akhil Katyal is a poet, translator, a teacher and a queer activist – and one of the most influential voices in alternative poetry, especially among younger readers. His first poetry book, Night Charge Extra, was shortlisted for the Muse India Satish Verma Young Writer Award, and his second book of poems How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross won the Editor’s Choice Award from The Great Indian Poetry Collective. (Scroll.in - https://scroll.in/article/1032894/the-poetic-and-the-political-has-to-go-together-akhil-katyal-on-reading-and-writing-poetry)
Poems in this podcast:
Dekho and Itihaas - from the poet's Instagram
Forgiveness - https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.scroll.in/article/1032894/the-poetic-and-the-political-has-to-go-together-akhil-katyal-on-reading-and-writing-poetry
On One of Those Long Walks - Indian Literature, Vol. 66, no. 5-6 (Sep-Dec 2022)
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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 6 of the Zabaan-e-aam.
It's the month of love and we are here with a love poem on Valentine's Day. Poetry is the best way to express your love. Share this poem with people you love - your friends, family and followers.
Dr. Pallavi has written Teevr Anubhuti in Hindi and translated it into English. Listen to both on our podcast. If you translate, Dr. Pallavi has also shared notes on her translation towards the end. Listen to this episode to dive into emotions of love. A special heartfelt poem for our listeners.
Pallavi's Instagram: @whatpallavisaid
Twitter: @whatpallavisaid
Dr Pallavi Narayan has authored Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City (2022) and edited Singapore at Home: Life across Lines (2021). She has worked in academia and book publishing in Singapore and India. Currently she is Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University and Director, Ahmedabad Writing Programme.
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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 5 of the Zabaan-e-aam.
Presenting a poem in Bengali on our podcast by S. Rupsha Mitra, who is reciting her poem 'Portrait of Woman' in Bengali and English.
Rupsha's website: www.srupshapoetry.com
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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 4 of Zabaan-e-aam.
I have translated some diary entries from Atef Abu Saif's book The Drone Eats with Me. The book records the 2014 bombing of Gaza. The bits I have translated talk about Ramzan and a usual day in Gaza while it is bombing outside.
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Welcome to a new episode of Zabaan-e-aam!
Today we have Raghunath J along with us who will be sharing a poem in Telugu by Kalekuri Prasad with us. He has also translated the poem into English. He will be reading the English translation after the original Telugu poem.
Through out history, many artists have fought back oppression through their art. Today we will learn about such an artist who weaved poetry as a weapon against caste atrocities in erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh. His name was Kalekuri Prasad, a Dalit poet, writer, journalist and translator. Unlike privileged caste poets who spoke of revolution from a theoretical understanding, Prasad saw from close quarters what caste oppression can do. One of his friends was a Dalit man who was murdered for the crime of being in a consensual relationship with an upper-caste woman. Seeing that atrocity up close, Prasad puts himself in his friend's shoes and imagines his last words in this poem. I will be reading the Telugu original first and then my English translation.
About Raghu
Raghunath J is a professional translator between the languages English and Telugu. He can be reached at his Twitter handle roamingtelugu.
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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 2 of Zabaan-e-aam. As promised, we have our first guest, Ashish Gaur, who has joined us with his two poems in Hindi 'Ab Chalta Hun' and 'Prem'.
Ashish's podcast and other details
Insta Handle: https://instagram.com/rockfordashish?igshid=NzZlODBkYWE4Ng%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Blog Link: https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/650184745400084003
Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/rockfordashish
Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/6lgLeVQ995MoLPbvT8SvCE
Book Availability Link: https://www.amazon.in/Sard-Shab-Sulagte-Khwaab-Ashish/dp/9389763274
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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 1 of Zabaan-e-aam.
Our podcast Zabaan-e-aam is back with a new season and we are here with a new bag full of stories and poems. In this season, we have a lot of guests who will be joining us to bring along flavours from various parts of India.
Wordsworth was a British poet who wrote in the 18th century when industrialization had started. While working in the city, he missed the natural surroundings. He wrote this poem in 1798, when he went to Tintern Abbey near the river Wye. I have translated this poem into Punjabi.
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'Dard di Raunaq' is a Punjabi poem from Nadeem Aslam's book Maps for Lost Lovers.
Dard di Raunaq is an oxymoron because 'dard' means pain and 'raunaq' is generally associated with festivities. The writer Abid here is glorifying the pain of separation by spelling out the address of loneliness. The last sentence is 'betha dard di raunaq layi hai'. He is celebrating the pain of love. What magnificent lines!
Though the author does not provide the full name of the poet but this seems to be written by Abid Tamimi.
Do you also believe there is an address for loneliness in all of us? Does 'Dard di Raunaq' phrase excite you? Tell us in the comments.
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In this excerpt, Jerry Pinto talks about his mother and depression. He paints two contrasting worlds to describe how a happy scenery fades into a gloomy one when his mother slips into depression for days. It's fascinating to hear the contrasts. Dive in! Happy listening. 😊
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