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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalDr. Shadab Ahmed is a sapiophile and bibliophile, and is a scholar of Indian, Oriental, Mandarin and European Medieval and Modernist Poetry. His extra-academic interest bridges across Bards, Rhymes, Hymns, Epics, Odes, Elegies, Zajals, Poesies, Ballads, Sonnets, Quatrains, Verses, Couplets, Qasidehs, Muwashshahs, Masnawis, Haikus, Limericks and Runes. His favorite genres of poetry are Norse, Hebrew, European, Mughal, Russian, Iberian, Latin-Modernism, Metaphysical, Alhambra, Mandarin, Oriental, Turkish, Persian, Indian, Baltic and Castilian. His distinctive interest lies in European LiteratureRead More...
Dr. Shadab Ahmed is a sapiophile and bibliophile, and is a scholar of Indian, Oriental, Mandarin and European Medieval and Modernist Poetry. His extra-academic interest bridges across Bards, Rhymes, Hymns, Epics, Odes, Elegies, Zajals, Poesies, Ballads, Sonnets, Quatrains, Verses, Couplets, Qasidehs, Muwashshahs, Masnawis, Haikus, Limericks and Runes. His favorite genres of poetry are Norse, Hebrew, European, Mughal, Russian, Iberian, Latin-Modernism, Metaphysical, Alhambra, Mandarin, Oriental, Turkish, Persian, Indian, Baltic and Castilian. His distinctive interest lies in European Literature and Poetry (covering Jacobean Era, Elizabethan Era, Edwardian Era, Georgian Era, Stuart and Caroline Eras, Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Eras) and Mandarin Poetry encompassing Ming, Yuan, Song and Tang dynasties. He is the author of 5 published non-pedagogical books related to World Poetry, with several others under progress. He devotes his free time maniacally to reading, understanding and translating various canonical poetry in texts and their interpretation, along with their “Pre-Text” in History and “Con-Text” in contemporary times and age.
Dr. Shadab Ahmed, MDS
Ranking and Accreditation Officer
Vinayaka Mission’s Sankarachariyar Dental College
Vinayaka Mission’s Research Foundation (Deemed University)
Salem, Tamil Nadu, India
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A Bardic, Historical and Colonial account of the Rajputs and Rajputana from their humble origin as Aryans to getting Vedantized as Kshatriyas to become the embellished militant arm of the Brahmanical Creed to the decline of Brahmanism to Buddhism and the subsequent resurgent Neo-Rajput Revival of Brahmanism leading to the forging of the Modern Hindu System to the Rajputization of Aryans as a royal race leading to the fierce En-Rajputment of the Great Indian No
A Bardic, Historical and Colonial account of the Rajputs and Rajputana from their humble origin as Aryans to getting Vedantized as Kshatriyas to become the embellished militant arm of the Brahmanical Creed to the decline of Brahmanism to Buddhism and the subsequent resurgent Neo-Rajput Revival of Brahmanism leading to the forging of the Modern Hindu System to the Rajputization of Aryans as a royal race leading to the fierce En-Rajputment of the Great Indian Northern Plains to being displaced and decimated as the Rulers of India by the feral sons of the élan of the Prophet of Islam following the raid, conquest and invasion of India by the Arabs, Ghors, Ghaznavids, Timurids, Seljuk Turks, Tartars, Pashtuns and Mughals to the Rajput-Mughal socio-political-military alliance punishing the dissidents and malcontents in the battlefields of Tarain, Panipat, Khanwa, Haldighati to being over lorded by the Company to save the Company's Honor in the Sepoy Mutiny to be colonized by The British Raj and The British Empire with their chivalry and code of honor unbroken to be drafted into the Queen Empress of India's sovereign forces and raising the Union Jack over the deserts of Sidi Barrani, mountains and slopes of Kissoue and Tel Kissoue, the barren Persian highlands at Khushab and the incessant plains of Jebel Madani in Syria - straight from the princely Kingdoms, Durbars, Forts, Garrisons, Chancery and Justiciary in the Devanagari, Naskhi, Marwari, Brajbhasha and Latin English scripts.
A Bardic, Historical and Colonial account of the Rajputs and Rajputana from their humble origin as Aryans to getting Vedantized as Kshatriyas to become the embellished militant arm of the Brahmanical Creed to the decline of Brahmanism to Buddhism and the subsequent resurgent Neo-Rajput Revival of Brahmanism leading to the forging of the Modern Hindu System to the Rajputization of Aryans as a royal race leading to the fierce En-Rajputment of the Great Indian No
A Bardic, Historical and Colonial account of the Rajputs and Rajputana from their humble origin as Aryans to getting Vedantized as Kshatriyas to become the embellished militant arm of the Brahmanical Creed to the decline of Brahmanism to Buddhism and the subsequent resurgent Neo-Rajput Revival of Brahmanism leading to the forging of the Modern Hindu System to the Rajputization of Aryans as a royal race leading to the fierce En-Rajputment of the Great Indian Northern Plains to being displaced and decimated as the Rulers of India by the feral sons of the élan of the Prophet of Islam following the raid, conquest and invasion of India by the Arabs, Ghors, Ghaznavids, Timurids, Seljuk Turks, Tartars, Pashtuns and Mughals to the Rajput-Mughal socio-political-military alliance punishing the dissidents and malcontents in the battlefields of Tarain, Panipat, Khanwa, Haldighati to being over lorded by the Company to save the Company's Honor in the Sepoy Mutiny to be colonized by The British Raj and The British Empire with their chivalry and code of honor unbroken to be drafted into the Queen Empress of India's sovereign forces and raising the Union Jack over the deserts of Sidi Barrani, mountains and slopes of Kissoue and Tel Kissoue, the barren Persian highlands at Khushab and the incessant plains of Jebel Madani in Syria - straight from the princely Kingdoms, Durbars, Forts, Garrisons, Chancery and Justiciary in the Devanagari, Naskhi, Marwari, Brajbhasha and Latin English scripts.
Heartbreak has been dissected thoroughly with extraordinary precision by both the Scientific Community and the Literary Community. The Psychologists and Scientists say that Heartbreak is an inextinguishable and devastating addiction to another person. The modern Poet and Literarist cogitates Heartbreak as a sexuality-coupled distress and desolation. Though there are innumerable ways to prove Love and Heartbreak, stricto sensu, the feeling of the wretchedness i
Heartbreak has been dissected thoroughly with extraordinary precision by both the Scientific Community and the Literary Community. The Psychologists and Scientists say that Heartbreak is an inextinguishable and devastating addiction to another person. The modern Poet and Literarist cogitates Heartbreak as a sexuality-coupled distress and desolation. Though there are innumerable ways to prove Love and Heartbreak, stricto sensu, the feeling of the wretchedness in Heartbreak is best felt through Poetry, Lyrics & Rhymes. Hence, presented in this book are Quatrains versified in the form of hyperbole, climax, personification, repetition, polysyndeton, asyndeton, similie, antithesis and anticlimactic suaveness.
This volume of historical Indian-Perso-Arabic-Ottoman Turkish Literature, in the form of raunchy, ribald and salacious ballads, verses, couplets & doggerels is conceived for a readership whose second language is English. It is intended for national and international circulation as a convenient instrument for the spread of bygone Indo-Perso-Arabic-Turkish poetic thought and process. This will explain the lack of a parallel native text and the restriction of sel
This volume of historical Indian-Perso-Arabic-Ottoman Turkish Literature, in the form of raunchy, ribald and salacious ballads, verses, couplets & doggerels is conceived for a readership whose second language is English. It is intended for national and international circulation as a convenient instrument for the spread of bygone Indo-Perso-Arabic-Turkish poetic thought and process. This will explain the lack of a parallel native text and the restriction of selected poets/authors and their works. The purpose of this book is to raise awareness about the richness, profoundness and impact of Indo-Perso-Arabic - Turkish Literature on the belletristic intellectual literary development. The translations and transliterations intended to cross-over three distinct and radical language systems of the world - Sanskrit, Persian and Turkish - into ubiquitous American English, and it is the work of over three years.
India has always been a region of multiple cultures and ethnicities comprising a multifaceted, colorful and genuinely diverse civilization of innumerable peoples, beliefs and languages. The political domination of Muslim dynasties from Central Asia from the Ghaznavid conquests onwards led to "Persian" being grafted into the Indian subcontinent as the official language of governance and high culture. As classical Persian culture fell into abeyance during the Mi
India has always been a region of multiple cultures and ethnicities comprising a multifaceted, colorful and genuinely diverse civilization of innumerable peoples, beliefs and languages. The political domination of Muslim dynasties from Central Asia from the Ghaznavid conquests onwards led to "Persian" being grafted into the Indian subcontinent as the official language of governance and high culture. As classical Persian culture fell into abeyance during the Middle Ages and the Islamic West disintegrated into chaos, India fostered a Persian cultural renaissance of unparalleled literary achievement by émigrés to India as well as by Indians themselves. However, from the beginning of the seventeenth century. "Urdu" began to form around the lower echelons of society as a common tongue to enable communication between the myriad ethnicities of the Mughal Empire, ultimately restricting Persian to a refined language of culture and courtly life in the Mughal court and becoming a vibrant and dynamic language in its own right thus becoming the first literary language with a substantial original contribution from Indians since ancient Sanskrit. Presented in this book are proses, minstrelsy and parnassus straight from the kings emperors, saints, prisoners and outlaws of the Mughal court and jurisdiction, as well as the beau monde and aristocracy of the Mughal India.
Though the territorial world we live in is pretty and glamorizing, it also lacks anything real other than chagrin, monotony and general annoyance. Over centuries and trans-continentally, the deprived and defenestrated human beings have exalted, glorified and revered explosive sexuality, longing and desire in many forms. In the pre-technological era sans automation and mechanics, spiritual poetry and erotic verses has remained two of the most popular forms of d
Though the territorial world we live in is pretty and glamorizing, it also lacks anything real other than chagrin, monotony and general annoyance. Over centuries and trans-continentally, the deprived and defenestrated human beings have exalted, glorified and revered explosive sexuality, longing and desire in many forms. In the pre-technological era sans automation and mechanics, spiritual poetry and erotic verses has remained two of the most popular forms of devotion to the beloved. Eroticism and Mysticism in love often appears confusingly entangled and inextricable. It often becomes hard to discern whether there is erotic love camouflaged under the illusion of mysticism, or there is mystical spiritual love tacitly masquerading as erotic proclivity. In spite of sensual badgering and carnal victimization, the concupiscent poets and poeticules dared to write candidly and canonize their sybaritic love for the beloved. Many of them vanished, engulfed and eclipsed into their beloved. Many of them dispersed, subsumed and merged subconsciously with their demiurge. What remains back is their enthralling and intrepid chronicle of love and longing, desire and affection. Presented in this book are a compendium of translated verses and songs of love & devotion to the “Beloved & the Lover” - across the Indian Heartlands and Persian Frontiers. You will discover that your longings are universal longings, you are not alone.
A Collection of Verses, Bards, Hymns, Poems, Qitahs, Masnawis, Muwashshahs, Sonnets, Zajals and Couplets of famous Rhapsodists and Rhymesters of
their respective eras - spanning the European Courts, Indian Darbars, Irish Taverns, British Pubs, American Diners, Russian Battlefields, Italian Countryside, Persian Winehouses, Mandarin Riverbanks, French Bistros, Spanish Twilights, Australian Deserts and Mid-Eastern Prisons - all unified by the same celebratory
A Collection of Verses, Bards, Hymns, Poems, Qitahs, Masnawis, Muwashshahs, Sonnets, Zajals and Couplets of famous Rhapsodists and Rhymesters of
their respective eras - spanning the European Courts, Indian Darbars, Irish Taverns, British Pubs, American Diners, Russian Battlefields, Italian Countryside, Persian Winehouses, Mandarin Riverbanks, French Bistros, Spanish Twilights, Australian Deserts and Mid-Eastern Prisons - all unified by the same celebratory euphoria and exhilaration of the “Aqua Vitae” which enraptured such critical and unique pieces of art and literature.
With an Introduction to Castilian, Catalan, Galician and Portuguese Literature.
Notable translated works from Spano-Portuguese poets of the Early and Late Middle Ages, the Alhambra poets of the Moorish period, the Romancero poets, the Neologism and Paetrarchanism poetry of the Renaissance Period, the Satire, Neostoicism, and Mythological poetry of the Baroque Period, the poets of the Golden Ag
With an Introduction to Castilian, Catalan, Galician and Portuguese Literature.
Notable translated works from Spano-Portuguese poets of the Early and Late Middle Ages, the Alhambra poets of the Moorish period, the Romancero poets, the Neologism and Paetrarchanism poetry of the Renaissance Period, the Satire, Neostoicism, and Mythological poetry of the Baroque Period, the poets of the Golden Age and Romanticism, the Modernism poets, the Generation of 1927, Poets during the World War II and under General Franco in peacetime, PostFranco and Contemporary Spano-Portuguese Poets - in the form of Epics, Ballads, Verses, Sonnets, Letrillas and Zajals.
From the Love, Prayers, Devotion, Joy and Enigma to the
Laments, Qalandariyat, Sin, Exile and Debauchery of the Persian Qalandars and Mystics.
Selected translated English verses, quatrains, rubai, ghazals, masnawis and qasidehs of Saadi Shirazi,
San’ai, Rudaki, Farrukhi Sistani, Mahsati, Baba Taher, Omar Khayyam, Amir Khusrau, Hafez, Jalal
ud-din Md Rumi, Attar of Nishapur, Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Nezami Ganjavi, Abd’l Rahman Jami,
Nasir Khu
From the Love, Prayers, Devotion, Joy and Enigma to the
Laments, Qalandariyat, Sin, Exile and Debauchery of the Persian Qalandars and Mystics.
Selected translated English verses, quatrains, rubai, ghazals, masnawis and qasidehs of Saadi Shirazi,
San’ai, Rudaki, Farrukhi Sistani, Mahsati, Baba Taher, Omar Khayyam, Amir Khusrau, Hafez, Jalal
ud-din Md Rumi, Attar of Nishapur, Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Nezami Ganjavi, Abd’l Rahman Jami,
Nasir Khusraw, Saib of Tabriz and several Persian masters and Qalandars - spanning eras, courts,
dilapidated wine houses, prisons and millennials compiled into a single Richly-Illustrated Book, from
a variety of sources.
Translations from Sir Richard Francis Burton, Edward Fitzgerald, Coleman Barks, John Moyne, E.H.
Whinfield, Dick Davis, Paul E. Losensky, Lt. Col. H. Wilberforce Clarke, Edward Heron-Allen,
Alfaham Darabandi, Charles Schefler and several other scholars of the Persian Literature.
Re-Live your Persian Dreams!
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
The human mind behaves irrationally at times, driven by love, life and dreams. There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories are full of hearts broken by love, but what really breaks a heart is taking away its dreams – whatever the dream might be. You can rise from anything. You can completely recreate yourself. Nothing is permanent. You are not stuck. You have ch
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
The human mind behaves irrationally at times, driven by love, life and dreams. There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories are full of hearts broken by love, but what really breaks a heart is taking away its dreams – whatever the dream might be. You can rise from anything. You can completely recreate yourself. Nothing is permanent. You are not stuck. You have choices. You can have new thoughts. You can learn something new. You can create new habits. All that matters is that you decide today and never look back. The authors have penned their ordinary hearts out, keeping an extraordinary view of the strange world we dwell in. No quatrain was started with whose end the authors knew. They were discovered in time. The great human life and moods are presented together and adapted in a common language. Enjoy!
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