Dr. Shadab Ahmed

Author / Poet / Translator / Transliterator / Head & Neck Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon
Author / Poet / Translator / Transliterator / Head & Neck Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon

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 LiteratureRead More...


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Randy ‘O Dandy

Books by Dr. Shadab Ahmed

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

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Befarmaid

Books by Dr. Shadab Ahmed

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

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Mashuq - E - Jaan

Books by Dr. Shadab Ahmed

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

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Distilled Musings

Books by Dr. Shadab Ahmed, Dr. Malwiika Sisodiya

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

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La Siesta

Books by DR. SHADAB AHMED

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

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Bebakhshid

Books by Dr. Shadab Ahmed

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

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A Quatrain of Moods

Books by Dr. Shadab Ahmed, Dr. Mallwika Sisodiya

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

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