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  Vilayat

  04.18.05 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  I was watching an old classic with grandparents - Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, possibly the funniest movie ever made. Anyhow, there comes the scene when the villain’s villainous uncle tells everyone that the villian is returning from ‘Vilayat’ in a few days - Vilayat being what I have always taken to be a reference [...]

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  Guzzlin’ Ghazals

  04.10.05 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Post Dinner at a Poetís.
  The moonlight. Mosquitoes. A terrace.
  All getting on with their job. Cigars.
  A suggestion ñ
  - Letís talk in meter.
  - Why donít we talk in ghazal?
  - Thatís fiendish.
  So last night was an improptu moonlit mehfil, poets hurling post-dinner shers at each other.
  A magical night unfortunately unrecorded, a scattered lost homage to Agha Shahid Ali.
  Who wrote English in [...]