Please provide alternative words (that is, synonyms or partial synonyms) for the following and designate the source language (if known). Now, let’s test your grasp of register, which I’ve been discussing for the past three blogs. (yah kis iraade se ghar se nikal rahi hai havaa) What intention is this, with which the wind emerges from the house (parinde sehme hue hain darakht khauf zadaa) (yah kis ke qatl pe ab haath mal rahi hai havaa)īirds frozen in fright, trees bent in terror Whose murder is this, at which the wind wring its hands (shareek ho gayi saazish me kis ke kehne par) (yah kis ke khauf se chehraa badal rahi hai havaa) What fear is this that paints the wind a different face (yah kaun baag me khanjar badast phirtaa hai) Who is this that roams the grove, dagger in hand (yah kaisi aag hai jis me pighal rahi hai havaa) (sulag rahaa hai meraa sheher, jal rahi hai havaa)
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Smoldering is my city, burning is the wind The following is a poem from her collection entitled “ इंकार/Inkaar” ( Refusal or Denial), published in 1990:
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Image by anoldent on Flickr, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Sadly, she passed away unexpectedly while driving to work in 1994 in Islamabad the street on which she died has since been named after her. Her printed words insist on the rich personhood of women and others who find themselves marginalized from society. Although seemingly trivial, her inclusion of the word “लड़की/larkee” (girl) in many of her poems and her use of the feminine, first-person pronoun were revolutionary at the time, as these words insisted on the importance of the female perspective in a poetic universe that made little mention of such phenomena, preferring to designate the “aashiq” (आशिक़ or lover) and “maashuq” (माशूक़ or beloved) as male or gender-less. Image by Chris Sorge on Flickr, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0Ī highly educated woman with two Master’s degrees in English Literature and Linguistics, she is remembered for her subtle, meticulous verse and, perhaps most importantly, her contribution of the female voice and experience to a literary world almost exclusively inhabited by male writers and dominated by male experience.