[Reader-list] Ghalib and the damn Muslim problem

[TaraPrakash]

Very appropriate.

And he must be repeating constantly from his grave

"Hota hai shab-o-roz tamasha mere aage."

Only if he had not offended some regressive Islamists with his unorthodox
and perhaps unislamic deeds ...
"Tujhe ham vali samajhte jo na badakhwar hota."

(we would consider you a religious preacher if you were not a drinker)
Apologies if the translation is not accurate. It's not my forte anyway.
Regards
TaraPrakash
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bain Al Satoor" <bainulsatoor at googlemail.com>
To: <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Ghalib and the damn Muslim problem


> Huye mar ke ham jo ruswa, huye kyun na ghark-e-dariya
> Na kabhi janaaza uthta, na kahin mazaar hota
>
> Ghalib.
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:19 AM, ambarien qadar <ambarien at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm not very sure if we can read what Hali wrote nearly a century back,
>> with the same interpretative lenses today.
>> To me, Hali's piece on Ghalib (quoted in Mahmood's mail) already reads as
>> a ceratin kind of break from the mores of traditional, ritualistic,
>> wahabi
>> Islamic practices that he so brilliantly represented.
>> This rupture is particularly relevant in our times for it reaffirms a
>> poetic possibility of dissent.
>> Moreover, it is Hali's version of how he 'saw' Ghalib. I'm not sure if we
>> can comment on it in essentialist ways. At best, it can provide possible
>> insights into the myriad ways the Poet and his times have been written
>> and
>> understood.
>> The choice actually lies with us- to understand Ghalib through his grief
>> at the plight of the larger muslim community (according to Hali) or
>> through
>> our knowledge of his stunningly syncretic oeuvre...and think about our
>> 'pareshani' or ways of countering it..poetic or otherwise.
>>
>> (No offences meant!)
>> Cheers
>> Ambarien
>>
>>
>>
>>
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