Although Ali Khamenei was an avid reader, well versed in works such as The Divine Comedy, Shahnameh,Gulistan, the poetry of Rumi, and One Thousand and One Nights, he regarded Les Miserables by Victor Hugo as an achievement in itself, even describing it as a miracle in the history of the novel and a profound book of love and feeling. His admiration suggests that he saw literature not merely as aesthetic expression but as moral pedagogy.
A poignant poem, stressing on the meaninglessness of the Palestinian lives, in life or afterlife, using the untimely deaths of two minors Zeinab & Khadija.
It is an address to 2025 Nobel Prize winner Palestinian-American Omar Yaghi. The poet questions if his discovery has any impact on his land and its people.
A satirical poem focusing on the plight of the patients in Indore hospital where 'rats swarmed like humans on new born babies.'
It's a moving poem. It arrests the unquenchable thirst of the poet to measure the pain of the world using some notable historical and mythical figures with poetic precision.
It's a powerful poem that attests to the suffering of the Gaza by comparing Gaza genocide to Auschwitz holocaust through the eyes of Theodor W. Adorno. It captures unspeakable pains of the Palestinians through compelling images.
Should people eat sand or clay out of hunger?
In our stories,
grandmothers have enough anecdotes
in which mothers would put stones in a boiling pot
the sound would act as lullaby
for screaming bellies