Barzakh
A poignant poem, stressing on the meaninglessness of the Palestinian lives, in life or afterlife, using the untimely deaths of two minors Zeinab & Khadija.
Rashid Ali
I teach Media Studies at Central University of Jammu.
Omar Yaghi
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.
The Pied Piper of Indore
A satirical poem focusing on the plight of the patients in Indore hospital where 'rats swarmed like humans on new born babies.'
The Measure of Pain
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.
Adorno in Gaza
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.
Sand-Eating Humans: A Chronicle of Hunger
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