Publisher's Synopsis
The book contains Poetic Translations of a distinguished Urdu Poet Zahid Abrol's Nazams & Ghazals into English by a celebrated English Poet Dr. Lalit Mohan Sharma (Retd. Principal). The poems have been classified into five parts on the basis of various aspects of human life viz. The Diary of an Unemployed, Love seeketh not, Life is real ! Life is earnest, A Drenched Page and Ghazals. The poem "A Three-Step Journey" is about the first three steps which a child takes when he/she learns to walk. The first two steps are claimed by the parents as their own and they extend their claim over the 'third' also through their wish for fulfilment of their own dreams by the child, thus leaving nothing for the child for his own life or his own dreams. The Ghazals, the most difficult part of Urdu Poetry for the purpose of translation, have been translated with the utmost care neither compromising with the creative style of English Poetry nor allowing any apple to fall far from the tree i.e. the original text, viz.
Pamper not this your melancholy
It can annihilate you;A lion kept as a pet, if hungry,
Can devour the master tooIt is dour compulsions that decree
And deny him assertion, for
The water boiling in the vessel can
Also quell the fire below ........
About the Author: Zahid Abrol (Original Name: Vijay Kumar Abrol) a distinguished and popular Urdu Poet, having done M.Sc.(Hons) in Physics, and retired as Senior Manager of Punjab National Bank has authored a number of books in Urdu Poetry (Nazms & Ghazals). His poetic translations of Punjabi verses of a thirteenth century Sufi Poet Sheikh Farid into Urdu titled "Faridnama" has been acclaimed worldwide and its second edition has also been published in 2020.
About the Translator: Lalit Mohan Sharma, a celebrated English Poet, author of five books of English Poetry and a large number of Research Publications has served as Principal in various Govt. Colleges of Himachal Pradesh. His creative skills have kept the spirit of English poetics alive while keeping his poetic translations very close to the original Urdu verse.
