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Maaz Bin Bilal, "Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan" (India Penguin Classics, 2022)

New Books in Poetry

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Translating Ralip's Poetry

Ralip for me remains the toughest poet to translate. I've translated other prose writers, Mantu and other modern ones also. But poetry remains I think the toughest and most interesting challenge also. Perhaps for that I will read one verse not from temple lamp but from a translation of an Uddhu Hazal of his that I have done and included in my first book Hazalamah.

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