Presenting Ghani Kashmiri to the world
Title: The Captured Gazelle: The Poems of Ghani Kashmiri Trans: Mufti Mudasir and Nusrat Bazaz. Introduction: Mufti Mudasir Penguin Classics, June 2013. _________________________________ Every moment it seeks to slip from the mind’s nook. Fresh poetic meaning is a gazelle to be captured. (Ghani Kashmiri) Kashmir has recently been honoured by the advent of brilliant fiction writers and now we have brilliant scholars writing for international audience. It is great news to learn that as renowned a publishing house as Penguin has published an English translation of Kashmir's foremost Persian poet and one of its cultural icons Ghani Kashmiri in its highly acclaimed list, Penguin Classics. For the first time Ghani has been translated into English by the Kashmiris making his poetry a...