She is the author of Urdu Literary Culture and Vernacular Modernity in the Writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari (2012) and the editor of The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature (2008). Her research interests include translation, literary modernism, intersections between religion and literature, history, and art history. Mehr Farooqi is an associate professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian languages and cultures at the University of Virginia. She received the Fatima Jinnah Medal for Literature from the Government of Punjab in 2006 and the Tamgha-e Imtiaz Award for Literature from the Government of Pakistan in 2008. Her work has appeared in translation in Granta, 112 Pakistan, the Atlanta Review, and Dalkey Archive’s anthology Modern Poetry of Pakistan. She has also edited and translated several anthologies of Urdu poetry. She has authored five books of poetry in Urdu, and her book Pakistani Urdu Verse was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. She was the founder-director of the Gurmani Centre for South Asian Languages and Literature at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Yasmeen Hameed has over thirty years of experience in the fields of education, literature, and art. Translation © 2020 by Mehr Afshan Farooqi.
Have you ever seen the color of pure blood? We’re going to travel across India and traverse through multiple Indian languages - including English, Hindi, Urdu. The physical and spiritual worlds meld in this wide-ranging poem by Yasmeen Hameed.Īnd sniggered at the color of your blood. Host Lakshya Datta invites you listen to Launchora's brand new podcast 'Poetry Darbaar' - an audio-series where you’ll hear the poems, the shayaris, the kavitas, and the poets of India.
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