POETRY

— POEM 𝒃𝒚 Jayant Parmar

Our Hands

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You poured

Insults,

like molten lead in our ears.

The stone targets our head

and the cactus hedge

emerges from our chests,

in our bones sea of acid.

O great foes,

shoot us,

our hands

are bound

on our backs.

….

(Translated from Gujrati by Dr. G.K.Vankar)

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  • Jayant Parmar, born on 11 October 1954, a well-known Indian Urdu language poet, artist and calligrapher, writes both in Urdu and Gujarati. He is known for raising Dalit issues in his poetry. Parmar was born in a poor family. Since he had developed an appreciation and taste for Urdu poetry while living in the walled city area of Ahmadabad, he taught himself Urdu from a language learning guide at the age 30 after.Parmar has published seven collections of Urdu poems: “𝘈𝘶𝘳” (1999), “𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭 𝘈𝘶𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘳𝘪 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘮𝘦𝘪𝘯” (2006), “𝘔𝘢𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘥” (2007), “𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘢𝘭” (2010), “𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘮 𝘠𝘢𝘢𝘯𝘪” (2013), “𝘎𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪 𝘒𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘱𝘯𝘦”, (2016) and “𝘕𝘶𝘲𝘵𝘢 𝘈𝘶𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘳𝘪 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘮𝘦𝘪𝘯” (2019). He is recipient of Sahitya Academi Award, 2009 for his book “𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭 𝘈𝘶𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘳𝘪 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘮𝘦𝘪𝘯”, Bhasha Bharti Samman, 2006 for “𝘈𝘶𝘳”, Gujarat Sahitya Academi Award, Bhartiya Dalit Sahitya Academi (2002) and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Jeevan Gaurav Puraskaar (2020) etc. His works has been translated into Hindi, English, Punjabi, Assami, Telugu, Bangla, Kashmiri, Tamil, Kannada, Malyalam, Nepali, Marathi and also in various other languages like Slovenian and Spanish

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  • Born in 1953, Dr. G. K. Vankar is a Professor of Psychiatry at a Medical College in Gujarat. He is translator and blogger. He has translated extensively Gujarati Dalit Literature .He has also translated several poems and short stories from other Indian languages, especially Dalit Literature, in Gujarati. Dr. G. K. Vankar has published translations Jayant Parmar’s Urdu poetry in English titled ‘”Inkpot and other poems”, 2011.

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Saleem Shahzad
5 months ago

Beautiful poem

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