For English Translation and Roman Script, please keep on scrolling down. Thanks! In a corner of a bookshop Evening was baron and the city banal the crowd submissive and the walk incurious I stopped for a while In a corner… Read More »Kitab Ki Dukan Per
Truth, my beloved! Truth, my beloved! let us be together like roses of dream and thorns of reality let us sit together by the fireplace of life and throw perception into flames, so avid and blacken the body with ashes… Read More »Truth, my beloved!
listen to ‘STILL ALIVE! AN URDU POEM WITH RENDITION. A TRIBUTE TO MALALA YOUSUFZAI’ on audioBoom Fourteen-year-old blogger Malala was shot point-blank on head by Taliban for supporting girls’ education. She is now recovering in hospital! For English translation and… Read More »Malala`s message to her assailant, Still alive!
Stains of blood on my school bag are no different than the drops of blood circulating in your body My each breath has the perfume of desire to be free And it is no different than perfume of freedom in… Read More »A moment of decision, An Urdu Poem with English translation FAISLAY KI GHARI, written & translated by Shariq Ali
If you wish to listen and enjoy the recitation with rendition of this poem in Urdu/Hindi, please click the link below. Listening time is 3 minutes and 16 seconds. listen to ‘ چا ے کی میز پر Over a cup… Read More »چا ے کی میز پرOver a cup of tea! Urdu Poem by Shariq Ali
I was the integral part of a long queue in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum and the entrance was not open yet. This long and curved line had all the colours and shapes of ages and sizes with multi-linguistic… Read More »From Louvre museum, Paris to Dhan Mondi, Bangladesh, in search of beauty & justice!
If you wish to listen and enjoy the recitation with rendition of this poem by the poet, please click the link below. Listening time is 3 minutes and 20 seconds. Meherban Shaam-e-Gul with Rendition 220512 Acknowledgement: The background music for this… Read More »Meherban Shaam-e-Gul, An Urdu Poem by Shariq Ali
The brave journey of Greg Healey Narration by: Shariq Ali Greg was alone in his temporarily erected tent in the first base camp to Mount Everest. He was still awake that night in his sleeping bag which was placed higher… Read More »A passion to give the Mount Everest
I was woken up suddenly by a knock at the door of my cottage in Jinja, a small town close to the source of river Nile and not far from the shores of lake Victoria. It’s about seventy-five kilometres from… Read More »Along the Nile, in search of a civilised world By Shariq Ali
“Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open” This 14 minutes Urdu podcast explores the Sufi Way of Jalaluddin Rumi and his spiritual master Shams Tabrizi Please click below to listen Rumi, the whirling dancer… Read More »Rumi, the dervish dancer, Urdu/Hindi Audio Podcast about Jalaluddin Rumi