Dhanak (the rainbow)
By
Jan Nisar Akhtar
Contributor
edited by Shabana Azmi; translated by Sumantra Ghosal
Serial
15487
Publisher
Eka an imprint of Westland Books
Description
xxii, 139 pages
ISBN / ISSN No.
9789386850751
Subject
1. Poem -- Jan Nisar Akhtar; 2. Indian literature; 3. Urdu poetry.
Summay
This is a collection of poems by Jan Nisar Akhtar, one of pioneers of the Progressive Writers’ Movement in India, selected by actor Shabana Azmi, who is his daughter-in-law. A trilingual edition with twenty-five nazms that have endured for seven decades, the books will feature the poems in the Urdu and Hindi scripts as also in translation into English. It comes with a warm and personal foreword by Shabana Azmi in which she speaks about her memory of and interactions with Jan Nisar Akhtar.
Keyword
Poems by Jan Nisar Akhtar.
Accession No.
15487
Category
Literature-Poetry