Militarization & Talibanization -- Resistance Literature From Pakistan
Loving Guy
"Like the journalistic atmosphere, the situation of the Pakistani
literati is also under the influence of the secret agencies. Iftikhar
Arifs (poets) and Fakhar Zamans (fiction writers) are enjoying perks
and privileges of their government jobs. Whenever needed they recycle
the poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Habib Jalib of the gone century...
(They don't know the 21st century needs cyber age writers)... The poor
common writers, especially poets, keep silent out of fear... no one
dares to write about the tyranny of the generals.” [The Terrorland
blogs]
Who says resistance literature has died in Pakistan? No, it is still
alive. Here are 25 poem of Habib Sulemani, who is resisting the
ongoing militarization and Talibanization in Pakistan. His resistance
poetry has equally attracted the cyber generation and world at large.
Headlines of the poems:
The Kakul Syndrome
The Hawker Revolution — Arab world sings for democracy
A slap in the face of Indian democracy
A blasphemy case in the court of God
Jesus and Hussain
A tyrant has neither life nor a burial place in the changed world!
The Margalla Sunset — Happy New Year 2011
An ode to my love
Human Rights Day: how helpless God is today!
God is a weapon—they worship death (1)
Truth is at war with lies (2)
I write for the oppressed (3)
Intellectual cleansing of liberals (4)
Don’t expect any impartial inquiry... (5)
Desi butchers on way to The Hague (6)
Liberty’s knocking at our door (7)
The cannibals
Intellectual faculties
Liberal values can’t die
Media is battleground
Generals and Politicians
What Dr. Goebbels didn’t tell Hitler
Returning home as dead bodies
Mercedes-Benz and BMW
Universal Patriotism
Please, click on the link to read the poems: http://theterrorland.blogspot.
com