https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article9256.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article9256.html 2020-03-24T08:15:58Z text/html en Syeda Hameed <p>TRIBUTE <br class='autobr' /> Woh dekha jaye kab ye zulm dekha jaaye hai mujh se <br class='autobr' /> (How shall I bear to see this, this injustice) <br class='autobr' /> Ghalib* <br class='autobr' /> Who was he? <br class='autobr' /> Statesman poet writer ornithologist visionary? <br class='autobr' /> His tall frame <br class='autobr' /> Strode across South Asia <br class='autobr' /> Rose to pinnacle of power <br class='autobr' /> Rose and rose <br class='autobr' /> Then easily gently <br class='autobr' /> Let the power go into the void. <br class='autobr' /> Soldier for peace <br class='autobr' /> I saw him in halls and streets <br class='autobr' /> Of Lahore Delhi Karachi Kolkata Bangalore <br class='autobr' /> Amidst women and men who <br class='autobr' /> With banners and songs <br class='autobr' /> Asserted the (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique115.html" rel="directory">2020</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article8055.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article8055.html 2018-06-30T16:16:25Z text/html en Syeda Hameed <p>It was 22 years ago on August 14, 1996 when I accompanied Nikhil Chakravartty in a delegation of Citizens for Democracy led by Kuldip Nayar to the Indo-Pakistan border post to light candles to commemorate the Pakistan-India People-to People Mission. It was also the 50th year of independence. Some elders among us recalled August 15, 1947, the day of freedom. With palpable sadness they remembered the killings unleashed on both sides. In the article Nikhil wrote when he returned, he spoke of (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique113.html" rel="directory">2018</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article782.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article782.html 2008-06-30T14:47:25Z text/html en Syeda Hameed <p>These times when life's mad rush <br class='autobr' /> – Overtakes our days, inverts our rights <br class='autobr' /> – Your memory places a soothing palm <br class='autobr' /> – On my fevered brow. <br class='autobr' /> I recall <br class='autobr' /> – You walking slowly <br class='autobr' /> – To light a candle at the last post <br class='autobr' /> – Separating India from Pakistan. <br class='autobr' /> I recall <br class='autobr' /> – You watching with bemused disdain <br class='autobr' /> – Hate filled postures, martial clip clop <br class='autobr' /> – Of Pakistan Rangers and Border Security Force. <br class='autobr' /> I piece together the rest. <br class='autobr' /> Returning to your room late at night <br class='autobr' /> – You lift your ink-filled pen <br class='autobr' /> – Recalling (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique68.html" rel="directory">June 28, 2008</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article506.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article506.html 2007-12-25T22:15:40Z text/html en Syeda Hameed <p>[(WOMEN'S WORLD <br class='autobr' /> The following is the Second Sumitra Chishti Memorial Lecture delivered in New Delhi (March 2, 2007).)] <br class='autobr' /> It is an honour to stand here before you today to deliver the Sumitra Chishti Memorial Lecture. <br class='autobr' /> Tribute to the memory of Sumitraji <br class='autobr' /> ‘We learn from history how many a deadly lion has emerged from the harem and how many hennaed hands have held the reigns of kingdoms… And how many daughters, educated by wealth and cultured by poverty, have become heads of the harem and (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique45.html" rel="directory">December 22, 2007 - Annual Number 2007</a>