Gulzar
Poet
1934-08-18
Books by Gulzar
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100 lyrics
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Jiya Jale
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Actually ... I Met Them
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Quotes by Gulzar
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I had spent the dayfriendless, lonely and sad,a stranger to myself.After drowning the dayon the sea shore,I walked backto my empty houseon the deserted street.The momentI opened the door,the book on my tableflipped its pagesand said:Friend,Where were youfor so long?
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I had spent the dayfriendless, lonely and sad,a stranger to myself.After drowning the dayon the sea shore,I walked backto my empty houseon the deserted street.The momentI opened the door,the book on my tableflipped its pagesand said:Friend,Where were youfor so long?
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I am a greedy poet. I keep munching life all the time. Sweet, sour and bitter moments.
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Delhi has statues and busts of so many politicians. But what about our artistes?
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Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.
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I had written the song 'aaza aaza Shamiyane ke tale... ' for Ghai's film 'Yuvvraj' but he felt the song did not suit his film and Rahman suggested that the track should be used in 'Slumdog' and it fitted well with the movie.
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Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.
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It's always humbling and thrilling to be appreciated.
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My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.
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When you shake mercury it keeps trembling until it reaches a point when it stops. When you get me started on Partition, that is how I am. It goes back and keeps shaking me up, on and on.
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I can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.
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I have translated Bengali poets such as Subhash Mukhopadhyay and Sunil Gangopadhyay before. These were published by Hindi and Urdu magazines. But to take on Tagore's work is no easy task.
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I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.
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Being master of Urdu doesn't interest me, being part of the global society does, breathing hope into that society matters to me.
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Since my schooldays, I've read the translations of Bengali writers. I'm Punjabi, but I read a lot of Bengali and Urdu literature.
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I do play tennis in shorts, I have driven across the length and breadth of the country from Khardung La pass to Kanyakumari in my beloved Ambassador car, and I did compile my 100 Lyrics book, inspired by Lyrics by Sting. I don't subscribe to any definition of an Urdu poet.
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When I write a poem, I do not have to worry about using a higher Urdu vocabulary because I know the reader knows Urdu well.
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Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live in a distraction.
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When you find something that makes you feel that only you can do it and nobody else, then you automatically want to do it.
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