Gestures: an anthology of South Asian poetry/
edited by K. Satchidanandan.
- New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi, 1996.
- 308 p. ; 22 cm.
BANGLADESH -- Ahsan Habib: So Vast is the Sea -- The Kashmir Giri -- Al Mahmud: The Pitcher of Time -- Nature -- Asad Chowdhury: Rights of the Tiger -- Lamentation -- Farrukh Ahmed: The Dahuk -- Night at Kanchrapara -- Jasim Uddin: First Love -- The Chariot of Dhamrai -- Mohammad Nurul Huda: Heads -- White Paper on Bachelorhood -- Nirmalendu Goon: Guest of Honour -- Firearm -- Rafiq Azad: Those Armed Handsome Men -- A Young Woodcutter Speaks Out -- Shaheed Quaderi: The Deluge -- A Man in Rain -- Shamsur Rahman: Mother-- My Kind of Pride -- Syed Ali Ahsan: My East Bengal -- Solitude --
INDIA --A.K. Ramanujan: Prayers to Lord Murugan -- Ajanta: Computer Pictures -- Akhtar-ul Iman: Confidence -- Creation -- An Evening with a Black-and-white Feathered Bird -- Amrita Pritam: The First Religion-- The Conspiracy of Silence -- My Address -- Arun Kolhatkar: Song of the Flour Mill -- A Prostitute on a Pilgrimage -- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra: Genealogy -- Canticle For My Son -- Ayyappa Paniker: Horse Play -- Passage to America --
MALDIVES -- Abdulla Fahumy Didi: The Worthlessness of this World -- Abdulla Sadiq: Impossible! -- I Saw It In My Dream --
NEPAL -- Basu Shashi: One Such Flower is Needed --Bhupi Sherchan: The Bell Tower --
PAKISTAN -- Ahmad Faraz: Return 240 -- You And I -- Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi: Mist --
SRILANKA -- Folk Poem: Yasodhara's Lament --G.B. Senanayake: Killing One's God --
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