By Arts & Culture, Poetry June 6, 2013

Body

Cold islands of clouds
float in the sky.
The fire red horizon
melts into the stream.

Space stretches itself.

Sunk in your arms,
I float free.
A hundred bodies
have flown out of me.

I am unhooked
from the burden of the body.

 

 

(Translated from Urdu by Oriya poet, Dr. JP Das)

Gulzar is a poet above all things. He started his career as a lyricist in the 1963 film Bandini and worked with many music directors including R. D. Burman, Salil Choudhury, Vishal Bhardwaj and A. R. Rahman. He directed films such as Aandhi and Mausam and TV series during the 1970s and 1980s. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award in India, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award—the highest award in Indian cinema. He has won several Indian National Film Awards, Filmfare Awards, one Academy Award and one Grammy Award.

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