THROUGH HIS GAZE
Grazia|April 2021
In a rare interview, lyricist and author, Gulzar talks about his ambitious new project, which he completed over nine years
ARMAN KHAN
THROUGH HIS GAZE

A poet’s journey is reflective of the ages of their time, with all its mores and hues. And rightly so, poetry seeks to reflect the same – it is often a bolder, more explicit mirror of the truths of any age as compared to plain fiction.

Gulzar’s A Poem a Day (which involved selecting, translating, and compiling poetry in over 34 languages across India over a staggering period of nine years) reflects the sensibilities and choices that have shaped him to be the master we know today. “My only request to the readers,” he says, gently, on a warm Spring afternoon over an extensive Zoom call, “was that they tolerate my choice. After all, I was compiling these poems based on the poems that have been essential to my being a poet in the first place.”

Gulzar credits AJ Thomas, editor of Sahitya Akademi’s Indian Literature, for helping him scour through reams of archival poems in different languages. While Gulzar’s editor, Udayan Mitra, helped him structure the book around the moods of different years. And that the CEO of HarperCollins, Ananth Padmanabhan, took on the responsibility of publishing this ambitious project in the first place, is heartening to the poet.

この記事は Grazia の April 2021 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。

この記事は Grazia の April 2021 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。

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