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I present a popular monthly TV program called "Khushboo" consisting of poetry and songs for South Asian audiences in the greater Washington Area.
Great books will be written but there would be no readers to read them. Reason: Current generation’s obsession with the social media.
Translation of an Urdu classic Divan-e-Ghalib into American free verse [The Treasure: A Modern Rendition of Ghalib’s Lyrical Love Poetry. 2014. New Delhi: Partridge India.]
Every day when I get up and get to my day’s work.
When I allow myself to think that my contribution will not make a difference.
I admire every living person who speaks with conviction about the urgent need to save the planet from destruction.
Zorba the Greek
No one in particular
Nikos Kazantzakis, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
INDIAN: Divan-e-Ghalib (Mirza Ghalib), Stories (Manto), Gul-e Naghma (Firaq Gorakhpuri), Aag Ka Dariya (Quratulain Haider), Train to Pakistan (Khushwant Singh) WESTERN: To Kill a Mocking Bird (Harper Lee), Fountainhead (Ayn Rand), A Passage to India (EM Forster), Sophie’s Choice (William Styron), As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Bollywood: Shatranj Ke Khilari, Swami, Kaaghaz Ke Phuul, Pyaasa, Veer-Zara Hollywood: The Godfather, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Annie Hall, Sound of Music, Titanic, What if?
The power to eradicate extreme forms of poverty everywhere in the world.
Not ready for Nirvana. Not yet but tried.
When Ashoka was emperor of India and Buddhism was the dominant belief system in India.
To be a good ghazal singer like Jagjit Singh.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My study that faces a very quiet street.
Silence.
What’s new in this work/movie/book?
Think of a dream I had the previous night.
Reading Zen and Taoist texts.
Ghalib told his disciples: Before you start to write poetry, first try to nurture a molten heart (dil-e gudakhta). I would say the same. Also write with the conviction that your work will make a difference.
Surinder Deol was born in India and moved to the United States in 1983 to work for the World Bank in Washington, D.C. His collection of poems, A Moment In The Universe was published in 2006. His book The Treasure: A Modern Rendition of Ghalib’s Lyrical Love Poetry, published in 2014, received critical acclaim from leading academics and Ghalib scholars. Endless Life is his first novel. He lives in Potomac, Maryland.
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