Gulzar to Release New Collection of Poetry on India-Pakistan Partition
Translated by Rakhshanda Jalil, this compilation marks 70 years of India's Independence. Born in Dina (now in Pakistan), Gulzar writes in the poem 'Zero Line': "... I am back at the Zero Line/My shadow whispers from behind me,/'When you give up this body/Come back to your home/Your birthplace, your motherland'."