Gazal Quotes

Gibreel, the tuneless soloist, had been cavorting in moonlight as he sang his impromptu gazal, swimming in air, butterfly-stroke, breast-stroke, bunching himself into a ball, spreadeagling himself against the almost-infinity of the almost-dawn, adopting heraldic postures, rampant, couchant, pitting levity against gravity. Now he rolled happily towards the sardonic voice. ‘Ohe, Salad baba, it's you, too good. What-ho, old Chumch.’ At which the other, a fastidious shadow falling headfirst in a grey suit with all the jacket buttons done up, arms by his sides, taking for granted the improbability of the bowler hat on his head, pulled a nickname-hater's face. ‘Hey, Spoono,’ Gibreel yelled, eliciting a second inverted wince, ‘Proper London, bhai! Here we come! Those bastards down there won't know what hit them. Meteor or lightning or vengeance of God. Out of thin air, baby.

পাগলকে কে না ভয় পায় বলো? গজল লিখতে - লিখতে তুমি একদিন বুঝতে পারবে,শব্দের জান-কে ছুঁতে হলে ভেতর থেকে একেবারে ফকির হয়ে যেতে হবে। কেউ তোমার পাশে থাকবে না আরিফ। প্রিয়জনরা তোমার মুখে থুতু ছিটোবে। আর সেদিন তুমি বুঝতে পারবে, গুফতগু শব্দটার অর্থ। কাকে বলে আশিকের সঙ্গে প্রেমালাপ। কতো সূর্যোদয় ও সূর্যাস্ত ওই শব্দের ভেতর লুকিয়ে আছে।

The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the great mathematician Luca Pacioli in his book 'De divina proportione', written in 1509.

A poem I may never complete / A prosody that may never have rhythm / A rhyming of broken syllables / A Gazal without her mention / Her incomplete gaze; in spite of my presence / My youth without her love is tainted fruit / The fruit that if eaten is committing sin / My soul is imprisoned in the custody of evil orchard / The orchard of despair instead.