I was about to leave for the graveyard when he entered my room and stood behind the door. He looked pale, so weak that only his head was visible. “I won’t go there. The sun is searing and there aren’t even any trees,” he said as I wore my shoes. “There isn’t any shade here ...
اَتا شاد شَرترێن شائرے یا منیر مۆمن، اے گُها من وارتَ نکناں. من گوَشان کَسّ مئوارتی. ترا اَتا دۆست‌تِرَ بیت منا منیر. ترا منزور بسملئے شائری سِتکا اِنت، منا امبر سمینئے. اَتا و منیر، بلۆچیئے دو مزنێن شائر اَنت. چۆ که اَتا و منیر دوێن چه رئوایتان یاگی بوتگ‌اَنت، مردم دوێنان یکّێن چمّا چارنت. بله ...
Fazal Baloch translates Munir Momen’s poem, zamanag, we publish the other day. Every night, The world yells some filthy abuse, At my solitude, And runs away out of the window. But it cannot travel beyond the city. Every morning, I’m the first to bump into it. Oblivious of its abuse and my solitude, It steps inside my house along ...
زمانگ ہر شپ منی تہنائیءَ دُژمانے دنت ءُ چہ دریگءَ لِکّیت بلے چہ شہرءَ ڈَنّ درکپت نہ کنت سہبءَ چہ دُرساں پیش گوں من دپ کپیت وتی دژمانءُ منی تہنائیءَ شموشیت منی ہمراہ چہ دروازگءَ لوگءِ تہا پُتریت https://soundcloud.com/user-871791679/voice-006
Madiea Ghafoor is being touted as the first Baloch woman taking part at the Rio Olympics 2016. Born and raised in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the 23-year-old is the granddaughter of famous Baloch politician and activist from Lyari, Lala Lal Bakhsh Rind. She will be representing Netherlands in the 4×400 relay in the games. Talking to a ...
This poem, was e bewasi, by Atta Shad has been translated from Balochi by Fazal Baloch. God, O God! Where is that world? That heaven and the earth? Where is the dark dawn that should lead to daylight? Those flower-studded stars, the bright moon? Where is that inner tipsy ambience? The pleasant landscape of pleasing hearts? ...
“Barr e Kaheer has been set on fire,” a neighbor broke into our house, sweating from head to toe, to inform my mother. The guy who brought the news had been long gone. Yet, my mom stood static like a statue with a look I had never seen on her face. It made me confused. ...
من 2013 ءَ کسانیں نبشتانکے شنگ کتگہ کہ اگں ترا شعرے ساڑایگی انت بگش اے شعر بلوچی تب ءِ نمائندہیں شعرے ۔اگں آزمانکے گلایگی انت بگش اے کسہ ءِ تہا ’’کارستانی نفسیات چٹ بلوچی‘‘ انت۔ اگں شاعرے یا آزمانکارے وتی شعر یا کسہانی تہا بتلی زبان کارمرز مہ کنت بزان آ چہ دری زباناں اثرمند انت ...
Currently, I supervise ten trailer trucks in Uganda, the Pearl of Africa. But five years back, I was a journalist with a promising future. I led a team of over 50 reporters, sub-editors and other non-editorial staff at The News International, a newspaper that touts itself to be Pakistan’s largest circulated English daily. I was rigorously ...
دور سَک دور چهرگێن دئورانی وابان سَکَّ بنت اهدئے ودارانی چَم بارێن کدی دۆرانی باری مَٹَّ بنت؟ اے زندگی، اے یَکّ و تهناێن سپر هر دو سئواسان سِستگێن گُکّ بَستگێن پادینکێا گرّان اِنت جاهے رۆچێا جاهے شپا بڈّا کُتگ۔۔۔ جاهے شُدا واپێنتگ و شَر ٹَپِّتگ تان اندگه سهبئے سرا چمانی سیاهی آرگی سُرمگ کتگ ...
