After Gujarat and Other Poems/Seeme Qasim. Delhi, Ravi Dayal, 2005,
viii, 55 p., ISBN 81-7530-054-X.
After Gujarat and Other Poems/Seeme Qasim. Delhi, Ravi Dayal, 2005,
viii, 55 p., ISBN 81-7530-054-X.
Contents: After Gujarat: 1. After Gujarat. 2. Going there. 3. In Ahmedabad. 4. Even now, a month later. 5. Being an Indian. 6. An uncertain feeling. 7. The museum of death. 8. Refuge. 9. Escape. 10. The friend who crossed over. 11. About more deaths. 12. So what's new about the millennium? 13. 'Don't stay . . . Go'. 14. Friendly ties. 15. Riots-1. 16. Riots-2. 17. Ritos-3. 18. Riots-4. 19. Naroda village. 20. Siege. 21. The Lodi Masjid on a hill. 22. Aftermath. Before Gujarat: 1. The nuclear game. 2. National pride. 3. May heat. 4. My country has changed. 5. Millennium. 6. Old stones. 7. Meanwhile. 8. Arrival --1. 9. Arrival --2. 10. In the library. 11. Suddenly. 12. Half-past four intimacy. 13. That landscape near the sea. 14. A place where I sometimes go. 15. Fighting in the middle east. 16. Bangladesh.
"After Gujarat, the first section of this volume, contains twenty-two poems that are a response to the events following 27 February 2002, in Godhra, Gujarat. Here, a train coach carrying kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya caught fire, leading to the death of fifty-eight passengers. The next day a massacre of Gujarat's Muslims began.
Before Gujarat, the second section of sixteen poems, covers a quieter, more reflective world. But this too is not untouched by events such as India and Pakistan's nuclear detonations and conflict in West Asia." (jacket)