Selected Poems (PB)

Gulzar takes you through multiple journies, in this beautiful book. Even through the slightest and smallest of poetries he seems to move a little portion of your heart. Its almost astonishing how he always manages to write something so beautiful, and almost makes you want him to scrape and pain your heart with those moving, breathing pieces of poetry. He makes you feel the absence of books in todays life, he makes you feel the beautiful love left unrequited in the lovers heart, he makes you feel the pain and agony of the prostitute, and the love and the desire to hold time for his growing daughter, Bosky. This is as beautiful as a book could get. Also, the translation by Pavan K. Verma does wonders for the Non- Hindi audience. He does an excellent job in letting you touch Gulzar's beautiful work in English. A must recommend.

Awesome collection

The Shayari made me think twice and this book had a translated of original shayri into English but somewhere it lacks its essence.

Gulzar sahab and his poems don’t need any introduction

I bought this book to read some poems. It has almost 45 poems, I guess. Now, since it is a bilingual book, when I read the left page (written in Hindi), I got that 'mithas' (sweetness), but when these got translated in English, poems fell flat. The poems are good as song but they can't stand strong as solo poem, I feel. Though, some of the poems are really good, like Weaver, Potrait of a poet, Bonfire, and few segments from Triveni. If you want to just read on a leisure day, then this book is okay but if you truly love stream of poetries, then it is not for you. One thing that I love about this book is that it maintains the culture in its words and thoughts. It is truly admirable. It is rare nowadays but it lacks the layers of depth as you can predict the tone of next line very early and there's nothing to dig deep. Probably, I had a little high expectation from this book.

This book is really amazing I love this book

Well kept Book

What can be more calming than a book, filled with words that showcases reality.