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Rann, Talvār te Ghoṛā
A translation of Afzal Ahsan Randhawa's short story.
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The madman in samādhi
On Giani Gian Singh Almast
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Bhakta, Lover, Martyr
On the enduring motif of the sacrificed head
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On Waris Shah's Hīr
ਹਾਜੀ ਲੋਕ ਮੱਕੇ ਨੂੰ ਜਾਂਦੇ ਮੇਰਾ ਰਾਂਝਾ ਮਾਹੀ ਮੱਕਾ।—Pilgrims go to Mecca; my Mecca is my beloved Ranjha. (Bulleh Shah) “When the lover has become the very…
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A Tapestry of Visions
“…the sun has also been mythologically expressed by a man slashing his own throat, as well as by an anthropomorphic being deprived of a head.” (Georges…
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The Devi's vortex of war
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.” (Georges Bataille, 1944) “Through its…
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On Maya
ਤੁਹੀਂ ਕਾਲ ਕੀ ਕਲਾ, ਕਾਲਕਾ ਦੁਸ਼ਟ ਬਿਭੰਜਨ।—You are Kaal’s kalaa: Kaalikaa, destroyer of the wicked. (Naveen Panth Prakaash, Giani Gian Singh) “Magic is the…
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The Consecrated Warrior in Dasam Bāṇī's Khalsa cosmos
“The vital center of the heroic world is violent catastrophe.” (Jan Heesterman, 1986) ਜੂਝਬੋ ਜੂਝ ਕੈ ਪ੍ਰਾਨ ਤਜੈ ਜੁਝਾਇਬੋ ਛਤ੍ਰਨ ਕੋ ਬਨ ਆਯੋ ॥—To wage war, to…
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