The Homeland's an Ocean(English, Hardcover, Hoskote Ranjit)

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The Homeland's an Ocean(English, Hardcover, Hoskote Ranjit) is written by Hoskote Ranjit and published by Penguin Random House India. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0143460218 (ISBN 10) and 9780143460213 (ISBN 13).

‘Like the whirlpool, still centre of a giddy circling, the homeland’s an ocean that scatters us in all directions.’ Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810) Mir, one of the greatest Urdu poets, lived through extraordinarily turbulent times in a Delhi besieged by marauders, and in exile elsewhere in North India. By the time he died, aged eighty-seven, he had witnessed a long era of violence and chaos. Yet, through it all, he crafted the most exquisite poetry, shaping the Urdu language from the resources of Khari Boli, Persian and Brajbhasha. A thoughtful selection of 150 of his asha’ar or couplets by Ranjit Hoskote, The Homeland’s an Ocean reveals a far more political Mir than we know, a many-sided poet of melancholia, irreverent humour, love and audacious social vision. Hoskote’s fresh, contemporary translation brings Mir’s poetry back to a world that needs such a passionately urgent voice. Framed by the translator’s substantial introduction to Mir’s life and his literary, linguistic and political contexts, this book invites readers to look through a unique eighteenth-century lens at our current crises of homeland, identity and belonging.