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Renu Sud Sinha
At 86, Gulzar has achieved almost everything in the field of words, but is still not ready to rest on his innumerable laurels. Driven by his love and passion for poetry, Gulzar was 76 when he started off on yet another uncharted path to gather contemporary poetry in Indian languages in one volume. A decade later, what emerged was a labour of love and passion 365 poems, a poem for every day of the year reflecting the ethos of a nation born some 70 years ago.
The book starts with verses of hope tinged with the rosy glow of freedom, but soon turns into disappointment of expectations not met. The feminist movement, emergence of Naxalites and their struggle, the trials and tribulations that Punjab went through in short, it is the poetic journey of a nation and its testing times.