Blood Into Ink

Remembering: "Lament to the Spirit of War" (Sumarian Poem), Enheduanna (Sumaria, 2300BC);"To Waris Shah" (Indian Poem), Amrita Pritam (India, 1947); "Intimations of Anxiety" (Arabic Poem), Laila al-Saih (Palestine, 1983); From "The Bride" (English Novel), Bapsi Sidhwa (Pakistan, 1983); "On the Road to Birak Sulaiman" (Arabic Short Story), Samira Azzam (Palestine, 1959); "Where Is My Mother?" (Hindi Short Story), Krishna Sobti (India, 1960s); "Blackout: Calcutta 1971" (English Poem), Chitra Divakaruni (India, 1990); "Do You Remember the Color of the Sea at Dair Yasin?" (Arabic Poetry), Siham Daud (Palestine, 1978); "Night Patrol" (English Poem), Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi (West Bank, 1989); "Beirut: Theatre of the Absurd (Arabic Novel), Ghada Samman (Syria, 1980); No Man's Land" (English Poem), Meena Alexander (India, 1989-1990); "One Cannot Kill a Baby Twice" (Hebrew Poem), Dahlia Ravikovitch (Israel, 1982); "Parbati" (Urdu Short Story), Farkhanda Lodhi (Pakistan, 1960); "Auschwitz from Colombo" (English Poem), Anne Ranasinghe (Sri Lanka, 1975); "Our Daily Bread" (Arabic Short Story), Emily Nasrallah (Lebanon, 1985); "Genocide" (English Poem), Jean Arasanayagam (Sri Lanka, 1970); "Colossus" (Malayalam Poem), B. Sugathakumari (India, 1940s); "A New Wait" (Arabic Short Story), Aliya Talib (Iraq, 1988). Waging Peace: "Meditation of Mahakali" (Sanskrit Hymn to the Goddess), Swami Jagadisvarananda (Ancient India); "For Her Brother" (Arabian Poem), Al-Khansa (Sixth Century CE); "Indigo" (Bengal: 1779-1860) (English Poem), Chitra Divakaruni (India, 1987). From Satyagraha (English memoirs)-V-ijaiya Lakshmi Pandit (India, 1979); From "Inner Recesses Outer Spaces" (English Memoirs), Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (India, 1986); From "Memoirs of an Unrealistic Woman" (Arabic Novel), Sahar Khalifeh (West Bank, Israel, 1986); From "Fareuell Communism, Long Live Jewish-Arab Friendship!" (Hebrew Memoirs), Nessia Shafran (Israel, 1980); "Where Did She Belong?" (Urdu Short Story), Suraiya Qasim (India, 1965); "Two Faces, One Woman" (Arabic Short Story), Nuha Samara (Palestine/Lebanon, 1980); "Draupadi" (Bengali Short Story), Mahasweta Devi (India, 1980); "A Short Hike" (Farsi Short Story), A. Rahmani (Iran, 1981); "The Future" (Arabic Short Story), Daisy al-Amir (Iraq, 1980); "Testimony" (Pushto), Anonymous Afghan Woman (Afghanistan, 1987); "The Morning After" (Hindi Short Story), Mridula Garg (India, 1988); Indian Nationalist Poetry in America (Punjabi and English Interview, Songs and Poems), Jane Singh (United States, 1985); From "Of Blood and Fire (Bengali Diary), Jahanara Imam (Bengal, 1989); "Greening" (Arabic Short Story), Aliya Talib (Iraq, 1988); "I Remember I Was a Point, I Was a Circle" (Arabic Poem), Huda Naamani (Syria, 1980); "The Gull and the Negation of the Negation (Arabic Poem), Fadwa Tuqan (West Bank, Israel, 1987). (part contents).