The Sufi's Garland

Published in connection with the 150th birth-anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, India's first Nobel Laureate, THE SUFI'S GARLAND is a Fakir's weave of words in poetry. The stony hills of Afghanistan forms the backdrop and one has to listen only to the Sufi's muse to believe that this howling dry wind can tune so soulful a music! The reader becomes a sojourner in a caravan, and the vagrant's steering-wheel takes him to a painter's studio to unfold the mysteries of life. Maasoom's poems are not scriptures and yet they bring the reader to 'a sufibhakt's fonts in mass rapture with Bhagwan's theatre'. As a tribute to Emily Dickinson, Antonio Porchia and Rabindranath Tagore THE SUFI'S GARLAND is an utterly hypnotic read in its truest sense.