Qarz e Jaa'n (Hindi)

Description

In Hindi, Qarz-e-Jaan is the fourth poetry collection by Adeel Zaidi, compiled by Salim Saleem, and published in Devanagari, Roman, and Urdu script to reach readers across scripts. Zaidi comes from a distinguished literary family — his father, Prof. Syed Akhtar Raza Zaidi, was a noted historian and poet — and has been rooted in Urdu poetry since childhood despite decades of life in the US. This collection has a wide thematic canvas, exploring the clash of East and West, body and soul, truth and falsehood, and the search for cultural belonging, with a poetic idiom deeply grounded in classical tradition.