The Lost Pages— Sabreen Ahmed
There are no more
Roses in the Mughal Gardens,
Nor any trains at Mughal Sarai,
Shahjahan is dead.
Will Taj Mahal fade?
In a pale moonlit night
Akbar’ s ghost shall haunt no more
The forts at Fatehpur Sikri,
How long will the muzzein ‘s call will be heard from the Jama Masjid ?
The red marble stones of Old Delhi shall be painted black to sing the dirge of a buried Empire
lost in the pages
Of rewritten history..
Dr. Sabreen Ahmed is an Assistant Professor/researcher at Nowgong College based in Nagaon, Assam in North East India. She is a PhD in literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her area of interest is Gender Studies, Theory and Muslim Women’s Writings.
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