About imtiaz dharker the right
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AKALA:We all know thousands and thousands of words. We hear them, we read them, we speak them, every single day. But are we careful enough in the way that we use language? Because, do you know what it takes to change everything we think about a person? Just one word.
IMTIAZ DHARKER:Outside the door, lurking in the shadows, 'is a terrorist. Is that the wrong description?' Outside that door, taking shelter in the shadows, 'is a freedom fighter. Although this poem has words like terrorist in it it's not really a poem about terrorism. It's more to do with how you can take one single imageand interpret it in different ways.'
IMTIAZ DHARKER:'I call myself a Scottish, Pakistani, Calvinist Muslim adopted by India and married to Wales.' What I'm trying to do there is to say, "Don't put one word on me,"
IMTIAZ DHARKER:"don't put me in one label or one box."
AKALA:So, is there a right word?
IMTIAZ DHARKER:The right word really is a word that's used with care and thought - with knowledge that the word is precious. Words can be used and are being used every day around us and in our media, to create suspicion. Even of innocent people. 'So it's not that we shouldn't be afraid of, say, of a ter
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Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist, and filmmaker whose work traverses the borders of Pakistan, her country of origin, and her adopted countries of India and the UK. "The right word,” originally published in Dharker's collection The terrorist at my table, explores the power of language on people's perception.
As if editing a film, Dharker presents different scenes of a situation where someone stands outside the door. With each new stanza, the context changes as a different word is used to describe the figure. The speaker progressively names the person as a terrorist, a freedom fighter, a hostile militant, a guerrilla warrior, a martyr, and finally, a child. The speaker invites the boy to come in and eat, and the boy carefully takes his shoes off at the door.
The terrorist at my table was well-received. The poems in the collection center on the fragility inherent to the normal routines and structures of life as people await an attack. This fragility can become violently unsettled, but it also helps form love and trust between people. In London Magazine, Alan Ross reviewed the collection: "Hers is a strong, concerned, economical poetry, in which political activity, homesickness, urban vio
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About Imtiaz Dharker
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