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My recent readings are mainly books on spirituality and books on love. I particularly enjoy reading the works of Rumi. Many of the authors I read have a profound understanding of life.

— Shabbir Banoobhai

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I hope everyone who reads, who cares, who feels, who loves – everybody.

For anyone who reads poetry – whether it is my work or that of others – it is important that they find poetry they enjoy.

The poem ‘for fatima meer’ was found to be
a threat to the security of the state.

I tried to combine protest against the politics and oppression of the time in a way that would make it possible for the poetry to survive the protest.

It has been very important to me to get inward moon outward sun published, because this collection closes a chapter in my life. Whether I will write again quite like I have written in the past, I don’t know. We will have to wait for time to show where my writing is headed.

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