Translating one region's works for another region has a beauty with an inborn connect. We might speak different languages but our culture… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
A vendor selling coconuts on the road is a philosopher. He will have ideas on politics, economics, history, sports. This has saved… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
It is good to be well connected with English language, literature and history, but the knowledge of our culture and roots is… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
We've talked and written about the World War so much that it has almost been purged off. The bitterness is gone. The… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
All day long I keep wishing, let partition be a past now. It should only remain a part of history. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Being in the Sahitya Akademi, I did know quite a few poets - Jayanta Mahapatra, Sitakant Mahapatra, Sunil Gangopadhyay, to name a few. There… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
When writers say that they need to 'set the mood' or 'get into the zone', those are all ways to procrastinate. Not prerequisites. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
In film lyrics, I avoid Persianised words because they are not widely understood. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
A writer will not keep quiet. He will express his opinion through writings. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Being master of Urdu doesn't interest me, being part of the global society does, breathing hope into that society matters to me. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
