Ehsan Sehgal: An Eminent Poet & Writer of Sindh, Pakistan

Ehsan Sehgal

 An Eminent Poet & Writer of Sindh, Pakistan

Ehsan Sehgal is an eminent Pakistani-Dutch poet and writer. He shifted to the Netherlands in the year of 1978 to neglect persecution during the General Zia era in Pakistan, and has lived in the Netherlands since.

Literary career of Ehsan Sehgal

Sehgal began his literary career in the year of 1967. His first publication was a novel, but his next books were all collections of poetry. He has also written Ruba’i.

Besides the novel and books of poetry, he issued a collection of aphorisms in Dutch in the year of 2010. The book, De Wijze Weg (“The Wise Way”), was written and translated with the assistance of Naeem Arif. The Wise Way was also produced in a bilingual version containing both English and Urdu.

In one reviewer’s evaluation: “As far as the poetic justice in Sehgal’s writing is considered, it is debatable. In spite of certain shortcomings, he keeps on writing which is a good.”  Indian poet Nida Fazli compared a notion expressed in one of Sehgal’s couplets with a couplet of Ghalib.

Bibliography

Novel

• Khushi Bad-e-Gham (“Happiness and Grief”).

Poetry

• Sehr-e-Jazbat (“A City of Emotions”).
• Parwaz-e-Takhayyul.
• Andaz-e-Takhayyul.
• Saz-e-Takhayyul.
• Naz-e-Takhayyul.
• Afkar Ki Khushboo.
• Charag-e-Dard.
• Zarb-e-Sukhan. Karachi city, London, The Hague: Urdu Tahreek, 2009.