Tuesday, February 24, 2009

News at Eleven: With her pen, Tuba [Sahaab] is taking on the swords

of the Taliban. She crafts poems telling of the pain and suffering of children just like her; girls banned from school, their books burned, as the hard-core Islamic militants spread their reign of terror across parts of Pakistan.

A stanza of one of her poems reads: "Tiny drops of tears, their faces like angels, Washed with blood, they sleep forever with anger."

from CNN: Girl poet takes on the Taliban with her pen

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1 comment :

Upal Deb said...

Tuba is a poetic prodigy...surely,she'll reach dizzy heights...Her kind should be safeguarded not for poetry alone,but for bringing conscience in this bad,mad world...