{"id":14226,"date":"2019-05-10T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T09:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/?p=14226"},"modified":"2019-05-10T13:25:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T09:25:11","slug":"1052019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/en\/1052019\/","title":{"rendered":"I couldn\u2019t have missed Tagore: Dr Shihab Ganem"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 158th anniversary of the bard, Dr Shihab Ganem shows how poetry can link cultures<\/span><\/p>\n

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His love for poetry had taken him on a trek of a bustling north Kolkata neighbourhood years ago: To Jorasanko Thakurbari \u2014 the birthplace of Nobel laureate Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And on his next visit to India, Emirati poet Dr Shihab Ganem intends to continue with that exploration some 170-odd kilometres beyond Kolkata to Santiniketan, where the bard had founded his open university called Vishwa Bharati.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For Dr Ganem, a career technocrat, mapping the footprints of great poets and poetics is second nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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His translations of myriads of works by well-known poets from the world over and across diverse cultural landscapes bear testimony to his quest for literary excellence in general and his pursuit of poetic genius in particular.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Himself a celebrated Arabic poet, whose works have been translated into 18 different languages, Dr Ganem is a rich repertoire of tales of cultural bonding through exploration of verse.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It is little wonder, therefore, that Ganem was fascinated by Tagore\u2019s works and went on to translate one of the bard\u2019s most popular compositions \u2014 the song \u2018Jodi tor daak shuney keu na ashey tobey ekla chalo re\u2019 (If none heeds your call, then go it alone) \u2014 into Arabic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Geetanjali<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Tagore\u2019s collection of poems called Geetanjali<\/em>, which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, has been analysed, dissected and critiqued the world over for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While Tagore himself was very open to western thought and influence on the performing arts \u2014 as some of the songs composed by him bear testimony \u2014 the West has traditionally been rather economical in its appreciation and even sceptical in its analysis of this popular Indian bard.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Someone like W.B. Yeats, who was voluble in his praise of the English translation of Tagore\u2019s works, was extremely caustic in his comments on the poet in later years.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The West even went to the extent of doubting the efficacy of conferring the Nobel on Tagore!\u2028 However, so far as Dr Ganem is concerned, he strongly refutes such criticism of Tagore.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Speaking to Gulf News<\/em> recently, the acclaimed Emirati poet said: \u201cTagore fully deserved his Nobel. I was initially not very keen on concentrating on Tagore\u2019s works because he was such a celebrated poet, whose works had already been translated widely. But then having read his creations, I felt that I couldn\u2019t certainly have missed Tagore! His poetry is so rich and so wonderful that I simply loved translating his works.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But for someone with a double engineering degree, isn\u2019t it a bit unusual to have found such an unusual vocation in poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reacting to the query, Dr Ganem said: \u201cPoetry kept me company during all those gruelling years as a student of engineering and later on during my days of management studies. In between working on some tough engineering problems, which had been given to me as part of a day\u2019s homework, I would read a couple of poems to refresh my mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“What helped me along in this journey was my association with my father, Mohammad Abduh Ganem, who was himself an accomplished poet.\u201d\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

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On being asked how Tagore struck a chord, Ganem said that it had a lot to do with his readings of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam<\/em> \u2014 the name given by Edward Fitzgerald to his translations from Arabic to English to a set of poems composed by Omar Khayyam.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From engineering to poetry<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI found this particular work quite fascinating. Much later, after I had done my graduation in engineering and went on to complete my PhD, I gradually started taking a very keen interest in translating poetry composed in other languages, into Arabic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Thereafter, I won several awards from India for my translations, including the Tagore Peace Award, which I won in 2013.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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His love for poetry led Dr Ganem to a rich repertoire of world literature, cutting across cultural and linguistic barriers. And that was how he came to know about Tagore\u2019s works and developed a liking for it, which finally led him to translate the popular Rabindrasangeet (song written and composed by Tagore),\u00a0Ekla chalo re<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As part of \u2018The Poetic Heart\u2019 festival, which Dr Ganem had initiated in 2011, he decided to translate one of the songs composed by Tagore, into Arabic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This was part of a collaboration which he had with Dev Chakraborty, a classical vocalist from India, and Moroccan opera singer Jenine Bensouda.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI translated the beautiful lyrics of this Tagore song [\u2018Ekla chalo re\u2019] into Arabic, retaining the same tune and rhythm as in the original. It was truly fascinating how we could use the Arabic language to convey the same meaning as in a well-known Bengali song, keeping the original tune unchanged.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Dev sang the song in Bengali while Jenine lent her voice to my Arabic translations of the song and it turned out to be something unique. This was a very interesting development and I hope to be a part of many more such collaborations in the future,\u201d Dr Ganem commented.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr Ganem\u2019s translations of the works of Tagore and various other poets from around the world yet again highlight how synergy of cultures can be achieved seamlessly.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s like building a cultural bridge. I have always been a very ardent follower of Arabic poetry, which is so very rich in terms of its use of language, imagery and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“However, I didn\u2019t stop at that and started taking a keen interest in poetry written in other languages. That is how I came to know about poetry that flourished in the Malayalam language in India in the early 20th century and until this day and I found it very interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“So I went ahead and selected poems from across cultures and languages that were of international value. Such poetry has a universal appeal. In fact, I coined this expression \u2018poetry that crosses barriers\u2019 \u2014 that is what I tried to do through my translations,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reacting to a query on what, according to him, was the biggest challenge in translating something that had been originally composed in a language that one wasn\u2019t familiar with, Dr Ganem referred to Arabic literary writer-critic Al Jahiz.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe had once famously said that poetry is untranslatable. But I do not quite agree with that observation because I have always believed \u2014 more so, during my readings of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam \u2014 that poetry can be translated and translated meaningfully.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“And there are some poems, which, when translated, can help languages and cultures \u2018cross barriers\u2019 and I have concentrated on such works.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To illustrate the point further, Dr Ganem once again drew allusions to Tagore\u2019s Ekla chalo re<\/em><\/u>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAny poetry or song has a certain rhythm and cadence, which are not easy to retain when it is being translated into some other language. The most difficult part is when you have a song like the one composed by Tagore\u2019s [Ekla chalo re …]. It had a set tune, a rhythm that was already hugely popular. Converting that into an Arabic rendition was a huge challenge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While Dr Ganem\u2019s love for poetry made him explore newer pastures through a Tagore or a Fitzgerald, not too many from the current generation would be as enterprising.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So how can poetry be made to hold its allure for the younger generation that is so engrossed in social media and all things internet?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cPresent-day school curricula in most of the Arab world do not include enough good poetry. Initiatives such as \u2018The Poetic Heart\u2019 can play a crucial role in ensuring greater engagement among a young audience so far as writing and reading poetry are concerned,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Profile: Dr Shihab Ganem<\/span><\/div>\n
\u25a0 Born: 1940.<\/span>
\n\u25a0 Nationality: Emirati<\/span>
\n\u25a0 Engineer by profession; poet and translator.<\/span>
\n\u25a0 Holder of a double engineering degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from Aberdeen University, Scotland.<\/span>
\n\u25a0 Holder of Masters of Engineering degree from Roorkee University, India.<\/span>
\n\u25a0 Fellow of the Institute of Management, United Kingdom.<\/span>
\n\u25a0 First Arab poet to win The Tagore Peace Award in 2012 in Kolkata.<\/span>
\n\u25a0 Cultural Personality of the Year, 2013.<\/span>
\n\u25a0 International Best Translator of the Year, 2014.<\/span>
\n\u25a0 Has published more than 80 books.<\/span>
\n\u25a0 Has more than 24 volumes of translations of his work from English to Arabic and Arabic to English.<\/span>
\n\u25a0 Has 16 poetry books to his credit.<\/span>
\n\u25a0 Poetry written by him has been translated into 18 languages.<\/span><\/div>\n
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On the 158th anniversary of the bard, Dr Shihab Ganem shows how poetry can link cultures His love for poetry had taken him on a trek of a bustling north Kolkata neighbourhood years ago: To Jorasanko Thakurbari \u2014 the birthplace of Nobel laureate Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. And on his next visit to India, Emirati […]<\/p>\n

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