Literary Legend Speaks - Published in Contemporary Vibes - July - September 2010

PROF. SYED AMEERUDDIN - a living literary legend - a prolific perennial source of creative cascades in his unique style of poetics, prose, and criticism- revered and adored all over the world- especially academia and social-service sector, has been too kind enough to give a detailed interview to Anil K. Sharma- to reveal the intricacies of the complex journey of life spanning almost seven decades wherein from his childhood to the youthful days to the zenith of his life, a spectrum of cherished memorabilia of longings, struggles, suffocations- all mixed together in the human journey streaked with hurdles, handicaps and hard realism coupled with idealism, humanism, lamentations and struggling spirits, -all inflaming the torch of literature in the inequitable world of ruthless socio-economic disparities- present a scenario of the past, present and future. The timeless conversation shall prove to be eternal in its ethos for research scholars and lovers of literature as a light house to anchor the shores of knowledge and humanity.

Q. The vision of your childhood can easily be gauged from the opening poem offamous poetry book "Visions of Deliverance" where you have addressed the poem as 'A Prayer -For My Grandson...' did your orthodox muslim family believed in liberalism and universality? of thought?
Every child is born like an angel, his smile radiates divine sparkles, his eyes twinkle like morning stars, his innocence and beauty sweetness and light. A child is like a luminous shower upon humanity, a star is said to be born in the mystic family tree.
Syed Muslims have heritage of seers of rustic simplicity, they combine all the values of Moses, Jesus, Momamed and Ram; the fundamental belief that a Man is Man- the humanism vouches for sanity and oneness of Man.