{"id":34843,"date":"2024-10-15T17:28:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T15:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=34843"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:08:52","slug":"waqas-khwaja-two-poems-from-no-one-waits-for-the-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/waqas-khwaja-two-poems-from-no-one-waits-for-the-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Waqas Khwaja\u2014Two Poems from <em>No One Waits for the Train<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>&#8220;Evocative at many levels of Waqas Khwaja&#8217;s chosen literary ancestors such as Baba Farid, Bulle Shah, Kabir, and Nanak,<em> No One Waits for the Train<\/em> is a soulful meditation on the 1947 partition of British India. 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