Ivar Tabrizi

We carry in our names all the flotsam and jetsam of our tribe, our people, our history, our collective failures and our sorrows. Dimly perceived perhaps, but still it anchors us and imprisons us in ways not even the bars of a prison can do. So by choosing to write under the pen name of Ivar Tabrizi, I thought I would loosen the grip my world has on me, and explore with simple words, learnt in the teeming city of Calcutta, why we live such desperate lives and then die, leaving hardly a trace of ourselves except perhaps in the genes of our children. Death may be the final point where we discard our possessions and our names, an event we, all of us, try not to think of. But it is Sorrow, which stalks us all through our lives like a persistent and passionate lover. In the momentary joys and rare ecstasies of life, she places her love offering, to blossom in time as grief. I came to know her well as I toiled in the desert wastes of the Middle East, in the mountain ranges of Iran, in the high seas from Papua New Guinea to Madagascar, and in the teeming cities of the East. As Sorrow unveiled herself to me, I learnt to laugh. And she laughed with me. It is to the echoes of this laughter, dear reader, that we shall walk hand in hand through the woods of my world as I whisper the humorous tales of reincarnations, the bloody stories of genocide, the pain of love retrieved and suddenly lost, of yearnings and of heart aches. Perhaps, in the shadow of Sorrow’s laughter, we shall discern the meaning of it all. Ivar Tabrizi

Dive into the Ocean; halfheartedness doesn't reach majesty - Rumi

Hobbies:

Reading,Writing & reading again!

Favorite Movies:

Dr.Zhivago; The Bridge on the River Kwai; The Ugly American

Favorite TV Shows:

Just BBC News

Favorite Music:

Tchaikowsky & Chopin & Ravi Shankar's Sitar

Favorite Books:

Razor's Edge; Collected short stories of Somerset Maugham,The Arthurian Triology by Bernard Cornwell. The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, Travels with Charley by Steinbeck,The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini,Reading Lolita in Tehran byAzar Nafisi are just a few of the books that I have read again and again