The Creative Process: The Arts of War (Spring 2017)

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Spring 2017 The Arts of War “I write on war because I don’t get sleep at night”: Daaniyal Sayed A PHOTOGRAPH OF IDLIB AFTER THE CHEMICAL BOMBING/ AL JAZEERA O n Wednesday, April 5, 2017, the Syrian government used chemical weapons on the people of Idlib, Syria. This was not the first instance of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government on its own people, having done so previously in August 2013. It is the indiscriminate killing of civilian populations that affects Daaniyal highly, and while talking with TMAC, uses this as an entry point into his poetry on the horrors of War. Born and brought up in Bombay, Daaniyal’s journey with the spoken and written word began through rap written about partying and love. He still writes poetry about Pyaar (love) and Mohabbat (affection), but only does it to distract himself from the horrors of war, he tells us. In many ways, Daaniyal’s evolution from Rapper to Poet was an evolution of the consciousness and the thoughtfulness, enabling him to become a poet that explores serious 28
The Creative Process issues with his work. What separates Daaniyal from a significant part of the poetry tradition and community in Bombay is that he writes about pyaar andmohabbat when he is trying to get his mind off the horrors of war, unlike his peers, who, according to him, have an almost single minded focus on these things. Daaniyal’s work oftentimes talks about the horrors of war. His sensitive nature can be traced back to his childhood. His heightened sense of emotive perception is key to his view on war, which he believes is inherently immoral. Pain and suffering is also vital to his view on war, and he recounts viewing a video (warning: graphic content) of a child following the chemical attack on Idlib. The vacant stare of the child, clearly in pain, haunted Daaniyal, who said that “their eyes talk to him.” This was instrumental in prompting him to think about the repercussions of warfare, and his consumption of the iconography of suffering (Susan Sontag, Regarding The Pain of Others) makes him a more conscious person, for his conversations about his work are an implicit recognition that behind the facade of glory and victory lies a world wrought with destruction, with lives torn apart. 29
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