The Sufi’s Garland
Manav Sachdeva Maasoom

Maasoom’s poetry is a Fakir’s journey. The stony hills of Afghanistan forms the backdrop and one has to listen only to the Sufi’s muse to believe that this howling dry wind can tune so soulful a music! The reader becomes a sojourner in a caravan, and the vagrant's steering-wheel takes him to a painter’s studio to unfold the mysteries of life. Maasoom’s poems are not scriptures and yet they bring the reader to ‘a sufibhakt's fonts in mass rapture with Bhagwan's theatre’. The Sufi’s Garland is an utterly hypnotic read in its truest sense.

Manav Sachdeva Maasoom has been writing poetry since he was eleven. His first poem appeared in The Tribune when he was just twelve years old. A Columbia University graduate, Maasoom now lives in New York and works for the United Nations. The Sufi's Garland is his debut book.

‘I consider Sufi’s Garland as the kind of book one loves to pass on to others but one cannot truly bear to part with.’
Hazel Menehira, Words
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‘Maasoom offers a wealth of smart sufi beauty.’
Jim Culleny, 3QuarksDaily
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‘Sachdeva impressively succeeds in celebrating the true Sufi spirit with his meditations which delicately attempt to reconcile the esoteric inner ‘self’ with the exoteric ‘other’’.
Azra Raza,
Author of Ghalib: Epistemologies of Elegance

‘Manav Sachdev's poetry uplifts, heals and illuminates. A precious gift for those who seek beauty and truth.’
Salman Ahmad,
Founder of Pakistani Sufi Rock Band Junoon
and the bestselling author of Rock & Roll Jihad

‘Here is a new poet who crosses national barriers to encompass our divisive world in a grand mystical gesture of sublime concord.’
Mukesh Williams,
Author of Moving Spaces, Changing Places

‘Manav Sachdeva Maasoom has a poet’s heart and a Sufi eye for metaphor and Love’s many-tributaried river.’
Irving Karchmar,
Author of Master of the Jinn: A Sufi Novel