Manav Sachdeva Maasoon

Manav Sachdeva Maasoom, 27, works in Afghanistan as a Capacity Advisor to help transfer the ownership of Afghanistan's development back to the Afghan Government. Maasoom grew up in India till his mid-teens, then lived and studied in California, Michigan, Wisconsin, DC, and New York. He studied Poetry and Policy Studies, an independently created field, under the auspices of International Affairs at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. He has been published in Views Unplugged, Tablet, The Egalitarian, and some other zines and papers. Maasoom reads and writes poetry in English, Urdu, Punjabi, and some in Persian.

• The Sufi's Garland - Introduction
• The Sufi's Garland - PDF  version of whole poem