Meet Shahid Ul Islam, who pens his debut book titled “The Crestfallen Soul”

Report: Sameer Ahmad

Anantnag: Shahid Ul Islam, a 22 year old law student, who hails from Matipora Shangus area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, has penned down his debut book (collection of poems) titled “The Crestfallen Soul” which is based on ‘reality, feelings, and emotions’.

This book, with the set of 60 poems, each addressing a unique emotion every time you turn the page, has the ability to draw out the most intense of emotions from the deepest reaches of one’s heart.

Shahid’s poetry portrays the real sense of pain and love one can feel for his/her beloved. The way he has penned his poetry lines showing the relation of faith, he has built with his creator, gives an immense pleasure to every reader.

Talking to Arising State, Shahid Ul Islam said that the poetry can be seen as wave of voices comes from the depths of my heart. The author is a budding poet and writer, who speaks out his heart through a pen.

The Artist in his book highlights the reality of a person who has gone through such situations and end up with faith in his/her heart for betterment and expectations only from one’s creator.

By this compilation, the author has proven, how if we will, we can inspire to change. Mentioning the idea about getting published, Author says “idea to write and publish book flashed my mind before sometime, when i started to submit different writeups for newspapers addressing many issues”.

Shahid is actively writing on different social issues through various newspapers & he is working with many NGOs like Jammu and Kashmir student association, Campus Ambassador of young lawyers’ forum and also a Campus Ambassador of law students’ forum.

Besides this, he is a motivational and elegant speaker. Moreover he is a host and has been awarded with a number of appreciation certificates from different organizations and his college. He has also secured Ist rank in quiz competition in 2017.

In order to this, he has also been shortlisted by STRO among the top 100 writers and has been awarded with the certificate of appreciation. He is writing pulchritudinous articles, journals and poetry through various newspapers, and is interested in debates and speeches.

Shahid wants to keep his writings so simple and lucid and his way of writing is alluring. Shahid’s beloved extended the severance and made him write poetry. Shahid’s aim is to become an IAS officer or work in judiciary.