Two Couplets
Friday, December 7th, 2007 Posted in Urdu Poetry | 1 Comment »aaj to besabab udaas hai jii ishq hotaa to ko'ii baat bhii thii Nasir Kazmi apnii bekalii kaa sabab aaj tak Khud bhii jaanaa nahiiN ke tujhse kaheN Ahmed Faraz
Jagjit Singh: Kahkashan Part Four
Friday, August 10th, 2007 Posted in Music, Urdu Poetry | 4 Comments »This is the fourth and final part of Kahkashan. Here are the other parts: One, Two, Three. 19.) Aye Gham-E-Dil Kya Karoon [audio:http://mohib.net/blog/audio/Aye_Gham_E_Dil_Kya_Karoon.rbs] shah'r kii raat aur maiN naashaad-o-naakaaraa phiruuN jag-magaatii jaagtii saRakoN pe aavaaraa phiruuN Ghair kii bastii hai kab tak dar badar maraa ...
Lonely Evenings
Saturday, June 16th, 2007 Posted in Self, Urdu Poetry | 4 Comments »din guzaaraa thaa baRii mushkil se phir teraa vaada-e-shab yaad aayaa With much difficulty I scraped through the day and then I remembered your promise for the night. Nasir Kazmi
Jagjit Singh: Kahkashan Part Three
Saturday, May 26th, 2007 Posted in Music, Urdu Poetry | 4 Comments »After a longish break, here is the third part of Kahkashan. Enjoy! Here are the other parts: One, Two, Four. 13.) Roshan Jamal-E-Yaar Se Hai [audio:http://mohib.net/blog/audio/Roshan_Jamal_E_Yaar_Se_Hai.rbs] roshan jamaal-e-yaar se hai anjuman tamaam dahkaa hu'aa hai aatish-e-gul se chaman tamaam (roshan : glowing; jamaal-e-yaar : beauty ...
Reading A Ghazal Of Nasir Kazmi
Thursday, March 29th, 2007 Posted in Featured, Music, Urdu Poetry | 3 Comments »Poignant. That is Nasir Kazmi for you. Sorrow is pervasive throughout Urdu poetry but one striking feature of Kazmi's poetry is the absolute lack of lament. He suffers but he hardly complains. Kazmi wrote a lot of musalsal Ghazals in ...
Jagjit Singh: Kahkashan Part Two
Monday, March 26th, 2007 Posted in Music, Urdu Poetry | 5 Comments »Without much ado here goes the second part of Kahkashan. The other parts are: One, Three, Four. 7.) Bol Ik Tare Jhan Jhan [audio:http://mohib.net/blog/audio/Bol_Ik_Tare_Jhan_Jhan.rbs] bol iktaare jhaN jhaN jhaN jhaN kahkashaaN hai merii sumran shaam kii surkhii meraa kundan nuur ka taRkaa merii chilman toR chukaa huuN ...
Top 25 Ghazals Of Jagjit Singh
Saturday, March 24th, 2007 Posted in Music, Urdu Poetry | 18 Comments »Here is a list of 25 of my favorite Jagjit Singh Ghazals in alphabetical order. Please note that these are Jagjit Singh Ghazals therefore neither duets nor nazms are included. It started with 10 Ghazals then quickly expanded to 20 ...
Jagjit Singh: Kahkashan Part One
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 Posted in Music, Urdu Poetry | 15 Comments »A lot of music connoisseurs consider Kahkashan to be Jagjit Singh's finest album. Kahkashan was a TV serial telecasted on Doordarshan in the early 90s and was based on the lives of famous Urdu poets including Hasrat Mohani, Firaq Gorakhpuri, ...
Searching For A Nazm
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 Posted in Internet, Music, Urdu Poetry | 7 Comments »Curiosity + Internet = Interesting Stuff. I have this nazm by some singer Rochna from an album Izhaar. I don't know anything else about either the singer or the poet. But it is a great nazm and the singer has done ...
Firaq Gorakhpuri
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 Posted in India, Urdu Poetry | 2 Comments »aane vaalii nasleN tum par rashk kareNgii ham-asro jab unko ye Khayaal aayegaa tumne "Firaq" ko dekhaa tha Raghupati Sahay "Firaq" Gorakhpuri is one of the most popular Urdu poets of the latter half of 20th century. Born in Gorakhpur, he ...
