Happy Holi
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007 Posted in Culture, India, Urdu Poetry | No Comments »And here is a beautiful example of Indo-Islamic culture. horii hoye rahii hai Ahmad jiyaa ke dvaar Hori hoye rahi hai Ahmad jiyaa ke dvaar Hajrat Ali kaa rang banaa hai Hasan Hussain khilaaR horii hoye rahii hai Ahmad jiyaa ke dvaar (horii : holi; ...
tumko dekhe hu’e guzre haiN zamaane aao
Friday, March 2nd, 2007 Posted in Music, Urdu Poetry | 1 Comment »tumko dekhe hu'e guzre haiN zamaane aao umr-e-raftaa kaa ko'ii Khvaab dikhaane aao Come back as its been ages since I last saw you. Come back to show me a dream from the days bygone. maiN saraaboN meN bhaTaktaa rahuuN sehraa sehraa tum merii pyaas ...
pyaar mujhse jo kiyaa tumne to kyaa paaogii
Monday, February 26th, 2007 Posted in Music, Urdu Poetry | 5 Comments »One of the best nazms ever. kyuuN samajhtii ho mujhe bhuul nahiiN paaogii?
jab yaqiin-e-vafaa hu’aa hogaa
Saturday, February 17th, 2007 Posted in Self, Urdu Poetry | 5 Comments »This is my favorite self-written Ghazal. The only reason it has not been posted at this blog is because I don't like its matlaa. I was thinking of changing it but it seems it would not happen anytime soon. A ...
The Sound Of Sounds
Monday, January 22nd, 2007 Posted in Urdu Poetry | 3 Comments »phir usii be-vafaa pe marte haiN phir vohii zindagii hamaarii hai jaate hu'e kahte ho qayaamat ko mileNge kyaa Khuub! qayaamat kaa hai goyaa ko'ii din aur dair nahiiN, haram nahiiN, dar nahiiN, aastaaN nahiiN baiThe haiN raahguzar pe ham, Ghair hameN uThaaye kyuuN haaN vo ...
Munir Niazi Passes Away
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 Posted in Literature, Urdu Poetry | 2 Comments »innaa lillaahe va inna ilaihe raajiuun To Allah We Belong And To Him We Shall Return As if the loss of Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi was not big enough for us comes the shocking news of the demise of Munir Niazi. For many ...
One Ghazal, So Many Singers
Sunday, September 10th, 2006 Posted in Music, Urdu Poetry | 29 Comments »Which singer comes to your mind when you read chupke chupke raat din aaNsuu bahaanaa yaad hai? Ghulam Ali even though Jagjit Singh has also sung it. What about ranjish hi sahii, dil hii dukhaane ke liye aa? Mehdi Hassan ...
Jan Nisar Akhtar’s 30th Death Anniversary
Saturday, August 26th, 2006 Posted in Aligarh Memories, India, Literature, Urdu Poetry | 7 Comments »It was in my mind till very recently but then I forgot. 19th Aug 2006 was the thirteeth death anniversary of Jan Nisar Akhtar, an accomplished lyricist and poet. He was also the father of Javed Akhtar, husband of Safiya ...
dil-e-naadaan kii qayaadat meN
Thursday, July 27th, 2006 Posted in Self, Urdu Poetry | 5 Comments »Time for another of my old Ghazals. Originally, there were five couplets, I have discarded one. --------- dil-e-naadaan kii qayaadat meN umr guzrii hai kis aziiyat meN (naadaan : innocent, simple; qayaadat : leadership; aziiyat : difficulties) ab tujhe bhuul bhii nahiiN sakte mubtilaa haiN ajab ...
A Poem For Beirut
Monday, July 17th, 2006 Posted in Urdu Poetry, World | 8 Comments »As Beirut is caught, yet again, between Israeli army on one side and Hizbollah on the other, I remember this poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz. As some of us know, Faiz went into exile to Beirut and lived there from ...
