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Sunday, 20. October 2002

Sunday Note



Last night I went out and celebrated sadness. We celebrate joy but we don't celebrate sadness given that perhaps sadness is a much more authentic emotion we feel. One can fake happiness but rarely can one fake or would want to fake sadness.

It was a Sitar concert, Hindustani classical music. A few raagas that were played are, Raag Shaam Kalyan,Jihnjhoti, Ameer and Misra Pilu. It was an ecstatic experience, a journey to the roots, which defines who I am. Given the inherently turbulent and confusing times I had been going through, such a journey was very welcome. And now I sit here listening to Mirza Ghalib, the unrivalled master of Ghazal.


The ghazal goes something like this:

dil-e-naadaaN tujhe huaa kya hai ? aaKHir is dard kee dawa kya hai

O unbelmished heart, what has happened to you? And what is the medicine for this ache?

hamko unse wafa ki hai ummeed jo naheeN jaante wafa kya hai

Fidelity, I had expected from her, one who doesn't know what fidelity means.

ham haiN mushtaaq aur woh bezaar ya ilaahee ! yeh maajra kya hai?

(mushtaaq = interested, bezaar = displeased/sick of)

I am interested and she is displeased! O God! why these dilemas of the heart?

jab ki tujh bin naheeN koee maujood fir ye hangaama, 'ei KHuda ! kya hai

And given that there was none but her, then all this turmoil, O God, why?

dil-e-naadaaN tujhe huaa kya hai ? aaKHir is dard kee dawa kya hai

O unbelmished heart, what has happened to you? And what is the medicine for this ache?


Joy! Sashi




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