Living Diagonally In My Parallel World!

  Ruke Ruke Se Qadam This song from the Hindi film “Mausam” is liked by many from the generation that’s above 50 today. The film “Mausam” borrows heavily from the novel “The Judas Tree” by AJ Cronin. The story is a tragedy that would have made Shakespeare proud. It’s about a well intentioned but weak and self-indulgent man who brings disaster on three different women and is himself destroyed by the fourth. Here’s the link to the Wikipedia page on the novel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Judas_Tree Unlike the novel, the film has a happy ending. In “Mausam”, Dr. Amarnath, who is on a holiday, falls in love with the innocent Chanda who stays with her father in Darjeeling. During his stay, Amarnath gets intimate with Chanda. While returning to his town he promises Chanda that he’ll return and take her with him. As things turn, he marries a rich mans daughter and never returns to Chanda. Chanda meanwhile gives birth to their love child -   girl and names her Kajli. Chan...

 What is a Ghazal Let’s start with what is a Sher ? Simply put, a Sher is a poem of two lines. But then, this definition is deceptively simple. A Sher does not need, anything around it, to convey the message. So what is a Ghazal ? A Ghazal is necessarily a collection of two-line-poems called Sher. But any collection of Sher's is not Ghazal. A Ghazal is a collection of Sher's which follow the rules of, and 'Radif', 'Kaafiyaa', 'Beher', 'Maqta' 'Matla'. And what do these words mean? Let’s understand by considering a ghazal. e.g Mohsin Naqvi’s classic ghazal composed and sung by Ghulam Ali ये दिल ये पागल दिल मेरा क्यूँ बुझ गया आवारगी इस दश्त में इक शहर था वो क्या हुआ आवारगी कल शब मुझे बे-शक्ल की आवाज़ ने चौंका दिया मैं ने कहा तू कौन है उस ने कहा आवारगी ये दर्द की तन्हाइयाँ ये दश्त का वीराँ सफ़र हम लोग तो उक्ता गए अपनी सुना आवारगी इक अजनबी झोंके ने जब पूछा मिरे ग़म का सबब सहरा की भीगी रेत पर मैं ने लिखा आवारगी कल रात तन्हा चाँद को द...