Category Archives: urdu

tasleem

koi rishta nahi raha fir bhi, ek tasleem laazmi si hai aaj fir aapki kami si hai –Gulzar (Marasim) img cour­tesy: flickr ’shaam se aankh me’ Like Unlike
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I hate red

Red for fire Ishq par zor nahi, hai ye wo aatish Ghalib ke lagaaye na lage aur bujhaaye na bane Red for passion mae pilaakar aapka kya jaayega, jaayega eemaan jiska jaayega qatl ki jab usne di dhamki mujhe, keh diya maine bhi dekha jaayega Red for hatred Barbadi-e-dil jabr nahi Faiz kisi ka wo dushman-e-jaa’n hai to bhula kyun nahi dete Red for indifference [...]
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the concept of ‘Jigar’

For those who are famil­iar with hindi/urdu songs, ghaz­als etc are well-versed with the usage of ‘jigar’ in typ­i­cal love songs. I might be wrong but most of the peo­ple mis­take it for ‘heart’ and those who know its eng­lish trans­la­tion take it to be an excep­tional usage in poetry. “nazar ke saamne, jigar ke paaskoi [...]
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