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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 [...]
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