Poetry
Apni Marzi Se Kahaan Apne Safar - Jagjit Singh
Rukh Hawaon ka jidhar ka hai…
Just a little something from Ghalib
Aah ko chahiye ik umr asar hone tak
Kaun jeeta hai teri zulf ke sir hone tak
Shiv Kumar batalvi’s - Mainu Tera Shabab Lai Baitha
Ladies and Gentlemen, Shiv Batalvi once again for you. Makes me feel like getting my Chianti bottle.
Mainu tera shabab lai baitha,
Rang gora gulab lai baitha,
Mainu tera shabab lai baitha,
Mainu tera shabab lai baitha
Kini Piti te kini baaki eh,
Kini Piti te kini baaki eh,
Mainu eho hisaab lai baitha,
Mainu tera shabab lai baitha
Wel jad vi mili hai [...]
Just putting them here so that these words are not lost in time
aaj fir qatl ke ilzaam se bachne ke vaaste,
ro rahe hain mujhe sooli pe chadhaane waale.
Maae Ni Maae - Shiv Kumar Batalvi
This is just an annexe to the original post by Sameer on Shiv Kumar Batalvi. I just cannot read, listen to this one a lot. And whenever I do listen or read it, I regret my attempt. This is a poem by Shiv Kumar Batalvi and this video below is of Nusrat singing Shiv’s creation. [...]
An era gone by: Shiv Kumar Batalvi
AJ’s post about the song from Chitrelekha reminded me of a poet whose poetry I’ve always found to have an underlying sense of sensitivity, the kind I haven’t experienced in anything else. Shiv Kumar Batalvi was a punjabi poet, who in many ways personified his poetry.
Shiv Kumar (born July 23, 1936 in Bara Pind Lohtian, [...]