Punjabi
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 [...]
Charkha - Wadali Brothers
I would be highly grateful if someone gives me complete lyrics for this song with the proper translation. I can understand some of it and the initial wordings do have a translation in the video itself but I still need the complete lyrics. A beautiful Punjabi song.
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. [...]
Avengi Ja Nahin
Recently, the video of Rabbi’s latest album’s title track was released. The song consists of all the sounds we have come to associate with Rabbi Shergill.
It seems to be on a lighter note as compared to the other songs in the album which are considered to be about communal voilence. Nevertheless, it sounds very catchy [...]
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, [...]