Ghalib's Ghazals... and more
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Ravishanker Naik once more recites and explains ghazals to his heart's delight - and to ours. This time, the flavor of the language is decidedly Urdu (with quite a bit of English translation, and some Gujarati too.)
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Yesha,
Truly a heart warming rendition. Enjoyed the jugal-bandi kind of atmosphere that was created between father and daughter...the gentle prodding and inquiring followed by the effusive response!
Deserves a generous round of Vah, vah...
Tushar
Truly a heart warming rendition. Enjoyed the jugal-bandi kind of atmosphere that was created between father and daughter...the gentle prodding and inquiring followed by the effusive response!
Deserves a generous round of Vah, vah...
Tushar
Hello Mohan,
Thank you for kind words, once more. My father was very pleased to learn of the link to Kaifi Azmi's readings, and spent some time listening to him as well as some of the other writers reading their works for the Library of Congress of India... What a wonderful site!
I also loved the poems of Kaifi Azmi that you quoted. Thank you!
Best,
Yesha
Thank you for kind words, once more. My father was very pleased to learn of the link to Kaifi Azmi's readings, and spent some time listening to him as well as some of the other writers reading their works for the Library of Congress of India... What a wonderful site!
I also loved the poems of Kaifi Azmi that you quoted. Thank you!
Best,
Yesha
Hello Yesha,
What a lovely surprise! Thank you for this wonderful duet with your father in the best tradition of Guru Shishya Parampara.
How redeeming to hear a Gujarati extolling the Ghazal's of Mirza Ghalib. That itself is a political statement on multiculturalism!
The great poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi is considered as the 20th century Mirza Ghalib. You can listen to his readings of his poetry :
www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/kaifiazmi.html
For Kaifi Azmi, poetry was a form of resistance, an articulation of the self's protest against the dominance of stifling orthodoxies and the pathologies of power.
After the demolition of the Babri Mosque, Kaifi Azmi wrote his most moving testament; "Doosra Banwas" (The second banishment):
"When Ram returned home after his banishment
He remembered the jungle sorely as he entered the city
When he looked at the dance of insanity in his courtyard
Ram must have wondered on 6th December
How could so many lunatics enter into my house
Barely had Ram washed his feet in the Sarayu
That he witnessed there dark stains of blood
Without washing his feet Ram rose from the banks abandoning his abode he said
The clime of the capital didn't take kindly to me
On 6th December I got my second banishment."
And then there is the prophetic vision of religious violence:
"They pride in robbing the possessions of the workers
Not mere possessions but the honour of the women
Smashing the skulls of children with boots in the playgrounds
Waving the bodies of infants on the bayonets
Hating the learned, despising the artists
Wrecking schools, setting libraries to fire
Digging up and destroying with pride
The graves of poets, the mausoleum of the story-tellers"
Like your father, Kaifi Azmi has a wonderful daughter whose interview you might be interested to read :
www.asiasource.org/news/special_reports/azmi.cfm
:-)
Mohan
What a lovely surprise! Thank you for this wonderful duet with your father in the best tradition of Guru Shishya Parampara.
How redeeming to hear a Gujarati extolling the Ghazal's of Mirza Ghalib. That itself is a political statement on multiculturalism!
The great poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi is considered as the 20th century Mirza Ghalib. You can listen to his readings of his poetry :
www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/kaifiazmi.html
For Kaifi Azmi, poetry was a form of resistance, an articulation of the self's protest against the dominance of stifling orthodoxies and the pathologies of power.
After the demolition of the Babri Mosque, Kaifi Azmi wrote his most moving testament; "Doosra Banwas" (The second banishment):
"When Ram returned home after his banishment
He remembered the jungle sorely as he entered the city
When he looked at the dance of insanity in his courtyard
Ram must have wondered on 6th December
How could so many lunatics enter into my house
Barely had Ram washed his feet in the Sarayu
That he witnessed there dark stains of blood
Without washing his feet Ram rose from the banks abandoning his abode he said
The clime of the capital didn't take kindly to me
On 6th December I got my second banishment."
And then there is the prophetic vision of religious violence:
"They pride in robbing the possessions of the workers
Not mere possessions but the honour of the women
Smashing the skulls of children with boots in the playgrounds
Waving the bodies of infants on the bayonets
Hating the learned, despising the artists
Wrecking schools, setting libraries to fire
Digging up and destroying with pride
The graves of poets, the mausoleum of the story-tellers"
Like your father, Kaifi Azmi has a wonderful daughter whose interview you might be interested to read :
www.asiasource.org/news/special_reports/azmi.cfm
:-)
Mohan
