I was sitting in the library near a window preparing for the exams on Friday. I opened a music site and searched for something randomly and just bumped into to this song by Jagjit singh and Gulzar. Recently I had come across a reviewer who said that he loves gazals but not jagjit’s for the reason that all his songs sounded the same. But I would ask him a question. “Where else exactly would you find songs that soothe your pained heart?” Jagjit presents to you a masochistic pleasure by reminding what you have lost, what follies you committed and gifts you with daggers to prick your own heart.
I was listening to this song and exactly at that moment, I saw a father carrying his baby daughter on his shoulders and crossing the road. My thoughts returned to my greatest loss, my father.
It is a year since you are gone and I am far, far away here in another part of the world. But I still see you everyday and talk to you as you help me to cross this busy road.
Aap agar in dino yehan hote … Hum Zamin par bhala kahaan hote…
