The strings of the santoor lie loose, The notebook bearing five-hundred compositions is covered with dust, Where is the music that filled these rooms, Where has the santoor maestro gone?…
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It was hard to believe when you left us, A shock to our existences, A joy-wrencher, a peace-snatcher. For years you walked on earth with tough-feet, And carried…
She was a ray of lightSourced by an unknown and unknowable fire within -Unencumbered by surroundings and society,She lit a room full of people by her intense enigmatic smileAnd imbued little…
We hardly knew you Bhajanji, A year has passed since you unexpectedly left us, A year of intense suffering and slow-burning pain. We searched for you in the corners…
It is something that the world remembers you after death, But for a moment I would burn our love and reclaim my freedom, As in our times it is a…
Where do we find you Bhajan, In the shy Wullar waters of Sopore, Or in the regal Nishat and Shalimar gardens? Your carefully managed long tresses of hair, Well…
There were times when some people thought I was a pure specimen of life, But such adulation was rare and far between, Most of my life I was a…
Why are we blindly welcoming the arrival of new year, Weren’t last few years our pained existence? Does man have wisdom, Or is he a natural phenomenon unguidable? …
Her word was soft, Her footsteps were softer, Yet her presence was louder than others. Today we grieve the friend we lost, The light that was shut off, The…
Welcome after your long journey on high oceans, Storms and lost directions, confusions and calamities, The world is a cyclone without a rest, It defies meaning and feeling. While…