Tuesday, 26 May 2015

मेरी मन्नत तू - An Innocent Desire


शायर: नारायण-चन्द्र रऊफ 

Penned By Narayan-Chandra Rauf

सीढ़िया चढ़ते चढ़ते हम ने मन्नत क्या माँगी सर झुकाए काँची के शिवाले में
हसरत पूरी हुई, पर खुश्बू टपकी हैं
घटती  उम्र के प्याले में
ये कैसा तेरा इंसाफ़, ये कैसा हिसाब के अंधीयारे छिड़के हैं तेरे उजाले में

Penned By B D Narayankar

Sidiyaan chadte chadte humney mannat kya mangi sar jhukaye
Kanchi k shivale mein
Hasarat puri huyi par khusbhu aa tapki hain ghathati umar k
pyaale mein
Ye kaisa Tera insaaf, ye kaisa hisaab k andhiyare chidke hain
Tere ujaale mein


Inspiration behind the above poem 


This one is inspired by ...

When I was 14-15, I had been to stay with my father, an official at Survey of India, during summer vacations for two months. He had his six-month camp based at Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu.

Tamil Nadu fascinates me because of its spiritual ambiance all across. Kancheepuram is no exception.

As any teen-aged boy, I was as romantic as any among my peer group. This was in 1982 - some of whom I know were not even born and some born four years hence.

I always fantasized about TamBramh girls ... had liking for Hema Malini ... madly ... even now that has not dissipated.

Given the charms of this actress I always desired for a traditional TamBrah girl as my partner ...

Innocently, I used to climb all the steps of Tamil Nadu temples including the famous temples of Kancheepuram and pray for a TamBrahm  ...

Years passed by none came into my life ... Married a Marathi girl ...

But, suddenly one fine day a girl came into my life ... girl exactly I had wished for while climbing the steps of Tamil Nadu temples ...

She came into my life when I am beginning to enter the pre-evening of my life.

God can you be so ungrateful to me who had never complained of whatever you dished out - good or bad, sorrows or happiness, every moment of my life.

Coming Up Next: The Sleeping Moon

Kya aapne zameen ko chaand ke saath sote huye dekha? 

Humney dekha ...

Asoon bhar aate hain ....

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