this is a couplet from the ghazal by a lesser known poet from Delhi-6...ironical how shahjahanabad has been confined to a kafkaesque number that is made a travesty of by the bombay film industry.
loo ke thapede khate khate, kusht e tamanna sookh gaya
pani ki ek boond na barsi, baadal ghir ghir aye bahut!
ishq jinho ke dhyan para woh, pehle to itraye bahut
boor ke laddoo khane wale, peeche phir pachtaye bahut!
these couplets are exemplary of the delhi style because of the incredibly easy use of muhavra, the delhi idiom.
loo ke thapede... are something every delhi wala would know very well...loo is a Delhi phenomenon...and it is certainly not the 'loo' that we go to these days.
boor ke laddoo...is an idiom for a desire that remains unsatisfied even as you seem to have clenched it...boor is a shorter version of boora, khaand or icing sugar...the muhavara is itself beautiful as it is the most approximate rendering of the elusive object of desire...the moment you hold on to them they break and fall....you might have come across it in the old urdu rhyme for children..
chanda mama door ke, bade pakayen boor ke
Saturday, May 30, 2009
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- aahu e khutan
- Senior assistant professor at Zakir Husain Delhi College (Eve.) of the Delhi University
Saturday, May 30, 2009
some more couplets
this is a couplet from the ghazal by a lesser known poet from Delhi-6...ironical how shahjahanabad has been confined to a kafkaesque number that is made a travesty of by the bombay film industry.
loo ke thapede khate khate, kusht e tamanna sookh gaya
pani ki ek boond na barsi, baadal ghir ghir aye bahut!
ishq jinho ke dhyan para woh, pehle to itraye bahut
boor ke laddoo khane wale, peeche phir pachtaye bahut!
these couplets are exemplary of the delhi style because of the incredibly easy use of muhavra, the delhi idiom.
loo ke thapede... are something every delhi wala would know very well...loo is a Delhi phenomenon...and it is certainly not the 'loo' that we go to these days.
boor ke laddoo...is an idiom for a desire that remains unsatisfied even as you seem to have clenched it...boor is a shorter version of boora, khaand or icing sugar...the muhavara is itself beautiful as it is the most approximate rendering of the elusive object of desire...the moment you hold on to them they break and fall....you might have come across it in the old urdu rhyme for children..
chanda mama door ke, bade pakayen boor ke
loo ke thapede khate khate, kusht e tamanna sookh gaya
pani ki ek boond na barsi, baadal ghir ghir aye bahut!
ishq jinho ke dhyan para woh, pehle to itraye bahut
boor ke laddoo khane wale, peeche phir pachtaye bahut!
these couplets are exemplary of the delhi style because of the incredibly easy use of muhavra, the delhi idiom.
loo ke thapede... are something every delhi wala would know very well...loo is a Delhi phenomenon...and it is certainly not the 'loo' that we go to these days.
boor ke laddoo...is an idiom for a desire that remains unsatisfied even as you seem to have clenched it...boor is a shorter version of boora, khaand or icing sugar...the muhavara is itself beautiful as it is the most approximate rendering of the elusive object of desire...the moment you hold on to them they break and fall....you might have come across it in the old urdu rhyme for children..
chanda mama door ke, bade pakayen boor ke
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