{"id":23319,"date":"2014-02-15T13:37:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T18:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/forum\/?p=23319"},"modified":"2014-02-15T13:38:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T18:38:16","slug":"ghalib-death-silent-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/ghalib-death-silent-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghalib on Death &#8211; Silent Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pzi5ifhNSz0?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today is Death Anniversary of Ghalib Chacha. I did not know it but the coincidence is I have been listening \/ reading to his Poetry \/ Ghazals since morning today&#8230;and I did find this time after months now !!  Then I got to know from Sputnik that today happens to be his death anniversary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He never got acclaim which he gets today or since after his death. <\/p>\n<p>Couple of couplets of Ghalib which show he was against the idea of public funeral \/ gathering of ppl crying for the one who is no more and all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Both are in different context and different Ghazals..<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b><\/i><br \/>\nMujh ko diyar-e gair me mara vatan se dur<br \/>\nrakh li khuda ne meri bekasi sharm.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nbekasi == hopelessness, loneliness<\/p>\n<p>He (God) killed me away from home, and I thank Him for that. If I had died at my home, I would have been left without shroud or burial and that would have been very embarrassing.<br \/>\nAway from home, though ..no one knows me and its OK \ud83d\ude42 .. not much embarrassment.<br \/>\n[This in a way indicated that Ghalib is saying &#8211; hardly anyone appreciated him when he was alive]<\/p>\n<p>Now the couplet which is in the song posted above at the Top:<\/p>\n<p><b><i>hue mar ke ham jo rusavaa, hue kyo.N na Garq-e-dariyaa<br \/>\nna kabhii janaazaa uThataa, na kahii.n mazaar hotaa<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nHaving died in disgrace, why didnt I just drawn in the ocean\/river? (garq-e-dariyaa)<br \/>\nFor then, no coffin had been raised (janaazaa) , nor any grave(mazaar) built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Death Anniversary of Ghalib Chacha. I did not know it but the coincidence is I have been listening \/ reading to his Poetry \/ Ghazals since morning today&#8230;and I did find this time after months now !! Then I got to know from Sputnik that today happens to be his death anniversary&#8230; He never got acclaim which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":211593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,471],"tags":[6205,6216,1216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}