Yashwant Singh ji, Namaskar,\u00a0 The link that I sent you for Ghalib ke Khutoot, I forgot to tell you that you may want to play back all of audio by one, Mahakavi.\u00a0 These all are recited by Ziya Mohiuddin, I think,\u00a0 and possibly the best. I find that after each one of these all sorts of videos of various singers pop up, distracting.\u00a0 Therefore, I look for numbered sequence and play.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
If you can have someone listen to all the letters of Ghalib and write in Devanagari script keeping Urdu words intact, it would be one of the greatest service to Urdu and Ghalib’s work.\u00a0 I have tried to get these in Hindi for at least 15 years but no luck.\u00a0 None of the Urdu anjuman anywhere cared to do that.\u00a0 There is another Diwan of Ghalib, Nuskha-e-Hamidiya which has Ghalib’s earlier poetry with more Persian in it.\u00a0 This is what my grandfather used to refer to to read instead of Diwan-e-Ghalib.\u00a0 After years of searching I found this in Bhopal and got two copies.<\/p>\n
One I gave to a friend and asked him to pay to someone to read it in a cassette recorder.\u00a0 In short this is what I got as areply: “it is too difficult, has Persian words in it.” The other I brought with me.\u00a0 Just about a year ago I came across a man who reads, writes Urdu and agreed to read it for me in a tape recorder.\u00a0 I went to his apartment with the book and tapes, and he read for half hour. Then I suggested that he can keep the recorder and the book and let me know how it is coming along.\u00a0 Well, he shifted, not too far though,\u00a0 and I lost track of him so I not only lost the tapes he may have made but the book also.\u00a0 The tape recorder is the least of my loss.<\/p>\n
Over the years my experience is that if I asked for qalaaqand, gulabjamun, aur pajama kurta, I will get two of everything, but when I asked for a book, I’d never get it :):). In 1975 Sahitya Akadami published a series of Bhartiya Sahitya Ke Nirmaataa.\u00a0 In that series there was one, Ghalib by Mohammad Mujeeb, transliterated in Devanagari by Ramesh Gaur\u00a0 It is very good.\u00a0 It was four rupees then. I have it. Main aapko ek she’r aur bhejta hoon Ghalib ka.\u00a0 Jaisaa maine aap ko pehle likha hai main kuchh apne notes, Ghalib Study Circle se, aur Ghalib ke Khutoot, aur Ali Sardar Jafri ki kitab se madad letaa hoon.<\/p>\n
Zulmatkade* mein mere **shab-e-gham ka josh hai
Ek sham’a hai ***daleel-e-sehar so ****kha’mosh hai<\/p>\n
*Andhera Ghar
**Gham ki raat ka toofan (Ghalib ne iske ma’ani khud likhe hain-Andhera hee Andhera).
***Subah hone ka suboot ( Kyo’n ki shama subah bujh jaati hai)
****Bujh gayee hai.<\/p>\n
Yeh ghazal ka matla hai.<\/p>\n
Yeh ghazal Ghalib ki sabse behetreen ghazalon mein maanee jaati hai.\u00a0 Ismein us zamane ki bhaavnaao’n ko Ghalib ne samet liya hai.\u00a0 Ghalib ne apne khat mein likha hai ki: subah shama bujh jaati hai aur jis ghar mein bujhee huee shama subah hone ki daleel (suboot, prateek) ho, woh ghar kitna andhera hoga.\u00a0 Yaani ki subah ki roshni nahin hai jis se yeh lage ki din nikal aayaa hai.\u00a0 Shama ka bujhna sehar hone ki daleel hai.\u00a0 Itna gahan andhera hai.<\/p>\n
Ummeed hai<\/p>\n
Regards,
Krishna Narayan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yashwant Singh ji, Namaskar,\u00a0 The link that I sent you for Ghalib ke Khutoot, I forgot to tell you that you may want to play back all of audio by one, Mahakavi.\u00a0 These all are recited by Ziya Mohiuddin, I think,\u00a0 and possibly the best. I find that after each one of these all sorts of videos of various singers pop up, distracting.\u00a0 Therefore, I look for numbered sequence and play.<\/p>\n
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