A Ghazal that touches your heart everytime you read it by Irfan Abid. You can read more poetry by Abid Sahib, posted all over the web. I haven’t talked to him in a while, but I have always wanted to archive this Ghazal somewhere.. and what better place to put it than my own blog. [...]
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Tera Nasha – The Bilz & Kashif
In October, 2010, the Bilz & Kashif released a video for the song “Tera Nasha” from their latest album “Breaking Barriers” available on iTunes. The songs lyrics (the Hindi part) written by me is presented here in this post. The English parts were written by Kashif himself and they are included here as well. Enjoy [...]
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The Bilz & Kashif recently released the video for Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na, another song for which the hindi lyrics were written by yours truly. The English lyrics, as usual, are written by Kashif himself. Enjoy the video along with the lyrics: Lyrics VERSE 1 Kabhi haan kabhi na karti hai Bol zara ye chakkar [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Bilzmusic — Breaking Barriers – tanhai
Now that Bilzmusic have released their album “Breaking Barriers” {link to itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/breaking-barriers/id364930732} I figured I’d post some of the lyrics of the songs that I have written Here’s one: Tanhaii haaye sulagati tanhaai betaabiyaaN javaaN afsurda afsurda aaNkheiN DhooNDheiN tere nishaaN meri muhabbat, meri ibaadat meri vafaa zaKhm bane dil ke armaaN raNg yahaaN [...]
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nazm uljhi hui hai seene meiN – a nazm by Gulzaar with video (sung by Bhupinder)
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The BILZ & Kashif have come out with two new tracks recently, one of which was written by me (the Punjabi Lyrics that is), so ideal to post the song here and .. voila: You can go ahead and buy the tune on iTunes, in fact get on it right now and buy it! Oh [...]
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Here are some couplets I read today by Riaz Khairabadi zaahid sharaab peene de, masjid meiN baiTh kar yaa vo jagah bataa de jahaaN par Khudaa na ho Khuda ke haath hai bikna na bikna ma_e kaa ab saaqi baraabar masjid-e-jaame’ ke ab rakh di dukaaN maiN ne —————————– Hasrat Mohani: nahiiN aati to yaad [...]
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There’s this feeling, that one can get, every now and then, of something nagging. It doesn’t necessarily have to do with anything.. anything in particular, but something.. perhaps, someone, perhaps not. I think in this new nazm, I tried to capture it, though I might have failed miserably, but heck, it ended up being a [...]
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Some ash’aar by Munawwar Rana siyaasi aadmi ki shakl to pyaari nikaltii hai magar jab guftagoo karta hai chingaari nikaltii hai laboN par muskuraahaT dil meiN bezaari nikalti hai baRe logoN meiN hi aksar ye beemaari nikalti hai —— balandi der tak kis shaKhs ke hisse meiN rahtii hai bahut uuNchii imaarat har ghaRi Khatre [...]
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