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Another Ghazal by Kaifi Azmi.

(I ended up giving it a title that is also the title of the Kannada version of the book "Quest" by Leopald Infeld, translated by my mother. I could not find the reference to on the net.)

muMdOgOd OgtAirli

Once again, I have to seek the good will of G P Rajaratnam and Kaifi Azmi. Azmi called it a Ghazal. The title that represents the progressive intentions is mine.

aramane

aramane is another poem of Kaifi Azmi that moves me whenever I read it. The irony of the workers becoming strangers soon after a house is built had struck me a long time ago. When I read the poem for the first time, it felt as if he had voiced my own thoughts!

I wonder what was the fate of the sculptors who built the temples in the olden days.

laKanau

Here is another poem of Kaifi Azmi, one of my favourites. The original's depth of feeling is impossible to catch and translate.

taMtiya mElina hakki

Baravase

One more poem of Kaifi Azmi. This may not look very appropriate today when India boasts of foreign reserves, reserves of food grains etc. 'Old timers' can identify with this poem, easily.

On the other hand, the poor remain poor or have grown poorer, the rich, enormously more rich.

One does not seem to know (or care) if one should feel proud or sad or enraged or ....

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dhairya

It is good that blogger.com has "TRIED " to introduce Kannada blogging. But what it has achieved is NOT Kannada. What a pity. So, I continue using the version provided by baraha.com which is excellent.

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upadESa (Advice)

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Kaifi Azmi's poem called Mashvire = Advice

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