Dec 23 2007
Here is a Nazm by Javed Akhtar from his book, Tarkash. This is one of my favorites from the book. I think the message is about how everything you own so dearly and strive for fades away at the end. You came in the world empty-handed, and so shall you leave. Meanwhile, enjoy the Nazm in Javed Akhtar’s voice.
[audio:http://gattu80.googlepages.com/JavedAkhtar-Shikast.mp3]
The last puff of the day-wind brought from the unseen villages the scent of damp wood smoke, hot cakes, dripping undergrowth, and rotting pine-cones. That smell is the true smell of the Himalayas, and if it once gets into the blood of a man he will, at the last, forgetting everything else, return to the Hills to die. - Rudyard Kipling
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