Shah Hayat

Nasir Bhai has shared way too many couplets and pieces of Urdu literature with me for me to let them go unmentioned. First and foremost I shall try to preserve here in this pale ink all that he has shared with me: Starting from the very first: Khair ki Kamai bhi Ahle-Shar Main Batt Gayee; Jhoot ki is Dunya main Such Ki Jeb Cut Gayee! Tasleem-o-Adaab Nasir R. Zaidi (shared at 00:46 on the 11th of February 2010) The rest that I share and will periodically do so will just contain the data shared that one as it was the first to have been shared by Nasir Bhai includes a Date/Time Stamp as matter of record only ;-) Ruba'i: Kantoon mein reh kar bhi Hum Zindagi Jee Laitay Hain; Har Zakham ko Apne Haathoon say See Laitay Hain; Jis Haath ko Keh Diya Hum nay Dost Ka Haath: Hum us haath say ZEHAR bhi pee Laitay Hain! Shair: Kuch Khushi Kay Saye Main aur Kuch Ghamoon Kay Saath Saath Zindagi Meri Katt hee Rahi hai Uljhanoon Kay Saath Saath! Musaddas: Kisi Toofan main ja...

Nothing could state more aptly the purpose of this blog. I have too much random information stashed up here and there - on my phone - in my books - in the form of random notes on coffee shop tissues or scribbled onto scraps of paper. Sooner or later I'll end up loosing on of them. I'm posting things here to only help myself recall things when I need them. An online repository of literature that I find useful enough to store.