POST 55: Gham ka khazana tera bhi hai mera bhee
ग़म का ख़ज़ाना तेरा भी है, मेरा भी
This ghazal was written by the famous poet Shahid Kabir ( born 01.05.1932- died 11.05.2001). He was an Indian poet from Maharashtra who spent most of his time in Nagpur. His important works include a novel ‘ kachchi deewaran’ published in 1958, and collections of ghazals ‘ Charon aaur’ published in 1968 and another collection of ghazals called ‘Pehchaan ‘ published in 1999. He served as a member, Board of studies for Urdu language, Nagpur University from 1991 to 1995. His poems have been included in the Maharashtra State Board of Education text books of Urdu language for 12th standard.
This ghazal uses very simple words but has deep meaning and strong sense of sympathy and empathy.
Jagjit Singh and Lata Mageshkar together weave a magical spell which takes this ghazal to another level.
Both of them don’t need an introduction so I am desisting !
Important words:
ग़म: sorrow; ख़ज़ाना: treasure;अफ़साना: episode; राग़: way of doing things; मयख़ाने: Tavern;वाईज़: learned man, preacher, guide;
ग़म का ख़ज़ाना तेरा भी है, मेरा भी
ये अफ़साना तेरा भी है, मेरा भी
The shared treasure of deep sorrows, hurts, anguish,
despair belongs to both of us!
This episode, this sad affair belongs to you and me!!
अपने ग़म को गीत बना कर गा लेना
राग़ पुराना तेरा भी है, मेरा भी
ग़म का ख़ज़ाना...
We do convert this anguish into a song and make sing it too!
That is your way of doing things and so is it mine!!
तू मुझको और मैं तुझको समझाऊं क्या?
दिल दीवाना तेरा भी है, मेरा भी!
ग़म का ख़ज़ाना...
How can I console you or how can you soothe or provide succour to me?
After all your heart and mine both are obsessed and haunted!
शहर मे गलियों-गलियों जिसका चर्चा है
वो अफ़साना तेरा भी है, मेरा भी
ग़म का ख़ज़ाना...
The entire town is buzzing, gossiping about the affair!
That episode is yours and equally mine!!
मयख़ाने की बात न कर वाईज़ मुझसे
आना-जाना तेरा भी है, मेरा भी
ग़म का ख़ज़ाना...
Oh learned wise and sacred man, my
guide, please don’t preach to me about not to visit the tavern!
I know you also frequent it and so do I !!
Pratibha Singh Baghel has appeared in my blogs more than once.
Gargi Ghosh is a singer who has worked mainly in Bengal with some forays in ghazal singing. She had formal training in music and obtained a Masters in music from Rabindra Bharti University in 2001. She is a disciple of Pandit Ajai Chakraborty since 1999. Her singing style suits ghazal singing.
Pranay Mathur is a young singer and guitarist from Delhi, who has sung this ghazal in a very intimate manner bringing out the finer nuances of this beautiful ghazal. He has been a mehfil singer and has appeared in several 5 star hotel gatherings.
Vandana Srinivasan, Abhay Jodhpurkar and guitarist Napier Peter Naveen Kumar has presented this ghazal as part of ‘The Revival Series’.
Vandana, a rather young person (born 22.05.1988), is a classical singer who is very active in Tamil movies. She works mainly as an independent singer.
Abhay Jodhpurkar (Born 31.07.1991) is from a musical Marathi family , as his paternal grandfather was a Hindustani classical singer. He did B. Tech Biotechnology. He debuted with Kannada film God Father in 2012.
Napier Peter Naveen Kumar is a bass guitarist. He was born and brought in Abu Dhabi and moved to Chennai in 2010. He has performed at BPC -Berklee Performance Centre in Boston, USA.
This is the fifty fifth blog and now onwards these would appear on first and fifteenth of every month. enjoy the bouquet of different flavours, textures, tastes and feel of these varied styles of singing!
