Meg Index | August 2001 Index

Date: 31-Aug-2001
Poet: Meena Kumari 'Naaz'


Meena Kumari, the 'tragedy queen' of Indian Cinema, was 
a well known 'shaayaraa' of her times. On her death, she 
bequeathed 250 diaries of her nazms, ghazals and ashaar 
to Gulzar. Some of her ghazals and nazms were released 
in an album titled "I write, I recite" ("Mere Nazm, Meri 
Zabani" in Hindi) by Gulzar.

I have posted a ghazal from this album earlier (MeG #132). 
Here is another ghazal from the same album:


aaGaaz to hotaa hai anjaam nahii.n hotaa 
jab merii kahaanii me.n vo naam nahii.n hotaa 

[aaGaaz = start; anjaam = end/result]

jab zulf kii kaalikh me.n ghul jaaye ko_ii rahii 
bad_naam sahii lekin gum_naam nahii.n hotaa 

[kaalikh = blackness]

ha.Ns ha.Ns ke javaa.N dil ke ham kyo.n na chune.n Tuka.De 
har shaKhs kii qismat me.n inaam nahiin hotaa 

bahate hue aa.Nsuu ne aa.Nkho.n se kahaa tham kar
jo mai se pighal jaaye vo jaam nahii.n hotaa

din Duube hai.n yaa Duubii baaraat liye kashtii 
saahil pe magar ko_ii koharaam nahiin hotaa