The world is fast paced. Every thing is instant. Na koi aag ka dariya hai, na doob ke jaana hai, yeh instant jammana hai...
My mother says that love was a passion in their time but it has become a fashion now. We fell in love but not for the heck of flaunting it on one particular day. I said, love is still a passion perhaps this day has made it a fashion.
However, majority of the people love this day to celebrate it as a day of love though most of them dont know the origin and history of this day. This ignorance is not an exception.
One name Mirza ghalib is very famous for love poetry but most of the people dont know that his anniversary comes a day after Valentines day. One of my friends think that he is a fictional character of black and white days of celluloid.
I met a young boy at Mirza Ghalib ki Haweli on valentines day. He said, that his style of love has become very old fashioned now. Nobody cares about these things.
But exceptions are every where...
Sarah and Clement, a spanish- french couple came to Mirza Ghalib ki Haveli to spend their V- day. Sarah fell in love with Ghalib's poetry after reading a translation of one of his verses..
"Yeh Ishq nahin aasan, itna samajh leejiye,
ek aag ka dariya hai aur doob ke jaana hai...
Mohd Ajmal, an old resident of Chandni Chowk thinks that difference between Ghalib's sense of love and today's love is as similar to the difference between nai dilli and purani dilli."Nai dilli looks beautifull but i dont feel the warmth which i feel in purani dilli. Similarly, these days people flaunt their love but it lacks depth and warmth."
'arz-e-niyaaz-e-ishq ke qaabil naheeN raha
jis dil pe naaz tha mujhe wo dil naheeN raha"
He said, "this verse of Ghalib is perfect for this generation which can confine love to only one day of year."
A very small portion of this haveli is kept by Govt. of India as a heritage site. The owner of the Haveli says that "we take rent from all other portions of the haveli except this and it doesnt makes a difference for us as Ghalib never piad rent to my great grand father in his life time."
This small portion of Haveli is so much full of love and pain that you dont need a single glittering day to feel that.
I came back from the Haveli and went to PVR Priyas to watch a movie in the evening. I could see countless couples roaming there with gifts, mostly from archies. Ghalib sahab would have never written "Yeh ishq nahin asaan" if he would have ever visited Archies gallery.
But I do feel that even in this time..."yeh ishq nahin assan"... Hats off to Ghalib Sahab... Happy Valantines day to you too...
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