Bahadur Shah Zafar Quotes

Although a Bahadur Shah Zafar road still survives in Delhi, as indeed do roads named after all the other Great Mughals, for many Indians today, rightly or wrongly, the Mughals are still perceived as it suited the British to portray them in the imperial propaganda that they taught in Indian schools after 1857: as sensual, decadent, temple-destroying invaders – something that was forcefully and depressingly demonstrated by the whole episode of the demoliton of the Baburi Masjid at Ayodhya in 1992.

la.Daa kar aa.nkh us se ham ne dushman kar liyaa apnaa nigah ko naaz ko andaaz ko abruu ko mizhgaa.n ko The poet/lover has made himself an easy target for the killing effect of the glance, pride, eyebrows and eyelashes of the beloved. He was so foolish to have fixed his eyes at the beloved.

in hasrato.n se kah do kahii.n aur jaa base.n itnii jagah kahaa.n hai dil-e-daaG-daar me.n The poet/lover wants desires to find some other place to live because his heart is already full of suffering.