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Dastaan-e-Chatta-Satoon
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:59
Publish Date: 2022-07-28 05:00:00
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Music Composition: Anitha Dixit
Lyrics: Vikram Ramanarayanan
Tabla: Ajay Sundar Raj
Harmonium: Surya Saraf
Vocals: Anitha Dixit, Ritwik Verma, Prathamesh Kamat, Sujit Saraf, Ritesh Nayak, Savitha Gayathri, Surya Saraf, Vikram Ramanarayanan

This song is a part of The 6th Pillar - Naatak's 99th Production, 
Written andDirected by Vikram Ramanarayanan
July23-Aug7, 2022
https://www.naatak.org/2022-thesixthpillar/

Daastaan-e-Chhataa-Satoon (The Tale of The Sixth Pillar)

Saraab-e-jannat mein masroof they hum      So engrossed in the mirage of paradise were we
Qazi ki nazar se posheeda har qadam              At every step invisible to the powers that be
Khoon ki qurbani to de chuke hum/qasam    Bonds of blood we did sacrifice as well
Ab pahuch gaye dehleez-e-jahannum              Now here we stand at the gates of hell

Sahraa banaa sahaaraa, iska nahi tha gam     
     The desert turned refuge, dismayed we were not
Par qafas-e-khanjar mein taaze huay zakham
     But that cage of daggers reopened wounds we'd forgot
Kahaan libaas - tameez ke shaukeen, besharam?
     Where once we were fashionable, dignified, clean
Ab dekhne-sunne ki mehaz ban gaye misaal hum
      Now we remain but an example, to be heard and seen

Tehreer-e-taqdeer se haare mohtaram         The writ of fate has dealt a fatal blow
Dard-e-duhaai ab huaa madham                       Our painful pleas now drowning out, slow
Gardish-e-wajood mein fanaa beraqam        This existential struggle has us destroyed, bereft
Khwaaish-e-khaaliq se qissa mukhtatam     And now ending this story is all that's left.

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