♫ Everyday People ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Most often, I just like a song for the music … the tune, the singer(s), the rhythm, and there is no real rhyme nor reason … I just like what I like.  But there are a few songs that I also like for the message, and Everyday People is one of those.  Today, in the […]

♫ Everyday People ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Good People Doing Good Things — Teresa Gray and Mobile Medics International — Filosofa’s Word

It was less than a year ago, April 2022, when Teresa Gray and her wonderful organization, Mobile Medics International came onto my radar and I wrote a post about their origins, and also about their trip to Romania to help refugees fleeing Ukraine after the Russian invasion in February.   Ms. Gray was a CNN Hero […]

Good People Doing Good Things — Teresa Gray and Mobile Medics International — Filosofa’s Word

A Poet For All Seasons

Kaushal Kishore

मर्दों के लिए हर ज़ुल्म रवां, औरत के लिए रोना भी खता।
मर्दों के लिए लाखों सेजें, औरत के लिए बस एक चिता।
मर्दों के लिए हर ऐश का हक, औरत के लिए जीना भी सज़ा।
जब जी चाहा मसला कुचला, जब जी चाहा धुत्कार दिया।
औरत ने जनम दिया मर्दों को, मर्दों ने उसे बाज़ार दिया।

(While crying is a sin for a woman, all tyranny by men is justified…
All pleasures are the right of men, while even living is retribution for a woman…
Men have right to many beds of desire, women have just the pyre…
Crushed her whenever he wanted, reprimanded her whenever he wanted…
A woman gave birth to men, who sold her in the market…)

Can you imagine who has written the above lyrics? Not a woman. He was Sahir, Sahir Ludhianvi, noted poet and lyricist, who was destined to be born on this…

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