One of my favourite Gazal: Hazaron Khwahishen Aisi - Jagjit Singh.
Artist: Jagjit Singh
Album: Mirza Ghalib
hazaaron Khvaahishen aisii ki har Khvaaish pe dam nikale
bahut nikale mere armaaN lekin phir bhii kam nikale
nikalanaa Khuld se aadam kaa sunate aaye hain lekin
bahut beaabaruu hokar tere kuuche se ham nikale
muhabbat men nahiin hai farq jiine aur marane kaa
usii ko dekh kar jiite hain jis kaafir pe dam nikale
Khudaa ke vaaste pardaa na kaabe se uThaa zaalim
Kahiin aisaa na ho yaaN bhii vahii kaafir sanam nikale
KahaaN maiKhaane ka daravaazaa 'Ghalib' aur kahaaN vaaiz
par itanaa jaanate hain kal vo jaataa thaa ke ham nikale
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Translation:
Thousands of desires, each worth dying for...
Many of them I have realized...yet I yearn for more...
We have heard about the dismissal of Adam from Heaven
With more humiliation, I am leaving the street on which you live...
When in love, there is little difference between life and death
we live by looking at the infidel for whom we are willing to die
For god's sake, don't lift the cover off any secrets you tyrant
the infidel might turn out to be my lover!
The preacher and the bar's entrance are way apart
yet I saw him entering the bar as I was leaving!
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View On WhiteMelukote Temple is around 130 kms from Bangalore.
Early in twelfth century, the great Srivaishnava saint Sri Ramanujacharya took up his residence and lived here for about 14 years (said so). It thus became a prominent centre of the Srivaishnava sect of Brahmins, who obtained from the Hoysala king Vishnuvardhana, who had become a follower of the Acharya, an assignment of the fertile tracts of land in the neighbourhood, especially of the Ashta Gramas, on either bank of the Cauvery.

At Madiwala Market. The couple looked happy selling tomatoes. :)
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