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भार भुजावन हम गए, पल्ले बाँधी ऊन कुत्ता चरखा लै गयो, काएते फटकूँगी चून.
काकी फूफा घर में हैं कि नायं, नायं तो नन्देऊ पांवरो होय तो ला दे, ला कथूरा में डोराई डारि लाऊँ.
खीर पकाई जतन से और चरखा दिया जलाय आयो कुत्तो खा गयो, तू बैठी ढोल बजाय, ला पानी पिलाय.
भैंस चढ़ी बबूल पर और लपलप गूलर खाय दुम उठा के देखा तो पूरनमासी के तीन दिन.
पीपल पकी पपेलियाँ, झड़ झड़ पड़े हैं बेर सर में लगा खटाक से, वाह रे तेरी मिठास.
लखु आवे लखु जावे, बड़ो कर धम्मकला पीपर तन की न मानूँ बरतन धधरया, बड़ो कर धम्मकला.
भैंस चढ़ी बबूल पर और लप लप गूलर खाए उतर उतर परमेश्वरी तेरा मठा सिरानों जाए.
भैंस चढ़ी बिटोरी और लप लप गूलर खाए उतर आ मेरे साँड की, कहीं हिफ्ज न फट जाए.
इति
The Poet
अमीर खुसरो
Amir Khusrow
1253 · 1325
Amir Khusrow lived and breathed a syncretic culture centuries before the modern world even possessed the vocabulary for it. Born in 1253 in Patiyali, Uttar Pradesh, he served as a scholar, a musician, and a poet under the Delhi Sultanate. Despite his royal appointments, his true allegiance remained with his spiritual master, Nizamuddin Auliya. He is widely recognized as the father of Qawwali and is traditionally credited with the invention of the sitar and tabla. His most profound contribution, however, lay in language. He took the formal Persian of the royal courts and merged it with the everyday Hindavi spoken on the streets. His riddles, verses, and ghazals are entirely alive today, still sung at shrines and in courtyards across the Indian subcontinent. Khusrow did not merely write poetry. He shaped the cultural identity of North India, proving that authentic devotion bypasses all borders of language and religion.
Paired Painting
Elephant Khedda Operation
The canvas captures the dramatic and deeply traditional spectacle of a khedda, a historic method employed in the forested regions of India for capturing wild elephants. Spectators and mahouts gather in tense anticipation along the sturdy wooden palisades, watching the majestic animals enclosed within the stockade. This traditional practice reflects a profound, yet complex, historical relationship between humans and pachyderms in the subcontinent, where mastery over the wilderness was displayed as both a royal duty and a grand colonial spectacle.
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