By Suvir Saran New Delhi [India], August 7 (ANI): Agarche kar-e-duniya kuch nahi hai Magar is ke alawa kuch nahi hai Ye duniya hai yunhi chalti rahegi Mire hone se hona kuch nahi hai These golden words from Shahzad Ahmad give a wealth of wisdom and take our egomaniacal heft away from us. They tell us that even though our work takes up much of our life, there's not much to it. The world will keep living its own journey; the accolades, promotions, and possessions we leave behind will make no difference to the larger picture of that passage and how it unfurls and where it is headed.
In a few lines, Ahmad shows us how insignificant we humans really are and how transient our existence is. TCA Jayant, my wondrously affectionate and generously kind nephew, passed away most unexpectedly one morning three months ago at age 34. Living, loving, working hard and celebrating life and those living around him one minute, and gone the next.
Jayant's life was too rich with wholesome beauty and lived with purity of intent and purpose to be taken away so young. But perhaps his life illustrates the point that the poet was making in the ghazal, that life is life and nothing else, and that we can be one with it, or refuse to accept this truth and feel choked and dead even as we live. Short and sweet, full and rich, deep and meaningful, extraordinarily ordinary, free of drama and one with discoveries and fulfilment -- this is the life that Jayant was living with his gorgeous and gregarious wife and.