The songs like चल उड़ जा रे पंछी, के अब ये देस हुआ बेगाना - हम तो चले परदेस … seem
to be alien emotion for the current generation. With the faster mode of
transportation, globalization this world looks small .The migration within
country does not seem a big deal. But some people far away living in different
countries might find it relevant even today, when they remember their India.
The feeling is similar when a villager in past remembered his village in a
city. That time the distance was not easy to travel. And except letters there
was no method of communication. Another thing, the sense of belongingness was deeper.
In villages of those times, people lived as a concerned community, it was more
common and less individual. Beside home and land , there was common village well,
pond, trees, playground, temple, gurudwara , church, maszid etc. In this age , we live more individually;
even in villages. We are lost in TV, mobile, and many more individualistic
gadgets.
Sometimes I feel, up to last century a person`s life was like a
deep rooted tree in a jungle, it was painful for tree to get uprooted and get
placed in a new environment. It was like
tree might be missing the fellow trees,
birds, nests, insects’ animals, surrounding vines, neighboring brook etc.
Now in
twenty first century ,the humans are not deep rooted trees in ajungle but beautiful bonsai in a vase living with fellow plants in individual vases
and there is no regret and remorse just pick the vase and place anywhere
you like. So these songs sometimes seem irrelevant but not always , there are
some people …
चल उड़ जा
रे पंछी, के
अब ये देस
हुआ बेगाना/
तू ने तिनका
तिनका चुनकर नगरी
एक बसायी
बारीश में तेरी
भीगी पाख़े, धूप
में गर्मी खायी
ग़म ना कर
जो तेरी मेहनत
तेरे काम ना
आई ,
अच्छा हैं कुछ
ले जाने से
दे कर ही
कुछ जाना
भूल जा अब
वो मस्त हवा,
वो उड़ना डाली
डाली
जग की आँख
का कांटा बन
गयी चाल तेरी
मतवाली
कौन भला उस
बाग को पूछे,
हो ना जिसका
माली,
तेरी किस्मत में लिखा
हैं, जीते जी
मर जाना
रोते हैं वो
पंख पखेरू, साथ
तेरे जो खेले
जिनके साथ लगाये
तू ने अरमानों
के मेले
भीगी आखियों से ही
उन की आज
दूवायें ले ले,
किस को पता
अब इस नगरी
में कब हो
तेरा आना/
