jagjit singh & iqbal - retro vs futuristic
ye daulat bhi le lo, ye shohrat bhi le lo
chahe mujh se le lo wo meri jawaai
magar mujh ko lauta do bachpan ka saawan
wo kaghaz ki kashti, wo baarish ka paani
[an excerpt from one of jagjit singh's most popular songs, not sure who the writer is]
it's very "nice" in a tearful sort of way, but what's all this nostalgia about anyway? sometimes i think we're a nostalgia-obsessed, backward looking (as opposed to backward) people...
now this (mohammad iqbal courtesy of nusrat fateh ali khan) is more like it:
dhayaar e ishq mein apna maqaam peida kar
naya zamaana, naye subh o shaam peida kar
bit off-topic, but i particularly like the next couplet:
khuda agar dil e fitrat shanaas de tujh ko
saqoot e laala o gul se kalaam peida kar
i think this really encapsulates what great photography is all about. JNS, what do you say we make this the tagline for our soon-to-come all-new (and record-breakingly-hyphenated) cool desi photography site?