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jise le gayi abhi hawa

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jise le gayi abhi hawa woh waraq tha dil ki kitaab ka

kahin aansuon se miTa hua

kahin aansuon se likha hua

that which the wind swept away

was the paper of the heart's book

sometimes defiled by tears

sometimes written by tears

Bashir Badr (18)

1999: Sahitya Akademi

1999: Padma Shri

hawa (5)

breeze, wind

paper

dil (96)

heart

book

tears

miTa (2)

destroy, ruin, erase

Theme: Heart, Mind, & Memory (64)

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