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2 Urdu ash'ar / shaayari (shers, couplets) containing the word:

watan: homeland, country

1 / 2: watan

zabaan hamaari na samjha yahaan koi 'majrooh'

hum ajnabi ki tarah

apne hi watan mein rahe

no one here, ‘majrooh’,

understands what i say

i remain a stranger

in my own land

Majrooh Sultanpuri (12)

1993: Dadasaheb Phalke Award

2013: India Commemorative Stamp

language, tongue

understand

stranger

tarah (15)

type, like, similar to

homeland, country

rahe (19)

remain

Theme: Home, Country, & Belonging (28)

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2 / 2: watan

ghurbat ki thanDi chaanv mein yaad aai us ki dhoop

qadr-e-watan hui hamein

tark-e-watan ke baad

in the cool shade of exile

i yearned for the heat of its sun

only after abandoning the homeland

did i understand its true worth

poverty, lowliness

cool

shade

yaad (33)

memory, remember

dhoop (11)

heat from sun

qadr (4)

value, worth

homeland, country

tark (1)

abandonment

baad (10)

breeze / after

Theme: Home, Country, & Belonging (28)

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