رو رو کے پوچھتی ہیں بانو شہِ زمن سے
کڑیل جواں کی میت کس طرح لائے رن سے
The soul-shattering noha/elegey titled "Ro Ro Ke Puchti Hain Bano Shah-e-Zaman Se" featured in Muzaffar Ali's film "Gaman (1978)" was penned by Mir Alim Wasti and Chhaya Ganguli recited it
ethan hawke said something i haven’t stopped thinking about — we usually move past art like we have no need for it, until loss enters our life and suddenly nothing ordinary can hold what we’re feeling
This is basically what philosophers and anthropologists mean when they say that the 'individual' is a relatively modern construct, and that many other cultures conceive of people in a more porous, contingent, interwoven fashion. Weird as it sounds, it's just observably true.