Ghalib / 21.07.2009
Ghalib – 30: Similarities and Differences
Here we have another example of the ability of Ghalib to couch a very modern thought in a very traditional idiom while simultaneously subverting the intent of the tradition:
go vaaN nahiiN pah vaaN ke nikaale hue to haiN
kaabe se in butoN ko bhii nisbat hai duur ki
though they are not there, still that is where they were expelled from
these idols too have a distant kinship with the ka’bah
This is modern evolutionary biology – whatever our differences, we are descended from a common gene.