Adil Najam
I got this picture in my email recently. And it made me feel all good inside.
Taken a few days ago in Islamabad at a Pakistan National of the Arts (PNCA) event it shows Ustad Medhi Hassan and Ustad Fateh Ali Khan – both on wheelchairs – greeting each other and reminiscing about days gone by. What I like best about this is that they are both so clearly happy. Mehdi Hassan, in particular, looks much more frail than one remembers him to be, but unlike so many recent pictures we have seen of him, he is smiling and happy. And seeing that makes me happy too.
Naveed Riaz, who sent me the picture, had the following verse to offer as commentary on the photogrph:
Kya Hum Say Pareshaan Khushboo Thee, Ya Bund Hain Ab Kaliyon Kee Tarah?
Kya Misl-e-Saba Avaara Thay, Ya Ghar Say Nikalna Mushkil Hai?
Maybe our readers can offer their own commentary – in verse or in prose.
Very nice indeed.
I want to remember them like this. Not lying on a hospital bed.
I must confess that I have never been a big fan of either of these gentlemen, although my mother was. But for some odd reason, just looking at this amidst everything else we see these days, also makes me feel good.
Glad to see their lives being celebrated.
These are two of Pakistan’s greatest living cultural assets in the field of music (along with Farida Khanum, Abida Parveen, Ghulam Hussain Shaggan). This picture is divine talent paying tribute to each other. Few other people than these two would understand the greatness of the other. Thanks so much for sharing.
Two legendary singing performers of Pakistan. I remember when i was in my childhood i never like both of them singing on TV…. but by the passage of time my thinking change and now i realize that they are proud of Pakistan and nobody of recent time can meet standards set by these legendary art performers (i never call them only singer they are legendary singing performer).
Of all the human expressions, the one that conveys the most meaning, even more than music, is the that of touch. It needs no sound, no sight, no light, no air.
A child’s first contact with life is that of touch, even before that of breath.
This snapshot in time is amazing for that it expresses in touch between two admirers.
And please, there are seasons of life and we should all enjoy and make every effort that others enjoy just as well, all the seasons of life.
Life is a gift of Creator and should be cherished, in all seasons, by all and for all.