INDIA | VASUDHAIVAKUTUMBAKAM | URDU POETRY

Here is a song for the India that I fell so hopelessly in love with

(recreated from the Urdu of Mirza Asādullah Beg Khān “Ghālib”)

the shapes of India — drawing by Balkrishna Doshi (1927–2023) — vadehraart.com

The India I fell in love with was a portmanteau of peoples, languages, literatures, fates, tastes, shades, shapes, colors, sounds, fragrances…