Mahak is one of Shiv Kumar Batalvi’s most haunting nazms—an intimate cry of grief, remembrance, and spiritual surrender. Through layered metaphors and visceral imagery, Batalvi expresses the weight of memory, the pain of unhealed wounds, and the soul’s longing for release. This is not a nazm of romance—it is a nazm of reckoning. A must-listen for lovers of Punjabi poetry, existential verse, and dard bhari shayari.