Straight from the lands of Punjab, Amrita Pritam Ji. Not just a poetess but a revolutionary who lived like no one else.
Listen to this profound poetry by her and try understanding the deeper meaning which often gets overlooked. For everyone’s convenience, adding some of the meanings here:
और गुल की पेशानी पर सब्त गुल का नाम हटा दिया है: And from the forehead of the flower, I have erased the inscribed name of the flower (She refuses to be bound by even the deepest inscriptions of identity
Samt: road, direction, path
to cats is a word of goodness, it is the
cause of the city (her home is not bound to a single address but to the universal idea of goodness, humanity, and shared existence)
Original credits:
Words of: Amrita Pritam Ji
Music: Kahin toh from the movie Jane tu ya Jane na @arrahman