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Honestly, if there was one song, only one song that inherently unfailingly reminded me of India.
It'd be this one.
No song for me ever had the passion, the liveliness and the beat to drum on like this song. It came out when I was a teenager and I've been in love with it ever since. It's never moved from my playlist and it never will. If I ever wanted to get up and dance and yell out for joy, it would be to this song.
I can translate some snippets of the song myself, but not the whole thing (honestly there are parts which make me go "Am I understanding that correctly??"). But I was listening to it again and one part stuck out for me.
Tum ho meri main tumhara
Chhota sa sansar hamara
Age jaane Ram kya hoga
This is the translation (by moi)
I am yours and your are mine
We all live short lives
Coming and going [not sure about this but "age jaane" sort of means to come and to go]... what happened to Rama?
It's an interesting verse when it asks that. An equally interesting one if anyone who has read the Ramayana beyond the successful retrieval of Sita and what became of her later. Sometimes, I wonder if anyone has ever compared Sita and Helen since they both faced similar problems. But then I realize that Sita was worse off in so many more ways, so I stop following that train of thought.
It'd be this one.
No song for me ever had the passion, the liveliness and the beat to drum on like this song. It came out when I was a teenager and I've been in love with it ever since. It's never moved from my playlist and it never will. If I ever wanted to get up and dance and yell out for joy, it would be to this song.
I can translate some snippets of the song myself, but not the whole thing (honestly there are parts which make me go "Am I understanding that correctly??"). But I was listening to it again and one part stuck out for me.
Tum ho meri main tumhara
Chhota sa sansar hamara
Age jaane Ram kya hoga
This is the translation (by moi)
I am yours and your are mine
We all live short lives
Coming and going [not sure about this but "age jaane" sort of means to come and to go]... what happened to Rama?
It's an interesting verse when it asks that. An equally interesting one if anyone who has read the Ramayana beyond the successful retrieval of Sita and what became of her later. Sometimes, I wonder if anyone has ever compared Sita and Helen since they both faced similar problems. But then I realize that Sita was worse off in so many more ways, so I stop following that train of thought.