meh.

*Warning - largely incoherent post*

“Meri yaad say alag apnay taur per maujood hai, apni yaad kay saath jiss main main zinda hun”

“Magar zamaana guzarta kahan hai. Guzara jaata hai per nahin guzarta. Aas paas mandlata rehta hai”

These lines stick out for me because they deal with a duality of existence where it both is and is not. In the earlier lines Zakir thinks about Sabirah, and how he had forgotten about her and yet she had persisted in existing outside of his memory, a fact he finds shocking and the second where time though gone by, still manages to exist as an entity of it’s own, the words “mandlata rehta hai” give it agency. For me this is interesting because of how Zakir’s memory has lessened the value of people and heightened that of time and historical events. I feel it is due to this that Zakir is unable to take action when an event takes place yet they significantly affect him in retrospective.