Saturday, October 15, 2011

अभी दिल्ली दूर है—Delhi is far cry


Also he would have had an idea of traffic webs clogging the reach to Delhi, when Hazrat Nizamuddin, who on being informed about the Tughlaq king’s plan to eliminate him, when the king was about to reach the capital, the Sufi Saint had exclaimed, “हुनूज़ दिल्ली दूर अस्त! (अभी दिल्ली दूर है)—Delhi is far cry (for the king)! Remember the king fell off his elephant and died at the outskirts of Dilli. No, I dare not question the spiritual prowess and prophesying miracles of a Saint even if he did not refer to the चीं चीं पों पों at all!

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