105 Quotes by Gulzar

I had spent the dayfriendless, lonely and sad,a stranger to myself. After drowning the dayon the sea shore,I walked backto my empty houseon the deserted street. The momentI opened the door,the book on my tableflipped its pagesand said:"Friend,Where were youfor so long?

The wounds will take decades to heal, centuries to overcome the trauma.

This arrogant, conceited history strides with her head in the clouds and never looks down. She does not realize how she crushes millions of people beneath her feet. The common people. She doesn't understand that one may cut a mountain in two, but people? It's a hard task, Bhai, to cute one people in two. They bleed.

A deep sigh coursed through the gathering. Master Fazal said, 'History will keep on marching like this. The names of a few people will stick to her fabric. She will register those. there was Hitler, there was Mussolini, Churchill and Joseph Stalin, among others. this time the names maybe Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jinnah, Subhash Bose! But the names of the lakhs and crores who have lost their lives will be nowhere. They will be mere numbers in which all of us will be included!

सामने आए मेरे, देखा मुझे, बात भी कीमुस्कुराए भी, पुरानी किसी पहचान की ख़ातिर कल का अख़बार था, बस देख लिया, रख भी दिया English Translation-Met me, saw me, spoke with meSmiled as well, for the sake of an old relationshipYesterday's newspaper, seen and put aside

There are many songs that have become popular and people sing along with it without knowing the meaning of its lyrics.

My thinking process starts with my pen.

I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.

When it comes to our 'Jai ho,' the song became a super hit because of the composition of Rahman... He made the tune.