A woman in a yellow kurta takes the microphone onstage, smiles for the audience, and then delivers a couplet in Urdu. “Khaandani raees rakhte hain mijaaz naram apna, khaandani raees rakhte hain mijaaz ...
A bulk of Gulzar saab's unexplored philosophical insights far exceed his filmography, poetry, and writings. What is often missed in his language and poetics are his metaphors from quantum mechanics.