Bimla di Chithi (by Kidar Nath Baghi)

This poem was written by Giani Kidar Nath Baghi, who was the ustad of my father Basant S Basant (Dhanjal), who was reciting it in the early 1980s. The photograph is of Baghi-ji.
I've listened to this poem many times over the years and it invokes many different emotions in me as I view it from various perspectives.
As a Historian - The graphic truth about inhumane behaviours experienced by innocent people on both sides during partition, and the capacity of the strong to take advantage of the weak in the absence of the rule of law.
As an abandoned wife, sister, daughter - The pain of being abandoned by her loved ones, and the loneliness thereafter.
As a student of humanity & religion: The hollow truth about ceremonies that become meaningless unless their essential spirit is grasped.
And I'm sure there are many other view points. Hope you will enjoy and share your thoughts.

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Baghi-ji lived in Layallpur (present day Faisalabad in Pakistan).
He migrated to Delhi during the troubles of partition and settled in Gandhi Nagar.
However, I don't know where he was born.

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@@PublicHealthand.Poetry Baghi-ji passed away while visiting Kenya in Nairobi in 1959. During that visit he stayed with my father (Basant Singh Basant, Dhanjal) for a period of 3 to 4 weeks since my father was his shagird.
My father got to know him very well and thought of him as a father figure. My father used to tell us that Bagi-ji was born in Lyallpur (Faislabad, in present day Pakistan) and came to Gandhi Nagar in Delhi as a refugee during partition.
A lot of his poems show the scars of that period.