Ashu Laal: An ancient dweller of Indus Valley I have only read one poet which puts up such an awesome rebuttal of modernism and post-modernism reflected in life, style, civilisational turn-overs and life disappearing somewhere in these sky-scrappers and techno-world. Life is crippingly restricted. You long for sun. You long for moon. You long for fresh air. You are so destitute that you never have an idea how to enjoy life, but languish within cemented walls and falsify your freedom and meaningfulness of life. Ashu Laal revives mythological anecdotes and folklore in such a way that all these seem to have a life-breathing experience and ever-alive philosophy where artificiality crumbles apart, cities gets replaced with villages with thatched huts, clubs replaced with village-compounds, Guitars with GhaRra and Murli. What makes me to read and listen him again and again is his over-powering notion of life within its simplest modesty. This life seeks solace in ancient myths, combines old pathways of searching self and bringing up very localised concept of existence which is never marred by concept of marauding people and places for power, pelf and prestige. All he loves to see is simplicity glistened in views like sun-setting behind Neem-tree or taking dip into river Indus for a new day with new pristine purity. If somebody would ask me, what is philosophy of Ashu Laal? I would say: Hope, celebration and Love of nature. Ezra Pound used to denunciate the usage of expression such as ‘dim lands of peace’. He used to emphasie separation of images from an abstraction and separation of abstraction from images. He never liked mixing up of both conflciting developments within a poem. Lines either be vivid or so abstract that they must put up a real tangible reflection of a state of existence. I fully endorse the viewpoint helf by Ezra Pound for negation of natural symbolism through penetration of abstract image. If anyone among modern poets succeeds to fulfill the contestation of Ezra Pound, then, i will quickly recall the name of Ashu Laal for his clear and vivid images. Take a look at his celebration of nature and its usage in poetry: Nand laala jee de naam de Assan chheru shaam shayam de Sade mann vich raadhi sanwani Assan murli roz wajawani Sadi radha pandh dhimbhaar da Sada ajjarr ganga paar da Assan jharr jangal nitt laanghnaa Hikk darshan saaeen da taanghna Nand laala jee de naam de Assan chheru shaam shayam de [ Ashu Laal] .............................................. and, feel of embeddedness with eternal liberty of natural endowments such as rivers, streams and aligning it with feel of pain which perhaps to me is a feel of inability of immortalise oneself with ever flowing bounties of nature or human efforts to blockade, rather conflict with natural course of endowments. Ashu Laal is an example of revivalism of romantic movement which was alive in Keats, Shelley and Coleridge Wasti wasti kinnu wasti wasti tayin Taara lurhda aawe naddi waahndi aawe Sham laahndhi aawe beri beri andar Hole hole wala dard saahndi aawe Sham laahndhi aawe beri beri andar [ Ashu Laal] The evening is coming down to settle within a ferry on the embankment of Indus is an article of faith to most of us who identify themselves and exist with river Indus. - Zarmeena Baloch and Wali Jamali
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:24:15 +0000
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