DESCRIPTION:
From the album Kashish Attraction (2001)
Lyrics: Shaz Tamkanat.
Music: Vithal Rao. (music is based in raag Pilu and a 6 beat rhythm)

Kiran Ahluwalia is an Indo-Canadian singer who publicly performs her own musical arrangements of ancient Persian and Punjabi Ghazals, or poems.

Lyrics (in Urdu and English)

Koi tanhai ka ehsaas dilata heh mujhe. Mai bohot duur hoon nazdeek bulata heh mujhe

Manai mehsoos kiya sheher kai hangmai mai. Koi sehera mai heh sehera mai bulata hai mujhe

Too kahan hai ke terai zulf ka saya saya. Har ghani chaun mai leh ja ke bithata hai mujhe

Shaz ab kaun si tehreer ko takdeer kahoon. Koi likhta hai mujhe koi mittata hai mujhe

I am far away from the one I love. The thought of my lover makes me realize my loneliness but also draws me closer to them.

In this crowd I am not alone but I am lonely. Yet even in the desert I would not be lonely if I had the company of my lover.

I am drawn to every bit of shade thinking that it may be the shadow of your long, luscious hair.

I am not sure about my fate anymore. I don't know which fate to believe in -- the one that my admirers paint for me or the one that my enemies create.