{"id":766,"date":"2008-05-04T00:20:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T18:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/?p=766"},"modified":"2018-07-28T17:01:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T11:31:46","slug":"serendipity-and-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity and the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest joys of the internet is online serendipity, when you make a fortunate discovery while looking for something entirely different. During a search for a totally unrelated item, I stumbled upon this little gem in the comments section of a website that had a strange mix of politics, DIY guides, lonely hearts clubs, game cheats, vernacular abuses and other eclectic stuff. It is a poem called &#8216;Burdbaari&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>Even though I take pride in my googling ability, I must confess that I have been unable to locate the webpage again to confirm the name of the poet. Probably Google cannot do a keyword search because I changed the spellings of the urdu words into more conventional ones.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/gallery\/monochrome\/previewcache\/lotus.jpg.resized.jpg\" size=\"300\" alt=\"lotus\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Burdbaari<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>mitti mein ugay huve khaamosh magar khushnuma phoolon se ek kamal ne kaha,<\/p>\n<p>satah-e-aab pe mera yeh dilfareb zahoor, <\/p>\n<p>mere paikar ki yeh dilfareb raanaee,<\/p>\n<p>is thehrey hue paani ki khilqat hai<\/p>\n<p>aur yeh thehra hua paani hi, <\/p>\n<p>mere husn kaa sana-khuwan bhi hai<\/p>\n<p>mujhay mitti ki tamanna hai, na barsat ki justuju<\/p>\n<p>mitti mein ugay huve khaamosh, magar khushnuma phool<\/p>\n<p>us haseen kamal ke is izhaar-e-ehsaas-e-bezameeni par<\/p>\n<p>chupke se muskura diye<\/p>\n<p>aur badastoor khaamosh rahey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest joys of the internet is online serendipity, when you make a fortunate discovery while looking for something entirely different. During a search for a totally unrelated item, I stumbled upon this little gem in the comments section of a website that had a strange mix of politics, DIY guides, lonely hearts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-language","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}