It is almost exact translation but the meanings in Urdu carry a different connotation, It is really sort of “on the way” “road-side” or something like that.
Forgive me I am kind of rambling, as I am remembering my brother who left this world 14 years ago today. To me he was not just a brother, but a friend, a guide, a role model, a father all rolled into one, lovable personality. When I started college level education in Lahore, he had finished MBBS and was in his “House-Job” (a straight surgical internship, in American terminology). So as I spent my first year in Lahore as a student with him, “inheriting” all his favorite people, like: barber (on Beadon road). tailor master (in Anarkali, “readymade” shirts and suits were not known in Lahore as yet) and the two masjids for Jum’a prayers, Masjid Shah Chiragh (where the Khateeb was Allama Allao-uddin Siddiqui) and Neelay gumbad wali masjid near Anarkali and of course all his friends.
One of them was Sher Muhammad Akhter (We used to translate this as Lion Mohammad Star) A very jolly fellow with a short stutter in his speech but a decent refined man with a decent sense of humor. he was a Journalist and editor of a weekly Urdu magazine “Qandeel” and a regular column in it reads like “Sar (pronounced “sir”) ay Rahay”. I do not remember what happened to the magazine but I liked it.
Saray Rahy carried items of observation, like when you are walking on the road and see something reportably interesting. Those were the days in Lahore when the Double-decker buses (Omni Bus) were new. I was traveling from city to Lahore cantt in the doubledecker and a young boy was enjoying the bus ride sitting on the upper deck on the front seat and making all the verbal sounds of the bus holding the steering wheel (imaginary) and suddenly the road started turning acutely so he started moving the wheel also until he fell in that process, hurt his head and started crying, poor thing.
I would have written this öbservation"as Saray Rahay in that magazine
Forgive me I am kind of rambling, as I am remembering my brother who left this world 14 years ago today. To me he was not just a brother, but a friend, a guide, a role model, a father all rolled into one, lovable personality. When I started college level education in Lahore, he had finished MBBS and was in his “House-Job” (a straight surgical internship, in American terminology). So as I spent my first year in Lahore as a student with him, “inheriting” all his favorite people, like: barber (on Beadon road). tailor master (in Anarkali, “readymade” shirts and suits were not known in Lahore as yet) and the two masjids for Jum’a prayers, Masjid Shah Chiragh (where the Khateeb was Allama Allao-uddin Siddiqui) and Neelay gumbad wali masjid near Anarkali and of course all his friends.
One of them was Sher Muhammad Akhter (We used to translate this as Lion Mohammad Star) A very jolly fellow with a short stutter in his speech but a decent refined man with a decent sense of humor. he was a Journalist and editor of a weekly Urdu magazine “Qandeel” and a regular column in it reads like “Sar (pronounced “sir”) ay Rahay”. I do not remember what happened to the magazine but I liked it.
Saray Rahy carried items of observation, like when you are walking on the road and see something reportably interesting. Those were the days in Lahore when the Double-decker buses (Omni Bus) were new. I was traveling from city to Lahore cantt in the doubledecker and a young boy was enjoying the bus ride sitting on the upper deck on the front seat and making all the verbal sounds of the bus holding the steering wheel (imaginary) and suddenly the road started turning acutely so he started moving the wheel also until he fell in that process, hurt his head and started crying, poor thing.
I would have written this öbservation"as Saray Rahay in that magazine
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Very interesting read..I thoroughly enjoyed it...I loved the idea of Sare-Rah.
(BTW - I got link for new internet edition of JIMA)
I am glad you enjoyed my short stories
But that Gojra happening is having lot of people think what we should be doing. See my Jum'ah journal comments also that I am preparing to write.
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