Loote-jyu, Could not help reciting another couplet from the same ghazal. So damn befitting ! - http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ghalib/020/20_05.html?nagari ये कहाँ कि दोस्ती है के बने हैं दोस्त नासेह कोई चारहसाज होता कोई गमगुसार होता (what kind of friendship is this, that friends are now preachers I wish I had someone to ease my pain, someone to sympathize with me) Nepe