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tamasha(m): fantasy, confusion

Description of tamasha: Tamasha is an Urdu word meaning a spectacle, show, or public entertainment, often implying a lively performance or dramatic event. Unlike a formal theater production, it evokes boisterous folk gatherings with music and dance. Differs from a simple drama by carrying connotations of chaos or absurdity in everyday commotion. In Urdu poetry, it symbolizes life's fleeting, theatrical illusions, as in Ghalib's verses on worldly tamasha.

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in aankhon ne kya kya tamasha na dekha

haqeeqat mein jo dekhna tha

na dekha

what all fantasies have

these eyes seen

but the reality in front

they couldn’t see

Dagh Dehlvi (11)

aankhon (m) (12)

eyes

tamasha (m) (1)

fantasy, confusion

haqeeqat (f) (7)

reality, fact

Theme: Nature, World & Universe (50)

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