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"कल और आएंगे नग़मों की, खिलती कलियाँ चुनने वाले| मुझसे बेहतर कहने वाले, तुमसे बेहतर सुनने वाले| कल कोई मुझको याद करे, क्यूँ कोई मुझको याद करे, मसरूफ़ ज़माना मेरे लिये, क्यूँ वक़्त अपना बरबाद करे| मैं पल दो पल का शायर हूँ||" My love affair with cricket revolved around Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his style of play was what drew me into the game and made me like the sport. It was 2006 or 2007, I'm certain it was before the 2007 ODI World Cup. I don't know exactly which match it was, since I didn't like watching cricket before that, but the Indian team had won that day. My father and I were watching a quiz show of Mandira Bedi and she asked this question, "Who was the Man of the Match in today's match?". My father had a great interest in cricket. He was a regular in the playing XI of his village's cricket team. So as sure as I was that he would know the answer to this question, I asked him for the answer to that question. And he replied, "Dhoni dho daa...

  "आँख में पानी रखो, होंटो ​​पे चिंगारी रखो। जिंदा रहना है तो तरकीबे बहुत सारी राखो।" The cult poet whose opening lines of one of his poetry symposiums, "Bulaati hai magar jaane ka nahi" flooded the social media with memes earlier this year, to another of his most famous lines, "Sabhi ka khoon shaamil hai yahan ki mitti mein, kisi ke baap ka Hindustan thodi hai" which became a widely accepted and used slogan in anti CAA protests, Dr. Rahat Indori knew the nerves of his audiences and always proved so with his compositions, be it his shayaris or songs, which could make the young and old rejoice alike whenever he was on the stage. The Urdu scholar cum teacher cum lyricist cum poet cum painter, Indori sahab was undergoing treatment at the Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences. He had tested positive for COVID-19 and was being diagnosed for the same. Sadly, he passed away yesterday due to cardiac arrest, as confirmed by his son, Satlaj Indori. About his l...