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What does ‘The Ghat of the only World’ mean? |
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Answer» ‘Ghat’ is an Urdu word also used in Hindi which means the place at a riverbank from where boats sail off with passengers to the other side. Here ‘the only world’ is a symbol of man’s life on this earth and the ‘Ghat’ is the bank (point of death) from where a man departs for another world. Thus it is the only death which takes a man to the other side. ‘Ghat’ is simply used as a metaphor for death. Shahid dreamt he was at the ‘Ghat’ of the only world-the world of the gone. He was to bid adieu to the world of the living. Having gone past pangs of life he was cradling “in supreme consolation”, that is, “I love to think that I’ll meet my mother in the afterlife if there is an afterlife.” |
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