Sundar Mundriye Ho

 I am back to blogging after a long hiatus. This time too, the trigger has come from Yakhmi Bha. As mentioned by me umpteen times before, he bestows on me a privilege in that he calls me to give me an auricular preview of his latest poem. Keeping up the tradition, he called me a few days ago and recited his new poem. This time his interaction resulted in me getting reminded of an unfinished poem of which I had had the 'aamad' quite a while ago. The effect did not stop there because I got inspired not only to revise the two lines that had originally germinated in my mind but also to augment those lines with some more. Subsequently, I made a return call to seek his critical appreciation  of my effort. During the course of our chat, he was prompted by Mrs. Yakhmi to ask me to send them a copy of an article that I had written about  30 years ago. This article pertains to  'Sundar Mundriye' a folk song which is sung during Lohri, a unique festival of Punjab. I had written it for the 'News Letter' of Punjabi Biradari, an organization of Punjabis of Anushakti Nagar.  Fortunately, I was able to dig up a scanned copy of the article. I am reproducing that copy of the article here below. It will take a bit of doing to read this copy.