Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah....

Most of our plans which happen to formalize come from this guy who has visited almost all the continents (Antarctica is not worth visiting anyways ) so we call him GG'lumbus. Montu urf GG urf Gaurav Gupta has a nack to do different things and that too differently..... soon to be nicknamed " the lone hiker " .... the best part about him making any plan is that you know that we have to do it because somewhere deep down below we know that it is going to be worth it... so when Montu dropped in the idea of visiting Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah to listen to the famous sufi qwaalis ,it didnt take me long to jump in..... Since Montu had to come all the way from gurgaon he was running late and a stage came when we thought that its not going to happen...but he made it just at the right time and we were all set to Hazrat Nizamuddin....

The moment we arrived at Nizamuddin I had this feeling that I would be encountering something which I have never seen before and this was it...... The faith that people have in this Dargah is amazing....There were some foreigners also among the devotees....As we kept going inside the crowd increased and the "gali" reduced to a size that only one person from either side can cross .... There are small shops adjoining this gali where one can buy flowers and chadars etc...We left our shoes at one of the shops from where we took some flowers for the dargah....As soon as we entered the Dargah the whole claustrophobia was gone and we came to this brightly lit place which was echoing with the soothing sufiyana qwaalis... we sat around the qwaals after paying homage to the holy shrine....It was an amazing experience , totally different from anything else I have experienced.....There were oldish looking guys with huge hand fans and they were waving these fans as fast as they can just to make the devoteed enjoy this holy musical experience in comfort....one set of qwaaal got tired and their place was taken by another one and so on......I must tell you that listening to a qwaal on a CD is completely different from a live qwaali and that too at such a holy place where every word that comes out from these qwaals is pure and full of devotion....
By the end of the qwaalis we were very hungry and yet again Montu had a surprise package for us....He led us through the narrow lanes to Karims and we ate and we ate and we ate.....it was totally amazing end to a totally amazing evening....