Smriti Irani shared a “beautiful rendition” of a Hindi poem on Instagram.
Union Minister Smriti Irani’s most recent Instagram post may possibly take you on a trip down memory lane. On Sunday, Ms Irani took to Instagram to share a video of a poet reciting “Mera Chota Sa Ek Mohalla” – a poem that appears back on some of the tiny joys of living in a modest, close-knit neighbourhood.
Sharing the video, Ms Irani wrote that she located the “beautiful rendition” on-line and it describes a life that lots of of us have been privileged to live. “Found this beautiful rendition online.. don’t know who the lady is but what she describes is a life many of us have been privileged to live,” she wrote. She also asked her followers to aid her recognize the poet. Instagram customers obliged and quickly identified the poet as Jaya Sarkar in what Ms Irani later described as the energy of Instagram.
“The power of Insta – in my comment section am told the lady is a poet Jaya Sarkar,” she wrote.
In her poem, Ms Sarkar recalls living in a “chota sa mohalla” or a modest neighbourhood, exactly where young children had been usually located playing on the road and teenagers gossiped beneath the guise of combined study, exactly where the streets had been narrow but residences had been welcoming, exactly where the rustling of the peepal tree heralded the arrival of spooky story sessions, and exactly where everybody came with each other to celebrate just about every modest joy.
“There are some who consider big bank accounts, huge mansions & a row of jazzy cars to be the hallmark of privilege,” wrote Smriti Irani although sharing the video. “For me, true gold is the relationships, the memories that enrich us and make us who we are…”
The Union Minister also mentioned that she, also, when lived in such a neighbourhood. “Mera bhi kuch aisa hi chota sa mohalla tha .. with the peepul ka ped (I too had a small neighbourhood like this, with a peepul tree),” she wrote.
The recitation has been viewed almost 70,000 instances on Instagram and received a ton of praise.
Ms Sarkar took to the comments section to thank Ms Irani for sharing her video. “Dear Smriti ji, It’s euphoric to know that you have shared this video,” she wrote. “This memoire has rekindled the Mohalla culture that you rightly mentioned, we were privileged to live.”
She had 1st shared the video on Instagram back in June final year.
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