Saeed Ur Rahman, the Banarasi masterweaver who works with weavers across 800 looms, quotes lines from a Majrooh Sultanpuri poem when asked how he and his family grew from strength to strength and came to be known as one of the prominent Banarasi masterweavers:
“Main akela hi chala tha janib-e-manzil magar,
Log saath aate gaye karvan banta gaya.”
