On a pleasant Saturday evening, fighting the introvert within me, who wishes to stay home, I decided to watch Meghna Gulzar’s spy thriller, ‘Raazi’. Alia Bhatt and the kids on screen amplified the brilliance of Gulzar Saab’s poetry and Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy’s tune. I came home humming, ‘Aae watan, watan mere aabaad rahe tu, main jahan rahoon jaahaan mein, yaad rahe tu.’
‘Watan (nation)’, the word kept me up all night. What does it mean? Is watan a geographical entity? Or is it more of an Andersonian ‘imagined’ dream for a group of people?
