Afsurdagi.
Afsurdagi is derived from the urdu word Afsurda. I believe بے رونقی. is an apt way of describing afsurdagi. رَونَق means liveliness, glow. From this بے رونقی. is described best as loss of liveliness or loss of glow. Fall has started. The leaves, which were once green, are now amber-reddish in colour and have fallen to the ground. A gradual change , one that felt more pronounced when my eyes started to appreciate the changing colors, and when I felt the cool wind while walking down in the darkness filled evenings. Ah, how strange it feels to look outside and it is pitch black, but your clock only reads 20 past 5 in the evening. It is a sign—a sign that this year has come to its end, as so many things do. As the colours around me change, I cannot help but to take a peek inside. There is something that is slowly gnawing away, making this بے رونقی. more and more pronounced. Let's agree that to argue would be futile, once the mind is made up; there i...