Babul Mora

Babul Mora Naihar Chhooto Jaye is a popular Thumri (Hindustani classical music song) in Raag Bhairavi, written by Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, the 19th-century Nawab of Awadh. The song is an expression of lament when he was exiled from his beloved Lucknow by the British Raj before the failed Rebellion of 1857. He uses the Bidaai of a bride (bride's farewell) from her father's (Babul) home as a metaphor for his own banishment from his beloved Lucknow to far away Calcutta, where he spent the rest of his years. For me this song is pure epitome of the pain of separation between a father & daughter, at the time of marriage...!