New Delhi, July 28 -- I recently stumbled upon the poem Khabar-e-Tahayyur-e-Ishq Sun (Listen to the Confounding Story of Love) by the 18th-century Indian mystic poet, Siraj Aurangabadi. The source was its haunting 2020 rendition by musicians Ali Sethi and Noah Georgeson. To say the verses have wrecked me would be an understatement. Sample this: Na junoon raha, na pari rahi (Neither obsession, nor beauty remained)/ Na toh tu raha, na toh main raha (Neither you remained, nor I) / Jo rahi so bekhabari rahi (Only obliviousness remained)... The Sufi poet allegedly stopped writing poems after the age of 24 and died at 48. Incredible that someone could write with such depth and intimate grasp of pain and grief in their early 20s. One of those mo...