i like this song, mostly because it goes very slow, with an emphasis on each word, and that extra fraction of a second on each makes them so special.

aaj raat chandani hai
aur tum mere saath ho,
bas ye dua hai meri
aisi har ek raat ho

makes you feel like chandani was such a rare event or something. i guess if you only count the time in the vicinity of the full moon for chandani then it is, what 1/8th of the lunar cycle... or something.

hmm...

wait even otherwise, isn't the moon too close to the sun half the time and we don't really see it in the night sky in any case then. so chandni must actually be rarer than most people give it credit for.

ok, really hoping my students don't read this , coz they are gonna go, Ms. B, you don't even know this?

gotta get the numbers on this one. shoot, aur kaam kam hain mujhko?