Word Meaning
बेदाद-गरी
bedaad-gari
Meaning
Tyranny, oppression, cruelty, or injustice.
Detailed Meaning
In classical Urdu poetics, 'bedaad-gari' denotes the active practice of tyranny, cruelty, or injustice. In this couplet, it represents the merciless oppression inflicted by the beloved, for which each wound of the poet's afflicted heart seeks retribution and justice before the supreme Judge on the Day of Judgment.
Etymology
Persian: compound of 'be-daad' (unjust, injustice, from 'be-' without + 'daad' justice) and the suffix of agency '-gari' (doing, executing).
Usage
A staple trope in the ghazal tradition used to dramatize the beloved's unrelenting emotional cruelty or the arbitrary injustices of destiny.
Examples
No one survived the tyranny of fate.
A lover bears the endless cruelty of the beloved in silence.