Dr Kumar Vishwas
How can I express grief I can't cry out loud?
Nirala's song of mourning
Nirala could not laugh, sing or weep freely, so he gathered all that feeling into his poem Saroj Smriti. It is spoken of as possibly the first shok geet, a song of mourning, in Hindi.
He could neither laugh freely, nor sing freely, nor weep freely; all of that he gathered into Saroj Smriti.