What is "banjaranama"

The Banjaranama (بنجارانامہ, बंजारानामा, Chronicle of the Nomad) is a famous satirical Urdu poem, written by the eighteenth-century sub-continental poet Nazeer Akbarabadi. The poem's essential message is that pride in worldly success is foolish, because human circumstances can change in a flash, material wealth and splendor is always transient, and death is the only certainty for all men. The poem quickly captured the popular imagination, and achieved fame in the Indian subcontinent that has lasted for over two centuries. Critics have observed that, despite the deliberate simplicity of its language, the poem's idioms and imagery were dazzling in their span, and portrayed lives of wealth and power as ultimately subject to a nomad's whims (an allusion to death). The poem continues to be hailed as distilling "the teachings of thousands of years into one summary form."