It sucks :(

Have you been to a reunion of your school batch recently or a reunion of your ol'pals?
Sometimes I feel so shitlike :(. Apparently such reunions are not only to re-unite with your old pals but are also meant to keep your scores (of success) :(. Consider this:

You go to one such reunion and then there's this guy who you always rated "D-minus" during your old school days. Your professors always said this guy will bring a bad name to everything he gets associated with. He comes in the middle of the party and is introduced to you by a common friend from your batch thus:

"Hey pal, ...and here is Gulshan. (??) He just became CEO of his company blah blah blah... and here's from his old gang ...Sheila .. she just got rewarded as President of Falana Dhimkana company ...Then you must also know Sheikha ..she just had a beautiful daughter  ... And who doesn't know our own Harry ... he just sold his start-up company to Google for $ 1200,000,000. ...
And then these guys try hard to identify with you ... and then one amongst the group says :

"Anyway, ...It was good to see you again!"

"C'mon ... Let's go guys ..."
They head to their chopper waiting outside .... and take off ...

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Well, believe me sometimes I really feel like this ... and today is one such kick-ass evening :(

Intellectual courage ?

I am told that Intellectual Courage means this: Having a consciousness of the need to face and fairly address ideas, beliefs or viewpoints toward which we have strong negative emotions and to which we have not given a serious hearing. This courage is connected with the recognition that ideas considered dangerous or absurd are sometimes rationally justified (in whole or in part) and that conclusions and beliefs inculcated in us are sometimes false or misleading. To determine for ourselves which is which, we must not passively and uncritically "accept" what we have "learned." Intellectual courage comes into play here, because inevitably we will come to see some truth in some ideas considered dangerous and absurd, and distortion or falsity in some ideas strongly held in our social group. We need courage to be true to our own thinking in such circumstances. The penalties for non-conformity can be severe. (quoted from http://www.criticalthinking.org/articles/valuable-intellectual-traits.cfm)

We in India live in a time of extraordinarily high stakes. There is a big gap between the India that is (as we know it and as we have been knowing it since our childhood) and the India that we intellectuals could, and badly need to, bring into being. Sometimes this awful gap strikes us with an intensity that is little short of agonizing. And there are times, in the dead of a long night, when the odds of achieving what so urgently needs to be done can seem very long indeed.

In wrestling with this recently, and going by some other thoughtful blogs, where people have ranted about doing something (but have done nothing so far), I was forced to think about intellectual courage. It occurred to me that there are at least three kinds of this all too rare quality (though courageous people are found in large numbers on blogs, they are rarely found during the calls for revolutions or calls for change as that will require them to get up early and get out of the comfort of their homes on weekdays and weekends ..huh!)

There is this courage to insist on and fight for what we know to be true in the face of conventional wisdom and overwhelming social pressure. You might be surprised at how difficult this can be and how uncommon it is (especially amongst intellectuals)—but people are social animals, conditioned to seek social approval, living in a class society where the critical spirit is determinedly domesticated and kept within the narrowest of constraints. Yet without this courage, nothing of value can be, or ever has been, accomplished.

There is a second kind of intellectual courage: the courage to maintain your convictions in the face of severe repression and threats. And most of the news-items which cover heinous crimes against women or other such social crimes could not have been appearing if Indian intellectuals had this second type of courage. Revolutions require that many, many people come to take up this kind of bravery.

Then there is another kind of intellectual courage: the courage to steadfastly look full in the face at a daunting problem or difficult situations—precisely those kinds of situations where the way forward is far from clear and the odds seem forbidding—and to not only refuse to flinch or retreat, but to set yourself to plumbing its full depth and examining its every tortuous complication. Alas! There are just a few people an NGOs in India who are trying to show this courage. Think for example of those few NGOs from which a few people had come into the show Lead India initiative organized by Times of India a few years back (probably in 2007). This courage is, in one sense, to refuse the easy answer.

This courage stands in sharp contrast with the mentality that finally turns away from the depth of the challenge because of the huge and possibly discomforting implications of its possible solutions, choosing instead to either ignore or to effectively re-define and paper over the problem. It stands in opposition to the mentality that, once facing the abyss, reaches instead for a comforting but narcotic and ultimately killing fiction. This mentality, today, is pervasive; unchallenged, it will not only keep humanity in chains but strangle any hope for the future. Given that, one could say that this third type of intellectual courage is the most uncommon and precious of all.

There has to be a fearlessness there, and a hunger for the truth. But it is not something mysterious; it is something to think about and draw on, something to learn from and apply, no matter how dark the night or bright the day.

Truth that matters...

Chaos ...disorder ..or lack of order ...unfaithfulness ...non-belief in existence of God or Godly power ...or human Wisdom ...they all point to the same truth ...that Truth exists. We keep going back and forth ...to different states of mind ...Life comes full circle ...many-a-times ...when we need to decide for ourselves ..our loved ones ...and for our so-called enemies ...which resides within as does the Truth...We want to cover our face and go back to womb ...remain in silence ...utter comfort of darkness ...the ether of amniotic fluid filled in our body and a blank mind ...with nothing to think about ...we just want to remain calm ...assuming everything is good around us ...except that such is never the truth ...and then it beckons on you at a point in life called death ...that all your life you hid yourself in darkness ...there is no worth of your death least of all your life ...

It's the Truth that matters ...the death that brings value to life ...the cognizance of worth ...the clarity of existence comes only after the experience of death ...The Truth dawns only after the darkest phase of life ...Sun rises only after the darkest hours of the night ...But by that time if you had not been aware, life is gone ...Truth remains in death and you repent. Repentance is the feeling of guilt that always occurs tragically only after you have lost ...if only you could repent before the loss ...you wouldn't lose ...You'd always be happy ...truly ? is that so? No ...Arjuna wasn't happy even after Krishna showed him the way ...Arjuna repented just before the loss ..yet he wasn't happy ...He was neutral ...Not happy not guilty ...So is the feeling of neutrality a greater state of elation than being happy ? May be ...May be not ...Neutrality can be an absence of feeling ...or absence of guilt or pleasure ...Neutrality is a state of mind ...Heart doesn't come into play when you're neutral ...It's a mind-game.But when you come out of neutrality ...the same feeling of guilt or pleasure grips you ...and it grips you hard ...jolts you to the reality of this world ...to life ...and to miseries that you might have caused because of your neutrality ...Miseries ? Yes ! Miseries. Misery of life ...of worthless death ...What happened to Kauravas in the Great war of Mahabharata? They all died a worthless death. History still recalls them as evils. So what? Since history or myth still recalls them ...it means their death wasn't worthless ...they exist ...even now ...in our minds ...homes...hearts ...somewhere ...around you and me ...Pandavas and Krishnas are only followers of Kauravas ...so they can create the worth of life by virtue of demonstrating the dance of death!

The Illumination...The Truth ...

What has the power to unlock wisdom ?... prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on earth. Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists call it Harmonic Convergence and predict the actual date ...December 21, 2012 ...if you’re a believer in Mayan math...throughout history, all of mankind’s disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing—that a great enlightenment is coming. In every culture, in every era, in every corner of the world, the human dream has focused on the same exact concept—the coming apotheosis of man . . . the impending transformation of our human minds into their true potentiality ...

...What could possibly explain such a synchronicity of beliefs?

Maybe there is a universal truth embedded in everyone’s soul. Maybe we all have the same story hiding inside, like a shared constant in our DNA. Maybe this collective truth is responsible for the similarity in all of our stories. ...

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true . . . written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don’t understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us . . . vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called . . . re-membered . . . re-cognized . . . as that which is already inside us...
...unveiling the truth is never easy. Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are the laws of nature and balance. And if we look at the darkness growing in the world today, we have to realize that this means there is equal light growing. We are on the verge of a truly great period of illumination ...

...and all of us ...are profoundly blessed to be living through this pivotal moment of history. Of all the people who have ever lived, in all the eras in history . . . we are in that narrow window of time during which we will bear witness to our ultimate renaissance. After millennia of darkness, we will see our sciences, our minds, and even our religions unveil the truth....

The Significant Entropy

What is the destiny? All the ancient texts speak of good and evil . . . and of man’s need to choose between them. What is evil, if not a natural law? Darkness followed light. Chaos followed order. Entropy was fundamental. Everything decayed. The perfectly ordered crystal eventually turned into random particles of dust.

There are those who create . . . and those who destroy.

Krishna in Gita tells the same thing ...who are we to chose what we want to do...create ...destroy...It's HIM. It's Him who has a choice ...Angel or Demon ..any one of them can create or destroy ...Make life or death the destiny ...Good or evil...darkness or light...Sun is bright ...but the moon is less bright and disappears during the day ...to allow for the presence of the Sun to be felt ...But it comes back as soon as the day falls ...To make everyone aware that it's still there ...It has not lost its vigor ...When Krishna shows his grand personality "Viraat Roop", it has good as well as evil ...life as well as death ...light as well as darkness ... order as well as chaos ...signifying the very truth of existence and non-existence on this earth or any planet in this universe ...Every God,Demon,Human being has a good and evil within itself...each fighting with the other or making peace with the other depending upon what the Good or Evil wants ...and not what We want ...Surprising ..isn't it?But that's what the truth is...As always bitter ...Who are we to feel good or feel guilty of our deeds? ...Who are we to decide what is good and evil? Who are we to take pride in what we do or blame evil on others? Who are we who think they can bring change? No one ...No one ...No One ....

The power of thinking ...

The Power of Thinking!!!
Our thoughts actually interacted with the physical world, whether or not we knew it, effecting change all the way down to the subatomic realm.The stuff of magic and myth was fast becoming reality as the shocking new data poured in, all of it supporting the basic ideology of Noetic Science—the untapped potential of the human mind.The overall thesis was simple: We have barely scratched the surface of our mental and spiritual capabilities.

Mind over matter.

...the ancient spiritual belief in a “cosmic consciousness”—a vast coalescing of human intention that was actually capable of interacting with physical matter. Recently, studies in mass meditation and prayer had produced similar results in Random Event Generators, fueling the claim that human consciousness, as Noetic author Lynne McTaggart described it, was a substance outside the confines of the body . . . a highly ordered energy capable of changing the physical world. ......McTaggart’s book The Intention Experiment, and her global, Web-based study—
theintentionexperiment.com—aimed at discovering how human intention could affect the world...

Human thought can literally transform the physical world.

that “mind over matter” was not just some New Age self-help mantra. The mind had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the physical world to move in a specific direction.

We are the masters of our own universe.


particles themselves came in and out of existence based solely on her intention to observe them. In a sense, her desire to see a particle . . . manifested that particle. Heisenberg had hinted at this reality decades ago, and now it had be come a fundamental principle of Noetic Science. In the words of Lynne McTaggart: “Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real. The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.”that the mind’s ability to affect the physical world could be augmented through practice. Intention was a learned skill. Like meditation, harnessing the true power of “thought” required practice. More important . . . some people were born more skilled at it than others. And throughout history, there had been those few who had become true masters.

This is the missing link between modern science and ancient mysticism.

“Modern polarity is nothing but the ‘dual world’ described by Krishna here in the Bhagavad Gita over two thousand years ago. A dozen other books in here, including the Kybalion, talk about binary systems and the opposing forces in nature.” .....

if we talk about modern discoveries in subatomics—the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, for example—”....“Then we must look here, ..... “The sacred Hindu Vendantic scriptures known as the Upanishads.”“Heisenberg and Schrödinger studied this text and credited it with helping them formulate some of their theories.” ....
....

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it. There will come a day when modern science begins in earnest to study the wisdom of the ancients . . . that will be the day that mankind begins to find answers to the big questions that still elude him.” ...

The ancients possessed profound scientific wisdom. Today’s science was not so much making
“discoveries” as it was making “rediscoveries.” Mankind, it seemed, had once grasped the true nature of the universe . . . but had let go . . . and forgotten.....


And over this I and my friend, Yudi (He's doing his Phd in IIT, Delhi), talked, excerpts: (his name appears as "Coming" in this chat text)

Praveen:
heyyyyyyyyyyyy

Sent at 6:31 PM on Sunday

Coming:
hi
kya hal hai??

Praveen:
mast

Sent at 6:32 PM on Sunday

Coming:
kya ho raha hai??
aaj to teri chhuti hogi?

Praveen:
haan ji
thinking chal raha hai

.....

Praveen:
mind over matter
thoughts can change the physical world

Coming:
funde

Praveen:
my thoughts can bring you to nagpur ..and fly u back to delhi
can u beat that
the power of thinking

Coming:
but how its gng to change the physical stuff
as i m still here in delhi n u r in Nagpur

Praveen:
u r physical stuff ....and I can move u simply by the power of thought

Coming:
so its nt a physical change at all

Praveen:
thats what i'm saying ..
it will b possible
for example if u meditate ...
and think that a bowl of rice should start cooking itself ..
it will start cooking
thats the physical change
Krishna has said it in Gita

Coming:
where
can u do tht??

Praveen:
yes ... I can :)

Coming:
but not proven nywhere

Praveen:
thats what ...it doesn't need a proof

Coming:
its just a high thinking

Praveen:
only people who have that thinking power can do that
and it's a mystic thinking
a mystery ...that powerful thinkiners keep it wid thmeselves
but I'm divulging it 2 u ..
so u can also try ..
:)

Coming:
hahah
so nice of u

Praveen:
welcome ..welcome
;)

Coming:
but all this doesnt make sense until be proven wid physical stuff

Praveen:
what r the IIT guys doing ?
I hv given u an idea ..an idea that is written in Gita ..in golden words ..
it was taken up to produce atom bomb ..
so can u not take this up and produce a thinking bomb

Coming:
they r just tryng to get some oppurunity to get their degrees or a visa to US

Praveen:
something hat can actually change the world simply by thinking
I hav done enough research today ...

Coming:
dont tell me tht Gita has given the basics of Atom bomb

Praveen:
that leads me to believe that random event generators (REGs) n royal society of London and at other places generated similar events ...on 09/11
at other times they wee simpk,y showing chaotic events
but when all the world was thinking abt the same thing ...
it changed ...
Gita was actually the basic of atom bomb

Coming:
:)

Praveen:
the father of atom bomb, oppenheimer, german scientist, working for US .... was devout follower of gita
and in Gita ... when Krishna takes the Virat roop ..

Coming:
tht doesnt mean tht he got the formula from Geeta

Praveen:
which fails the brightness of 1000 suns
it's what the atom bomb is .. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

Coming:
thts just a poetic imagination
nthng else

Praveen:
u IIT guys are stupid products producing nothing productive

Coming:
if u'll read the old stories of ny part of the world u'll able to find many fantacies like tht

Praveen:
get the hell out of IIT
no fantasies..

Coming:
IIT ids nt a place to b productive

Praveen:
m telling u ...

Coming:
its just a machine
creating a product for some money generation

Praveen:
my thoughts ...and ur thoughts ..if they think and meditate on the same thing ..
they can produce strange constructive results

Coming:
hmm
lets c
not now but probably after some time

Praveen:
so I can fly u to nagpur and back..
simply by thinking ...

Coming:
coz this time atleats till october i dont ve a time

......


Coming:
hahah

Praveen:
okay ..with our thinking we can stop time ticking ...
and travel timelessly

Coming:
hmm

Praveen:
that's possible too ..in the world of untapped thinking power of human mind

Coming:
hmmm
nice idea
lets do sth

Praveen:
so u wanna join ?
in this thinking experiment ?
think ..think and think ...and meditate ...
and meditate to change this world ...and harness all the flying energy all around us

Coming:
hahah
i dont ve a time to tht now
but u ve
so do some batleast basic stuff

Praveen:
all IITians are stupid fellas running after just the degree ...not anything new to experiment
hahahahaha

Coming:
they r overburdend by their cirriculam
so they cant do the meditation

Praveen:
u can change that too ...by the thinking process

Coming:
na..u ve to change it by some other mean

Praveen:
u can think and convey ur concern without speaking a word to ur professor ...and get grades ...

Coming:
hahaha
hypnotism

Praveen:
like in Munnabhai first movie ...munnabhai says "Palattt" to the actress in the hospital ..and she turns around ...
that's the magic of thinking ...

Coming:
hahah

Praveen:
u see ..the bollywood drectors an script writers have got more brains than IITians ...

Coming:
thts movie my dear frnd
n nything can happen ovr there

Praveen:
u guys r wastage o energy and time and money ..

Coming:
IIT never claim to ve most of th brains

Praveen:
hehehehehe
chal take care ..

Coming:
sure

Praveen:
I'll talk to you when my rice bowl gets ready .. :D

......

Coming:
....
tu aur teri birbal ki khichadi

Praveen:
hehehehe'
bbyeeeeeee

Make a wish ...

Click on this image, cross your eyes and make a wish ...




Most readers will probably recognize this one right away as an autostereogram (also
called Magic Eye), a popular fad in the 1980s and 1990s. Autostereograms are computergenerated images which when viewed with crossed eyes, appear as a vivid threedimensional image magically suspended in mid-air.
So if you have not yet seen the image hidden in the picture, please give it a crack now. It works best if you place your face about 30 cm from the image and then cross your eyes until an image appears. Make sure to make a wish before doing so.
If you don't know how to cross your eyes, see this.
The scientific explanation for how Magic Eye images work is rather simple. The image
consists of a series of repeating patterns. For the type of autostereogram that I used in the comic, the image appears as a random set of dots when viewed normally. However, when a viewer looks at the image at close distance while crossing her eyes at just the right angle, each of her eyes are fixed on a different set of an adjacent pair in the repeating pattern and her brain mistakenly perceives the two patterns as a single image at a different distance.

Maithili

I was trying to compile some of the stuffs in my native language ... :P
The saying is "One who does not know Maithili deserves one's ears to be pulled"
जे ने बूझै मैथिलि, तकर कान पकैर क ऐंठ ली ... :)
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हिन्दी --> मैथिलि ( उदाहरण )
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अ़ब / अभी --> आब / अखन (अब चलो --> आब चलू / चौलू )
कब --> कखन (कब आओगे --> कखन ऍब / ऐबय)
तब /तभी --> तखन (मैंने बोला तब उसने बोला --> होम कहलियय/कहल्यैन, तखन ओ कहलखिन )
कैसे --> केना (ये कैसे हुआ ? -- > ई केना भेल ?)
कैसा --> केहेन (अब तबियत कैसी है --> आब तबियत केहेन अईछ / अई)
थोड़ा --> कनी (मुझे थोड़ा सा चाहिए --> हमरा कनी चाही)
(मुझे थोड़ा सा हीं चाहिए -> हमरा कनिक्के चाही)
क्यूँ --> कीयै (ये क्यूँ कर रहे हो ? --> ई कीयै क रहल छी ?)
क्या --> कथी / की ? (क्या कहा? --> की/कथी कहलयय?)
कहाँ --> कत्त (कहाँ जा रहे हो ? --> कत्त जाई छी ?)
कौन --> के / कून (कौन/किसने बोला --> के कहलक ?)
(कौन सा खिलौना चाहिए --> कून खिलौना चाही ?)
मैं/हम --> होम (मैं झा बोल रहा हूँ --> होम झा बाईज रहल छी)
तुम/आप --> अहाँ (आपका नाम क्या है ? --> आहाँ के नाम की अईछ ?)
ये --> ई (ये क्या है ? --> ई कथी/की छई ?)
वो --> ओ (मुझे वो लाल वाली चुडियाँ दिखाओ --> हमरा ओ लाल वला चूड़ी देखाउ )
है / हैं --> अईछ / छी (मेरे पास पैसा है --> हमरा लग पैसा अईछ)
उसका --> हुनकर ( ये उसकी कार है --> ई हुनकर कार छैन / छई)
इसका --> हिनकर /एकर (इसका मैथिलि क्या होगा ? --> एकर मैथिलि की हेतय ?)
बोलो --> बाजू (तुम बोलो --> अहाँ बाजू)
बोला था --> बजने छलौं (तुमने बोला था --> अहाँ बजने छलौं / )
बोला जाएगा /बोलोगे --> बाजब/कहब ( बाद में बोलोगे की मैंने कहा --> बाद में कहब/बाजब जे होम बजलउ /कहलउ)
बोलने वाले हैं --> बाजोँ वाला छी
बोल रहे हैं --> बाईज रहल छी (तुम बोल रहे हो --> अहाँ बाईज रहल छी)
शाम --> सांझ
नहीं --> नैयं (मुझे नहीं खाना नहीं खाना --> होम नैयं खैब / हमरा खाना नैयं खै के अईछ)
कुछ --> किछो (कुछ भी बोलो --> किछो कहू )


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Common sentences
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खाना हो गया ?
-- भ गेल खाना ?
आप कैसे हैं ?
--अहाँ के की हाल चाल ?
मैं ठीक हूँ
-- होम ठीक छी
मैं इंडिया जा रही/रहा हूँ
-- होम इंडिया जा रहल छी
एक काम करो
--एकटा काज करू
तुम मुंबई कि तरफ़ जाओ मुझे ऑफिस में काम है
--अहाँ मुंबई के तरफ़ जाऊ हमरा ऑफिस में काज अईछ
आज का दिन कैसा गया?
-- आई के दिन केहेन गेल?
मैं पागल हो गई/गया हूँ
-- होम पागल भ गेल छी
क्या कर रहे थे
-- की क रहल छलौं


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some more .... English --> Maithili
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I --> होम
he --> ओ
She --> ओ
You --> अहाँ
It --> ई
One/two/three --> एकटा / दुटा /तीनटा
Come --> आउ
Came --> एल्खिन
Will come --> एथीन
Open --> खोलू
e।g. open it now --> आब खोलू
it's open --> ई खूजल छई

Opened --> खूलल / खूजल
e.g. it has opened --> ई खुइज गेल छई
he opened --> ओ खोललखिन

Will open --> खोल्थींह / खुजतई
e.g. it will open --> ई खुजतई
Ram will open it --> राम एकरा खोल्थींह

Sit --> बईसू
Walk --> चलू / चौलू
Eat --> खाऊ
Drink --> पीबू
Win -->
Go -->
Run -->
I go -->
He goes -->
He eats an apple -->
He is eating an apple -->
He ate an apple -->
I saw the film last week -->
She came by bus yesterday -->
They went to the mosque -->
He slept the whole night -->
He wrote well in the examination -->
He has eaten -->
He had eaten -->
He had gone -->
He had come -->
He will eat -->
He will go -->
He will come -->
What is your name? -->
What -->
Is -->
Your -->
Name -->
What did you do? -->
What should I do? -->
What can I do? -->
What are the questions? -->
What were the questions? -->
What is the last question? -->
What is written in the letter? -->
What you had been told? -->
What will be the answer? -->
Why did you come? -->
Why did you sleep? -->
Why did you tell him to go? -->
Why did he bring the bag? -->
Why did she pay the money? -->
Why did they sit there? -->
Why do you drive the car? -->
Why are they late for the meeting? -->
How did you come? -->
How did you sleep? -->
How did you drive? -->
How did you write? -->
How many apples are there in my hand? -->
How many did you take? -->
How much did he pay you? -->
How was the journey yesterday? -->
Which way did you come? -->
Which is your favourite colour? -->
In which room did you sleep? -->
Which story did you tell? -->
Which is the sweetest fruit? -->
Which is the best newspaper? -->
Which Indian state has the largest population? -->
Where did you come from? -->
Where did you sleep? -->
Where is the manager’s cabin? -->
Where should I go? -->
Whom should I contact? -->

An approach to Love

Mumbai local

A giant step for the Mankind ...

Your Present is Your Past and Future (तू आज का मालिक है )

तू आज का मालिक है ...
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आज की हीं ज़िन्दगी है, कल क्या होगा किसको पता ?
आज में जो तू जिया तो, कल का सूरज तेरा हुआ।

बीते कल की बात छोड़ो, हाथ मलके न कुछ होगा
आज की तारीख तेरी, इसमें तू कुछ कर के बता।

मान ले तू बात मेरी, आज यही बस कल होगा
कल कभी भी आज न हो, आज में जो तू बैठा।

दुनिया उनके पैर पकड़े, आज में जो हैं जीते
आज को पहचाने न जो, ठोकरों को वो पीते।

आज में तकदीर तेरी, आज हीं तस्वीर है
हर एक कल का तू है मालिक, आज गर तू धीर है ।

Listen to this poem in my voice ...

Tomorrow Will Be No Different (कल फिर से वही आलम होगा)

Another election in India is over and results are out. There will again be a government of uneducated, so called, leaders. They will again fail to bring in changes. There are just a few young faces in the list who will learn how "not to" develop the country and leave it at the mercy of foreign debt ... Alas, when will this end ...
कल फिर से वही आलम होगा
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आज जीत की खुशियाली है
कल फिर से वही आलम होगा
लोमड़ फिर से जमे हुए हैं
मजलिश में फिर मातम होगा

चार मरेंगे इस नुक्कड़ पर
और चौदह की बली चढ़ेगी
कल मरते थे कल भी मरेंगे
बाढ़ भूख की नहीं थमेगी

पाँच बरस पर दिखते थे वो
पाँच बरस पर ही दिखेंगे
रोटी कपड़ा छत की चाहत
कल थी कल भी वहीं रहेंगे

एक भगत हो कोई ऐसा
चुन चुन कर वो सबको मारे
और बुनें हम भारत ऐसा
इज्ज़त से सब नाम पुकारे ।

If You want you can listen to the poem in my voice ...

Meaning of Winning an Indian Election

Now that congress and allies have won ...and results are still coming .... here is a great cartoon which says what's going to be the status of politicians for the next 5 years ...
(The image is taken from Times Of India newspaper- You Said It section by R K Laxman).
This truly shows the current thinking of the politicians and the attention that the public deserves ...

The Eternal Truth of Mortal Life (ज़िंदगी का कड़वा सच)

ज़िंदगी का कड़वा सच
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वो हवा से
बातें करता
जा रहा था

ठोकरों से
दुनियां को
भरमा रहा था

चर्चे उसके
हर तरफ़ हीं
हो रहे थे

लोग उसकी
बातें करके
खो रहे थे

क्या पता था
एक दिन है
उसको गिरना

दुनियां की है
ठोकरों मैं
उसको परना

हाय जालिम !
दुनियां ऐसी
क्यूँ बनाई

हर वो अपनी
चीज़ जो थी
है पराई

अपने उसके
आज बेगाने
हुए हैं

हर वो खूबी
जो थी कल तक
निगाहों पर

आज वो सब
बदले पैमाने
हुए हैं

सीखना है
ज़िंदगी से
आज उसको

पाठशाला वही
एक है
जो है चलता

समय की
पाबंदियों से
है परे वो

ख़ुद के अन्दर
जो हमेशा
झांकते हैं

दुनियां को
वो पारखी हीं
जानते हैं

ज़िंदगी की
सीख खट्टी
और मीठी

तपता रखे
आपबीती
की अंगीठी

भूल जाए
शत्रुओं को
याद रखे दोस्ती

वही सूरज
बढ़ता आगे
इस सदी औ हर सदी
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Life is typically hard with some people... specially with people who want to do things differently ...different from the regular accepted way of life ... They face a hell lot of troubles ...and during the days of hardships ...all his good qualities which people used to praise about turn into evils ... But he learns ...learns from every fall ...that's a REAL HUMAN BEING... He bounces back after learning ...and the best learning is that you should forget all such people who were against you ...and must remember all your good friends at all times ...Also remember all the difficulties you had and how you overcame them with limited or no resources ...all on your own ...

If you want you can listen to this poem in my voice ...

Save Your Life From Mar

Dedicated to lethargy ...

Save Your Life From Mar
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Tring tring tring
I'm the lazy king
'm not here for labor
That's a crazy thing!

My mind wants to work
And heart presses fork
I being a lazy dog
Jus'Drink open the cork!

Focus on the goal
Teaches every soul
But my lazy inner being
Escapeth with the dole!

Tough is the road
Be a croaking toad
Jump on your hind limbs
Break it with your KO'd!

Win Win every war
Breaking every bar
Kill your inner lazy being
To save your life from Mar!
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If you want you can listen to the poem in my voice ...

For The Freedom of My Country (आओ बदलें देश को)

आओ बदलें देश को
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क्या भला और क्या बुरा है
जानता अब मैं नहीं
देश को स्वतंत्र करने
फिर जुटें हम सब यहीं

गए गोरे छोड़ कर जब
हम बँटे ही रह गए
टुकरे टुकरे दिल के अरमां
आसुओं में बह गए

कल के गोरे आज नेता
कुछ भी तो बदला नहीं
आओ बदलें देश को अब
राम, सिख, जो और रहीम

देश का हर कोना अपना
दलदलों मैं है फसा
ढूंढ कर है खोलना
अब सिकंजा जो है कसा

मौत भी आए अगर तो
हँस के हम कुर्बान हों
आने वाले युग की खातिर
आओ हम परवान हों
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If you want you can listen to this poem in my voice ...

Recalling My Childhood (तस्वीरों में ढूंढता हूँ वो सुनहरे पल मेरे...)

तस्वीरों में ढूंढता हूँ वो सुनहरे पल मेरे
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तस्वीरों में ढूंढता हूँ वो सुनहरे पल मेरे
धुंधली सी यादें हैं जो हैं संजोये ज़िंदगी

तस्वीरों में ढूंढता हूँ वो सुनहरे पल मेरे...

बालपन की हरकतों में खुशियों की थी डोलियाँ
हम बड़े होते गए हैं भर के गम की झोलियाँ...

तस्वीरों में ढूंढता हूँ वो सुनहरे पल मेरे...

ममता की आँचल में छिपता डर के मैं अंधेरों से
अब अंधेरे रह गए हैं दिल की राहत के लिए ...

तस्वीरों में ढूंढता हूँ वो सुनहरे पल मेरे...

गुद-गुदी आती थी दिल में दोस्तों को सोच कर
मैं कबीले का था राजा, रंक हूँ अब राह पर

तस्वीरों में ढूंढता हूँ वो सुनहरे पल मेरे...

गेंद ही थी दिल की धड़कन, गेंद में ही जान थी
ज़िंदगी की गेंद मेरी अब चिढाती है मुझे ...

तस्वीरों में ढूंढता हूँ वो सुनहरे पल मेरे...

बातों में थी बाकपन और मन थी मेरी चंचला
भूल कर वो सपने सारे, राह पर हूँ अब खड़ा ...

तस्वीरों में ढूंढता हूँ वो सुनहरे पल मेरे...
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If you want you can listen to this Ghazal in my voice ...

The College Days (कॉलेज के दिन)

कॉलेज के दिन ...
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कॉलेज की हर बात मुझे अब याद जो आती है
मन पछताए, दिल को हसाएं, याद वो आती है

शाम को मेरे कमरे में वो दोस्त पुराने थे
जब दिल चाहा झगड़ लिया तब लाख बहाने थे

बात न होती कई दिनों तक, अदनी बातों पे
यार ही लाते खींच तान के होश ठिकाने पे

शाम-ऐ-नज़ारा ऐसा होता मजनू लैला के
मिलते थे सब चौराहे पर, बातें बनाते थे

हम जैसे जो यार शराबी क्या क्या करते थे
पिया मिलन के चौक पे हम तो नाटक करते थे

भूख लगी तो गुल्लक देखें पास परोसी के
दम भर खाना और ये कहना "सैंडी" पे लिख ले

नींद थी आती हर दम भाई नाम को पढ़ते थे
जी भर गाली उनको देते जो पढ़ते सच में थे

याद बड़े वो आज भी आएं हमदर्द पुराने से
मैं हूँ अकेला आज बहोत अब तंग जमाने से

दिन लौटा दे फिर से कोई दिन वो सुहाने थे ...
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If you want you can listen to these lines in my voice ...

Mumbai Taxiwala (मुंबई टैक्सीवाला )

मुंबई का वो बद-नसीब टैक्सी वाला जो हर रात उनका इंतज़ार कर रहा होता है ...कि आज वो आयेंगी ...आज जरूर आयेंगी ...और जब वो आती हैं तो स्टेशन से "अँधेरी" जाने को बोल कर दिल की सारी बात छू - मंतर कर देती हैं ...
सुनिए टैक्सी वाले की ज़ुबानी उसी की कहानी ...

मैं मुंबई का टैक्सीवाला ...
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कल रात की है बात
जो न सोचा था मेरे साथ
होगा वही हुई फिर बात
सुन लो सनसनाती रात

थी कल आई मेरे पास
रुक गई मेरी धड़कन साँस
काले बदरों की अठ्ठाश
बढ़ती मेरे दिल की प्यास

फिर अधरों से निकले बोल
टैक्सी वाले "भैया" खोल
सवारी "अंधेरी" की टोल
बदला मन का सब माहौल

जाने कब आयेगी रात
होगी उनसे मुलाक़ात
फिर नयनों से होगी बात
उनके हाथों में हों हाथ

मेरे सपनों की वो नैया
बह न जाए बिन खेवैया
मत कर तू अब ता-ता थैय्या
तपता है "प्रवीण" गवैय्या !
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If you want you can listen to the poem in my voice ...