Monday, December 29, 2014
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Monday, December 15, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Monday, December 1, 2014
Death - 0 (The beginning of the end)
December always gives me a feeling as if someone is dying. And every year, year after year, I found it was the year that was found dying through December.
But death, unlike life, is not so bad or painful or difficult. It's easy - you just have to lie there!
Anyhow, this month of December 2014 is for death. You know why? Because death is a poem. Remember what Gulzar wrote for 'Anand' and Rajesh Khanna recited:
But this is not to mourn the death or the dead. This is to celebrate death as once in a lifetime event. So don't be sad or disgusted or sorry. Just remember what the gentleman and lovely statesman poet Atal Bihari Vajpayee once wrote:
But death, unlike life, is not so bad or painful or difficult. It's easy - you just have to lie there!
Anyhow, this month of December 2014 is for death. You know why? Because death is a poem. Remember what Gulzar wrote for 'Anand' and Rajesh Khanna recited:
मौत तू एक कविता है
मुझसे एक कविता का वादा है,
मिलेगी मुझको
But this is not to mourn the death or the dead. This is to celebrate death as once in a lifetime event. So don't be sad or disgusted or sorry. Just remember what the gentleman and lovely statesman poet Atal Bihari Vajpayee once wrote:
जन्म दिवस पर हम इठलाते,
क्यों ना मरण त्यौहार मनाते,
अन्तिम यात्रा के अवसर पर,
आँसू का अशकुन होता है।
Friday, November 28, 2014
Friday, November 21, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
Friday, November 7, 2014
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Monday, October 27, 2014
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Happy Birthday Majaaz
रास्ते में रुक के दम लूँ, ये मेरी आदत नहीं
लौट कर वापस चला जाऊँ, मेरी फ़ितरत नहीं
और कोई हमनवा मिल जाये, ये क़िस्मत नहीं
ऐ ग़म-ए-दिल क्या करूँ, ऐ वहशत-ए-दिल क्या करूँ
लौट कर वापस चला जाऊँ, मेरी फ़ितरत नहीं
और कोई हमनवा मिल जाये, ये क़िस्मत नहीं
ऐ ग़म-ए-दिल क्या करूँ, ऐ वहशत-ए-दिल क्या करूँ
असरारुल हक़ "मजाज़" लखनवी
Also, Happy Birthday to me!
This was clicked by a friend
during the Poetry Talk
at IIM Ahmedabad on Mar 5, 2014.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014
Friday, August 15, 2014
जिंदाबाद! इन्क़लाब!
नफ़स नफ़स, कदम कदम
बस एक फ़िक्र दम-बदम
घिरे हैं हम सवाल से हमें जबाब चाहिए !
जबाब दर सवाल है कि इन्क़लाब चाहिए !
इन्क़लाब ! जिंदाबाद !
जिंदाबाद ! इन्क़लाब !
जहाँ अवाम के खिलाफ साजिशें हो शान से
जहाँ पे बेगुनाह हाथ धो रहे हो जान से
जहाँ पे लफ्ज-ए-अम्न एक खौफ़नाक राज़ हो
जहाँ कबूतरों का सर परस्त एक बाज़ हो
वहाँ ना चुप रहेंगे हम
कहेंगे, हाँ कहेंगे हम
हमारा हक़, हमारा हक़ हमें जनाब! चाहिये !
घिरे हैं हम सवाल से हमें ज़बाब चाहिए !
ज़बाब दर सवाल है कि इन्क़लाब चाहिए !
इन्क़लाब ! जिंदाबाद !
जिंदाबाद ! इन्क़लाब !
शलभ श्रीराम सिंह
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
रे रे चातक सावधान
This is a Jacobin Cuckoo or a Pied Cuckoo. She is said to be a harbinger of monsoon. And the much awaited delayed rains began the day I saw her.
On July 14, 2014, as I was driving to my office, she flew above my car across the road. I couldn't see for sure what was that. Therefore, when I reached the parking, I proceeded the woods behind New MDC building. After almost 15 futile minutes, I was about to return when I decided to check that bird again which seemed too familiar to pay attention. And there she was - my first sighting of a चातक - the subject of so much of Sanskrit and Hindi poetry.
It is said that this bird waits patiently for rains to arrive and to quench its thirst. She doesn't drink from any other source but the drops of the first rains. And if it doesn't rain, well... that is why there is poetry!
रे रे चातक सावधान मनसा मित्र क्षणं श्रूयताम्
अम्बोदा बहवो वसन्ति गगने सर्वेऽपि नैतादृशाः
केचिद् वृष्टिभिरार्द्रयन्ति धरणीं गर्जन्ति केचिद् वृथा
यं यं पश्यसि तस्य तस्य पुरतो मा ब्रुहि दीनं वचः
भर्तृहरि / नीतिशतक / ४७
ओ चातक!
घड़ी भर को
ज़रा कान देकर सुनो मेरी बात
बहुत से बादल हैं आकाश में
पर एक से नहीं हैं
सारे बादल
कुछ हैं बरसते
जो भिगो डालते हैं सारी पृथ्वी को
और कुछ हैं जो
सिर्फ़ गरजते ही रहते हैं लगातार
ओ मित्र
मत मांगो हर एक से दया की भीख!
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Monday, July 21, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Monday, June 30, 2014
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Friday, June 20, 2014
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Happiness is a Bird
I have been putting out water bowl for birds for past few months. Some birds have become a regular at that spot now. So the other day, I emptied the pot to clean and started watering the plants in my garden. Then only, a couple of peafowls appeared and checked the empty pot. I felt so sorry for leaving the pot empty. And amazingly, when I tried filling the pot with the pipe, the birds didn't fly away - they just waited very close. That gave me some courage to put out some rice and bird-feed as well. The peafowls were not perturbed by my presence and rather, watched me curiously. As soon as I put the rice out, they came close and started eating. I clicked this picture from my kitchen window and kept watching them for over 15 minutes or so. That was a sheer blissful morning... after all, happiness is a bird!
Friday, May 30, 2014
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Friday, April 25, 2014
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
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