Jaadon ki sardi aur kunkuna sa paani

Woh Jaadon ki sardi aur kunkuna sa paani,
Teri meri, meri teri, phir woh kahaani.

Woh aag ke kinare raat main chai ki chuskiyaan,
Meri teri, teri meri, dooriyon main woh siskiyan.

Woh baadalon ki chaadar aur ye palakon ki zameen,
Meri teri, Teri meri, hamari yeh duniya hui rangeen.


Woh garmi ki loo, aur suraj ki tapish,
Teri meri, meri teri, apni yeh kashish.

Woh baraf ka pighalna, woh kohra aur dhuan,
Tera mera, mera tera, yeh pyaar hai phir hua.

Woh neele aasmaan main chaand ki athkheliyan,
Teri meri, meri teri chup chup kyun rangraliyaan.


Saundhi si khooshboo, Baarish ki pehli boond,
Tene maine, maine tene, apni aankhen moond.

Woh baarish ka mausam, bheegi si raatein,
Teri meri, meri teri, pyaari si hain baatein.

Woh baadal ki garaj aur paani ki tap tap,
Teri meri, meri teri roomani si gup shup.

Woh koyal ki kuhu, woh tota aur woh maina,
Tere mere, mere tere, batiyaye apne naina.

Unleashing my creativity after almost a decade, feel so good

Yup, after almost a decade, this diwali, decided to spend sometime creating something I used to do 9-10 years back, sitting in my aangan and make rangoli :-). And I feel so good :-)

Ek Din

Ek din sapnon main kuch aisi baarish hogi,
Pahaadon ko cheerati ek chanchal nadi hogi,
Hawaon main soundhi-soundhi si mehek hogi,
Kisi shaam kuch aise unse mulakaat hogi.

Yeh nazarein ek baar phir se betaab hogi,
Saanse roomani, dhadkanon main dhun hogi.
Yeh dil gayega, geet main unki hi baat hogi,
Dhoop to hai hi, narm chaon bhi sunhari hogi.

Woh saral hogi, mann main komalta hogi,
Julfein jo lehrayengi to bus raat hogi.
woh muskura jaye to kaliyan phool hogi,
Hase to baadal garaje, aur varsha hogi.

Jab milegi nazarein unse, to yun to khamoshi hogi,
Hoth chup, aankhon hi aankhon main baatein hogi.
Hum kuch kahein na kahein, aawaz hamari un tak hogi,
Hum unke dil aur woh hamare nazar-o-dil main hogi.

Rahoon main phir se phool honge, kaliyaan hogi,
Patjhad ke baad phir se suhaani vasant ritu hogi.
Sang khelenge holi, phir se zindagi rangeen hogi,
Deepak main phir jyoti, aakash main aatishbaazi hogi.

Jeene Ki Arzoo

After "Har Lamhe Bus Pal Do Pal Ke", phir se kuch mann hua
us pari ke baarein thodi baatein aur kar li jaayein, to bus yun hi - 

Har raat sapno main aati hai, kuch aisi baatein kar jati hai,
So jata hoon mithason main, lekin subah to phir ho jati hai.
Mar to gaye hi the hum, usne phir se nayi jaan dal di hai,
kuch aisa amrit diya hai, jeene ke sahi arzoo ab pa lee hai.

Mayne badal gaye hai zindagi ke, kuch sahi hai, baaki sahi ho jayenge,
socha na tha, zindagi ke mod kabhi kahaan kabhi kahaan le jayenge.
Hum khush rehne ka vada karte hain, khushi khushi sab seh jayenge,
Aap bus yunhi gungunate rehna, dhun to saath main hum dete jayenge.

Woh kehti hai kyun nahi bulaya sapno main mujhe pehle,
Main kehta hoon neend kahan thi inn aakhon main akele.
Kabhi dard ka ehsaas tha to kabhi kisi ko khone ka darr,
Ab aa gaye ho to rehna inn aakhon main yunhi ujale ujale.

Nahi jaanta hoon main ki yeh duniya mil payegi tumse kabhi,
Ek pyaari dost jiski aakhon main hai chupi baatein badi badi.
O Pari, Sach to yahi tumhare kaaran mili yeh zindagi nayi,
Iss dosti ko nazar na lage, khuda se maangte yahi dua abhi.

Har Lamhe Bus Pal Do Pal Ke

Jab us pari ne "Ruhaani si mehek" padha,
aur usne apni khushi ki jaahir,
Maine likh di phir kuch aur panktiyan,
kuch is tarah ban gayi woh meri prerna.

Pari hai ya hai woh ek sadharan insaan,
Dost to thi woh meri kabse, ab dost-e-khaas.
Yeh saara padhkar ho gayi woh bhi hairan,
Sochi, itne keemati hai uske yeh sab nishaan.

Lagi woh jhoomne, gaane, chikhne aur chillane,
Zameen kya falak tak bhi nahi the uske thikane.
Paro pe kaboo na raha, udd gayi door gagan main,
Fitoor tha yeh uska, le aayi bahaar chaman main.

Usne sikhaya kaise udte hain aasmaan main bin paro ke,
Aur ye bhi sikha maine ki kaise haste hai bin adharo ke.
Ashqon main bhi swaad hota hai jab girte hain gaalon pe,
Hamesha muskurate rehna, har lamhe bus pal do pal ke.

Tasavvur main hai woh, mere khwabon-khayalon main,
Khumari hai ab ya kuch iss tarah hi zindagi ki dagar hai.
Uth bhi jaye parda uski asliyat se to kuch khabar hai,
Uski woh baatein mere dil main ab shaam-o-seher hai.

Log puchte hain mujhse ki batao hai kaun yeh haseen pari,
Main kehta hoon sabse ki jaan jaoge aane do woh ghadi.
Rehne do parde main abhi, achi lag rahi hai woh chupi chupi,
Kya kaafi nahi hai itna, mere dil-e-nazar main hai woh basi.

Rang - "Lamhe - The moment of Colours"

Rang main ada, rang main hai Khuda,
Rango ki baatein hai sabse judaa.
Rang de mujhko tu, sang main apne ko tu.
Rang de duniya ko, iss pure jahan ko tu.

Rang se hai zindagi, rang se hi bandagi.
Rangeen yeh mausam hai, rangeen yeh dillagi.
Dukh main bhi hai rang, sukh main bhi rang rang,
Chala chal tu jeevan main, chale rang tere sang sang.

Rang se hai Rangoli, mast rangeen yeh Diwali,
Rang se hai rishte-naatein, rang se hi kheli Holi.
Rang se dil milte hai, dil main phool khilte hai,
Phoolo se bani mala, phoolo se hai ban-maali.

Rang ka na koi dharam, na jaati, aur na hi koi bhasha hai,
Bhar de zindagi main khushi, rang ki yeh paribhasha hai.
Sab rang mil jaye to indra-dhanush ban jata hai,
Rang main mil khil kar manush poora ho jata hai.

Rang main ada, rang main hai Khuda,
Rango ki baatein hai sabse judaa.
Rang de mujhko tu, sang main apne ko tu.
Rang de duniya ko, iss pure jahan ko tu.

Ruhaani si Mehek

Pari ek mere sapno main aayi,

Aakar ek nayi raah usne dikhayi.

Kuch ruhaani si mehek thi usme,

Jeene ki kuch alag si chaahat thi usme.

- Woh shabdo ke roop main jo barse phool, kuch yun kehna tha uska -

Nadi hoon main, pari hoon main, pahad hai, pathar bhi hai rahon main,

Ek din to saagar main mil jana hai, magar aade-tedhe kinaro ka maza to uthana hai.

Din hai to raat to hogi hi, andhera jaayaz hai,

Raat to guzar jana hai, dard-e-ehsaas reh jana hai.

Aur naye din, sooraj ki pehli kiran ka intezar hai,

Magar is raat ki chubhan main bhi kuch mithaas hai.

- Woh phool jab lage mann ko mere, aaya samajh main kuch yun mujhe -

Har ek din ek nayi shuruaat hai, yeh andhera to chand palon ki baat hai.

Ek pari aur kuch farishte hi nahi, yeh khoobsoorat duniya mere saath hai.

- Usne phir farmaya kuch is tarah -

Kisi din jab ek sunhari dhoop main baithe sochoge tum,

Yeh raatein, yeh andhere, aur yeh ehsaas, karoge yaad tum.

Inhi raaton ne nikhara hai, aur dinon ne khilaya hai tumhe,

Bus bhool na jana unko, mushkilon main sambhala hai tumhe.

Hum bhi hai, safar bhi hai, dariya hai, paani bhi hai, aage to jana hai.

Leharo ko kaatate chalo, kinare tak yunhi koi humsufar bhi mil jana hai.

Pyaar to bus dene ka naam hai, pyaar ki aas rakhna khud se bemani hai,

Pa lo tum jo chaho to mauj hai, nahi to rab ne kuch aur thaani hai.

- Aur phir main samjha kuch yun -

Tere swar bane saans meri, aur shabd bane muskurahat meri,

Mere dard ko usne apne andaaz se banaya khilkhilahat meri.

Khoobsoorat duniya ko de naye rang tu, kuch is tarah zindagi jee teri,

O pari, mor-pankhon si hai shobha, koyal si hai chah-chahat teri.

Billi raasta kat gayi, and then ???

From a real incident in my life ...

Morning as early as 05:30 AM.
Standing outside a guest-house, me with a friend,
Kolkata and taxi strike the same morning,
And, have a flight to bangalore to catch in sometime.
Started walking towards the main road,
In hope of getting taxi or some conveyence to reach airport.

And....
Kaali Billi raasta kaat gayi?

Whatz next?

Comments please...



To Be Continued ...
...

Can we reason ourselves and follow our heart?

Recently read 2 blogs and result - I am also on this Lamhe - The Moments page again.
Kiran's - Break Free, Un-shackle, Disrobe

Rashmi Bansal's - The Naked Truth


Kiran, very well written, all of these points are something which has been in my mind from a long time, and you know what, I keep telling or suggesting my younger brothers, sisters, cousins etc that "its not how the world is, what matters is how you are. Its you who is going to decide what path you have to take, good or bad."
Same like you, even I had pre-concieved notions and they all only broken when I get into Engg Hostel and get to meet/live to all kinds of people.
One more thing to keep in mind is "Nobody is BAD for all, he is obviously good for some or the other". We cannot be just against one and supporting other. Life is about walking all together.
"Smoking" and "Drinking" (Read over-alcohalic) is always bad, but not necessarily the person doing it. yes, we have been told in our childhood so that we doesn't get attracted to the bad habbits. The point is that this is not the right method, but this is the only way we Indian have been doing it and keep doing it still.
The correct way out here is to explain in the childhood about the goods and evils of relavant things and let them give an option to choose.
Writing this I remember "My Name is Khan" scene where the SRK's mother in childhood time, explains him by drawing the 2 similar pictures and ask SRK to choose ond of them, and in real life too, this is gonna work surely.
Coming to second point of "vegeterian:non-vegeterian" debates, I have to say only one thing - its not about good or bad, its about ecological balance, employment, way-of-living, bread-&-butter, sustainence etc etc.
Kiran's last point about "Shame" deserves special applaud. And it again goes back to the same point-1 thing, that we have been following the wrong methods to correct children.

About Rashmi's blog, I am not pointing all the things here, but one thing I have to say there is that every paragraph of her blog poses a question in front of us and forces us to think.
India is really a diverse country, I feel more bad things then any good about it, for exampple the latest includes -
(1) Khap panchayat & Honor killings
(2) Different opinions of religions on smoking and drinking as well as dressing
(3) Various cultures and their customary beliefs

If we count like above, we will just doing whole day and it will still not be over.

I have also been in the US for a short time and it was a good experience, being there living their life. It was a life-time experience. My US collague told me once - "All people come here and capture the scenaries in cameras, and YOU have lived the Life here, captured the American culture which you will take with you".

What I am trying to say here is - Rashmi's blog is very true in all sense, but first of all we need to find the root of why its happening, why we have these beliefs and lets come forward to break it. Loosen ourself.

Many places outside India like US, the best thing is less diversity. One fact - "There are as many similarities in European Countries as we have dis-similarities in Indian states itself". We need to come out of these cultural beliefs and reason ourselves intelligently and logically without hurting the existing "right" facts. And finally we need to follow our heart.
The day you leave any worries aside about what others are thinking, you are gonna live the world fully, that's for sure. But never cross a thin line in whatever you do while following your heart.

Not everything in the world is debatable, any 2 people may express in different ways which may seem like opposite but the same 2 people may be trying to say the same views. I always advocate vegeterianism, but I don't oppose non-vegeterian. If we don't drink, doesn't mean we have to be against it. Also, I feel there is a thin line between nudity and intimacy.

Lastly, we should also respect the opposite opinions, listen to them and find answers to those, if not to the opposite person but may be to ourselves.

All this for you "Namma Bengalooru"

For the people who have been living in Bangalore for more than 4-5 years and didn't even put any effort to get their names registered in voter-list and vote, I have no words for them. They are shameless bunch of people, who have no rights to blame anyone if they dont' get good roads, electricity or any other civic amenities. They just want to think whole of India is theirs but when it comes to responsibility, they happily choose to back-out. I agree that you might not believe in this current Voting system, but understand that most of the youth educated people still don't vote. If you can't vote for somebody, atleast vote against. This will bring some fear in those politicians minds. Still hoping to see some changes in those so-called educated youth's acts and responsiblities towards India.
I wanted to end the post with the above lines, but I chose to write it at the top.

Last few weekends gone busy working with SmartVote and I appreciate hardwark and great effort put in by all the volunteers of SmartVote including me. :-)
All this for you "Namma Bengalooru". When you have some good cause associated with what you do, you like everything what you would have not liked in day-to-day routine, as door-to-door ringing the bell, talking the samething to all of them, tele-calling people etc.
BBMP elections are over, and there are discussions going on the same "Lower Voter Turnout". From last few weeks (weekends), I have been working with SmartVote in their drive to increase the voter-turnout, and encourage citizens to come out and vote, actually not only vote but vote for the right candidate. I as a part of SmartVote team, enjoyed every other work we did to make the whole of koramangala aware of elections, candidates and last but not the least is "To Vote".
This time SmartVote has concentrated on Koramangala (ward# 151) and did every effort to give comfort of Voting. Starting from the data-collection drive by the SmartVote volunteers from last 3-4 months, they did a awesome job of registering around 6k residents of koramangala in database. People have been informed, encouraged to search for their names and if not then get it added. Then a week before the elections, they have organized a candidates-debate in partnership with a independent and honest magazine "Citizen Matters". SmartVote volunteers have called people, texted them about the debates so that citizens can come and listen to their potential candidates. Also, candidates profiled being published and distributed in whole of koramangala. Finally before the Election-day, they setup a call-center to assist voters to find their names in the voter list all around the bangalore. Volunteers have called up all the people in the database in koramangala to remind of the election date and to vote. On the D-Day, Vote-Marshalling being done in koramangala door-to-door to say thanks if they have voted and if not then they are requested to go out and Vote.
In the whole of the process, I really enjoyed doing everything like door-to-door data collection, distributing candidates profile and inviting for debates going door-to-door in koramangala, then tele-calling koramangala citizens to remind them about election-day and requested them to vote. Vote-marshalling was also a good experience with Red FM covering a few bytes out of it.
Overall, people's responses were turned out be very good. Initially whenever we went to a door, they were reluctant to talk to us thinking salesman, and when they heard us fully, some complained us about the faults in voter-list, some said thanks and many others appreciated our effort and a larger percentage assured us that they will vote.
This time, I think its not citizens fault this time, probably the faulty voter list caused lower turnout, due to stale names present and valid names being deleted.

Busy Weekend with SmartVote and Loksatta

After a long time, I was so much busy on a weekend, that too in Bangalore :-)
Attended Dr. Meenakshi's Election Campaign Meeting at Sumir's house. Dr. Meenakshi is contesting at the Loksatta Ticket from ward# 35 Aramane Nagar.
I request all the readers of my blog to spread about Dr. Meenakshi and Loksatta whomever they know in Aramane Nagara.
Got to talk to her for quite a long time, and yes it is sure that if she gets it, she is gonna give the best of services to the ward.

Then, met there SmartVote's Sumir, and he asked me to campaign for SmartVote on Sunday Morning door-to-door and I agreed.
Sunday, 8:30 AM, behind Sukhsagar, and I was there. And then started door-to-door campaign. We went in pairs and covered one cross (a street) and spread the "To Vote" word door-to-door.
SmartVote has done a great job in making a database of Voters of Bangalore and created a very good search interface, where you can search your name based on your Name, a substring from the name, door-num or any field. We all know that there are lot of names mis-spelt, making it difficult to even search. SMART VOTE made it easy, just give it a try once. Choose your ward and search name, if not found, try with a part of your name.
SmartVote has gone a step further in this "To Vote" campaign. There is a debate organized on this Sunday, March 21st, 4:00 PM @ NGV Club, where all the contestants from the Koramangala ward# 151 will be coming and citizens can listen to them and ask questions. This would help them make a better choice among all the candidates.

It was quite a good experience, talking to people and spreading the importance of Vote.

Again, would like to request all of you to please VOTE, that's the only chance to intiate some change, the change you wish to see, yes stand-up, make a choice and VOTE. Your vote counts. A corporator choosen will be the one who is going to listen to your day-to-day issues and we all Bangaloreans will make sure that its well taken care. Yes, together we can, we will make a difference.

Don't Forget, March 28th, BBMP Elections, go and VOTE, and Make a difference.

Learn to queue up to become UK citizen, But what about an Indian becoming a good Indian Citizen?

Monday TOI - "Learn to queue up to become UK citizen".

Good initiative by London authorities, I wish Indian Government could also do something on the same lines to make our own people learn how to make a queue and be part of it.

From the news-article -
Paul Woolas, the immigration minister, said “The simple act of taking one’s turn is one of the things that holds our country together. It is very important that new comers take their place in queues whether it is for a bus or a cup of tea,” Woolas said.

If we Indians learn to form a queue or atleast if we learn to not to break a queue, many of our basic and fundamental problems will be solved easily.

If you didn't get this yet, think again.