tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220876282024-03-22T06:11:10.325+05:30Who is John Galt??Who are you to think you can change the world. You are not John Galt. You are nobody...मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-60793301210522226602012-01-30T00:22:00.004+05:302012-01-30T00:50:54.143+05:30Hi Calvin, I am Hobbes<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">I look around and find that I am not the only one. The Calvin loving Hobbes exploring generation, that I thought would outgrow its “childish” ways and matured into responsible individuals settled down into the respective places they have found for themselves as Cogs in the wheel of the society, is still all around me. Shifting in their chairs, kicking beneath their desks while typing away furiously and being productive without getting engaged /indulged in the work they do. They toss, twist and turn in their sleep every night for two thoughts keep pulling them in opposite directions. The need to satiate the child in them. And the laziness erupting from the thought of going back in the morning to the mundane routine of professional life. Every night when they sit on their bean bags with a scotch on rocks next to them and the PlayStation console in their hand they do recognize that these amenities for massaging the child ego in them come from the same jobs where they sit, kick, scream and “belong”. But how far would they go to belong is a question all these Calvins, riding the sleds of their childish egos, ask the Hobbes in them everyday. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">I was reading an article recently, sent to me by a dear friend of mine and a fellow Calvinite, where Calvin has grown up and has “belonged” but Hobbes is nowhere to be seen. The author has written this article as Calvin in first person and is talking about how he helps his kid find his Hobbes and in turn rediscovers the connections he had with his Hobbes earlier. The article made me wonder if its better to stay on, hold on, Velcro stick on to your Hobbes all through your life or to let go of it to ensure you fit, belong, mature, acquire responsibilities and then rediscover the Hobbes in you. The questions that grapple me in the second possibility are about the health of the relationship between you and your Hobbes after a really long gap. Just like two good friends who lose touch for a really long time and get together only to become better acquaintances. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Would you be able to communicate your deepest innermost thoughts with your Hobbes or merely be able to find a comforting fur belly to lie on. Not someone who can say, “Boy! And that has been fairly easy task for you” with a sarcasm when you say “I have been a good boy... all this morning”. To me the dichotomy is not so dichotomous in a flexible individual based TTMM society but fairly uphill a task in a society where the tightness of it all renders you helpless. And you begin to <strong>“BELONG”</strong>.</span></div>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-57411919898974491642011-04-29T09:11:00.001+05:302011-04-29T09:16:24.877+05:30वो जो मुझसे दूर हो गयी<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>HI</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:splitpgbreakandparamark/> <w:dontvertaligncellwithsp/> 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mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">सतरंगी परचम लहराती</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"> , </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">बादलों की ओट से</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; 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115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">सिर्फ़ एक सफ़ेद रेशमी दुपट्टा ओढ़े</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">मुझे ललचाती है</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">|<span lang="HI"></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">जो हर सुबह</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">अखबारी काला सफ़ेद पोंते</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">,</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">मेरे दरवाज़े पर दस्तक देती है</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">|<span lang="HI"></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">खोलते हीं गुम् हो जाना</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">मिचमिचाती आँखों के साथ</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">लुकाछिपी खेलती है</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">|<span lang="HI"></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri" lang="HI"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">वो खुशी आज सुबह</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">मेरे बिस्तर पर लेटी मुझे मिली</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">|<span lang="HI"></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">उठने के साथ चाय की प्याली देकर</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">,<span lang="HI"></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">झिलमिल सी आँखों में मुस्कान भर कर</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">नाश्ता बनाने किचन में चली गयी|</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">जिस खुशी ने मुझसे दूरी कर ली थी,</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">दिन भर मुझसे बतियानें बैठी|</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">बोली अब यहीं रहूँगी|</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">जब तक वो काले घनेरे बादल,</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="HI">फिर तुम्हारे अंदर से मुझे धकेल नहीं देते|</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"></span></span></p>मैं शायर 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mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The skeptic in me writes this,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Always the skeptic in me writes this,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">I hear my heart pounding,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Trying to ignore the creaking in my greys,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The skeptic in me types away.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">It makes so many attempts,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Emoting on paper, the rapid swims,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The perspiring tinges of rainbow,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Hoping for the glint<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The skeptic in me withers in words hopelessly.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Gleaming, the golden orb,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Sinking deep in the calluses,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Dark and dingy in the corners,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Shining in black grease,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The other part of me keeps surfacing,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">While the skeptic in me wordsmiths.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Honing all these thoughts, gargantuan in nature,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The ticking continues, ahoy ahoy up the sails,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Turning those wheels that direct,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Shining the curb I always bite,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The skeptic in me now strikes</span></p><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></div>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-6983204480118690732011-03-28T11:59:00.009+05:302011-04-21T23:08:08.020+05:30No Smoking - A review - Visited via The Fountainhead<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">No Smoking, for me is one of the finest Hindi films I have ever seen. Primarily because it has said things that I have been wanting to say all my life and it has, hence, made an impact on my life like no other. It has layers set so deep that they cut through your bones, only if you are willing expose your bones to it. At a superficial level it is a convoluted narrative, supposedly borrowed from Quitters Inc, about a guy’s struggle to quit smoking. With support from family, friends and finally Baba Bangali (Paresh Rawal in the role of the executioner played with chilling precision), the job becomes only difficult as the story progresses, before finally the protagonist collapses at the hands of a minor surgery. </span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">All this at a superficial level. Bubbling layers below is the story of our very own Howard Roark (K, played suitably by John Abraham) and his struggle against a system that would not let him be. The story of a person who struggles and finally is left with only the Peter Keating in him. Letting the Ellsworth Tooheys (Baba Bangali) of the world win and take control. I am not going to go into the narrative and the entire movie description but just give you snippets of how The Fountainhead of India succumbs to the Indian version of Toohey (Baba Bangali). </span></div><br /><br /><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="left"><a href="http://passionforcinema.com/?attachment_id=36073" rel="attachment wp-att-36073"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-36073" style="WIDTH: 305px; HEIGHT: 521px" height="722" alt="" src="http://passionforcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/nosmoking-2007-1b-1_1190885388.jpg" width="500" /></span></a></p><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Ayn Rand said, and I believe many others have as well, that Man’s greatest ability is the faculty of thinking. The power of his own mind. By corollary, his ability to take decisions and then follow them without regret. And decide without intervention from others. Without influence from others. The power to act upon his free will. K’s story is about the struggle between a society that wants to control and an individual that wishes to live and in order for him to live he relies on his free will. The act of smoking is an assertion of his independence not his interdependence. And therefore he is seen as being liberated from a suffocating water swamped bathtub every time he takes a drag. Where he can’t breathe and his smoke has this power of liberation for him. His cigarettes help him swim and then breakthrough to the other side. Remember how others also CAME OUT from closed cupboards, from under the table and other traps. And when he does not get his cigarettes, to act on his free will, he gets trapped, becomes un-confident and becomes part of a world where everyone is an enemy. </span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Till the end his struggle is to live his life based on this motto, to follow through with his decisions and his struggle against a system that cannot allow him as it is a risk for that system. That would forcibly want to change him and take control of him to make him part of itself. Forcing others to submit to the demands of a power forces all to submit. A dictator that is so omnipresent it moves about like a ghost (like a green film), a contamination that promises to engulf all. The movie does not choose to depict one person as the antagonist, though there are times when Baba Ellsworth does command the screen with his madness, it’s a collective that attacks K. That threatens to consume him and no matter where he hides he can’t escape. </span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">The society / system / Toohey / Bangali find ways to punish him and coerce him. If he does not relent they make him deaf, he persists and they kill his brother, he does not desist and they destroy his wife. Until finally he gives up and turns into Peter Keating, a spineless worm who merely dwells in the society and finally leeches off them leaving behind his Howard Roark / soul behind the glass door feeling dejected and defeated. And not able to communicate. </span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Some thematic / story specific observations: </span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">1. AK has used green as a color to show contamination of the society and the soul </span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">2. The green ghost is the all pervading dictator trying to control the world </span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">3. The dual personality of various characters is a primary theme. K behind the glass and staring at himself. Anjali the wife (who wishes to mould him into her world) and the secretary (who is willing to do anything for him), Jesse Randhawa song which is sung by Adnan Sami (a man singing for a woman) and finally Baba Bangali and the doctor (btw Jab bhi cigarette jalti hai is one the most erotic songs I have seen / heard)</span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><a href="http://passionforcinema.com/?attachment_id=36076" rel="attachment wp-att-36076"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-36076" height="200" alt="" src="http://passionforcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20070929-194100-1_1191076212_large2.jpg" width="180" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"> </span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">4. AK probably had to dumb down the film a bit to show that there is always someone watching you. The Ram aur Shyam bit in the lift </span></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">5. How life does give you the opportunity to take back what you lost but you fight it so that you don’t risk what you have. The scene where Alex (Joy Fernandes) forces him to smoke a cigar This film is not about cigarettes, it’s about a man losing the connection with his soul, his conscience, his mind and losing his ability to communicate with his inner voice. </span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Thank You AK </span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">p.s: do visit </span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><a href="http://devilreincarnate.blogspot.com/2009/02/counter-suggestion.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">http://devilreincarnate.blogspot.com/2009/02/counter-suggestion.html</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"> </span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">for another article on No Smoking</span></div>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-38830924454055459412010-08-24T00:50:00.001+05:302010-08-24T00:52:18.120+05:30Apocalypse Now - A Review<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Hi Readers,</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Another review i wrote for passion for cinema has been published. Please visit the same and update any comments that you might have. Join the discussion.</span><br /><a href="http://passionforcinema.com/apocalypse-here-and-now/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">http://passionforcinema.com/apocalypse-here-and-now/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Regards,</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Abhinav</span>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-30267350352864116322010-08-17T20:00:00.000+05:302010-08-17T20:01:40.777+05:30Lost and Found<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">You are lost, feeling your wounds with your fingers, stabbing and jabbing, running through them, feeling your blood between your fingers, like oil slick, you know the smell, you know the grimy texture, you sniff and almost cough up more of it through your stomach. The process of self discovery, exploration, all the signs of what an infant feels and absorbs. The symptoms of being in a world where suddenly everything is a variable. The child grows up and while growing up continues to explore. As his body and mind permit him. His limbs move about and find those awkward protrusions, the invariably present cavities, the excrement and the process of self discovery continues.<br /><br />You step into a temple seeking another meaning and find it teeming with a bevy of people. People who are so lost they don’t even know that there is a process of self exploration. The bells jar your ears and you shift heavily. The stomach churning vehemently. No medicine in sight. You feel your life seeping through your fingers and giving way to contamination. You shift heavily on your feet and end up on the bed. Few rapid breaths later, you untangle yourself, jolted from the reverie, the sweet intoxicant of the perfume haunting your thoughts till the next night and stumble out of the promise of self discovery onto the streets of being lost. The journey continues.<br /><br />You travel miles and let the butterflies fluttering in your stomach take control, cling to the conical heads of your ears, lifting you in the air. Flailing, flickering, kicking your legs about, you circle the horizons and land on your haunches, crashing, bleeding to death. Passing through all the flashes of monstrosity meted out since conception. The pain of being, the pain of seeing, THE PAIN…..<br /><br />All the images imprinted on your mind, you find the meaning. That there is no meaning. You walk back holding gathered, close to your heart, the remains of what was, the evidence of a journey made, and submit the YOU to the finality of being YOU. Nothing changed paths, but none stood still. You come a full circle, womb to womb.<br /><br />TRAPPED BETWEEN THE WALLS OF THE LONG ALLEYWAY TO PLEASURE.</span></div>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-11610105673397764082010-08-02T17:17:00.004+05:302010-08-24T01:00:23.335+05:30My Impression of the movie "A Clockwork Orange"<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Hi Everyone,<br /><br />I have written an account of my impression of the Stanley Kubrik movie "A Clockwork Orange" on a premier movie portal passionforcinema.com. Please visit the link given below and follow the discussions:<br /></span><a href="http://passionforcinema.com/a-clockwork-orange-a-review/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">http://passionforcinema.com/a-clockwork-orange-a-review/</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"><br /><br />Regards,<br />Abhinav</span>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-42569803731320395672009-12-12T04:18:00.002+05:302009-12-12T04:23:18.038+05:30Paint it...<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">I itch all over,</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">stains of blood hardened on the skin;</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Blue black, frenzy of colours.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">I bleed all over,</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">frozen veins exploding;</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Tattered patterns of hope.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">I have wounds of the soul,</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">transcending all creation;</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Smeared hopes of attainment.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">The garb pretends,</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">it tends to expand all in vain;</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Dots mere on the canvas.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">I play hither tither,</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">sheltered in my being me;</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Fudged reflection in the mirror.....</span>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-13628355569389583492009-06-13T00:10:00.009+05:302010-08-24T05:03:47.060+05:30Random Ramblings - A collection of my dreams/nightmares<div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#ffffff;">This is random rambling. In fact the random is rambling. Why do I feel my head reeling at the speed of light when all around me everything moves in slow motion, I feel nauseous, hideous, completely torn apart with merely flashes of energy sustaining me through the day? The moment passes into hours to be swept in a sea of thoughts leaving me exhausted and drained. I manage to wake up in the morning, with the reluctance of a kid on school day, but unlike the kid who is also reluctant to come back from school, not wanting to separate from the friends, I rush home. Not having anything worth breathing for is worth living for.<br /><br />I have to decipher and understand the meaning that is hovering around and still not knocking loud enough or not knocking at all. My veins, turning blue, red, purple, yellow, and green, hardly managing to pump anything but fluid of poisonous nature, are just like the dark falling bark pieces from a rusty old tree, looking to be detonated, exploded, compounded, and shredded to pieces just so that existence will be of different nature and most importantly in different form. Not having anything worth breathing for is worth living for.<br /><br />The body is exposed to miniscule explosions of chilling nature, the impact being as though you are burnt with Ice. It’s a difficult feeling to explain just doesn’t fit into any metaphors. You breathe and then find that the lungs refuse to inflate or even deflate. They stick to your rib cage and flap about in a desperate attempt to become independent of you just so that they can fly. You are caught in the turmoil of dizzying forces, as though all matter inside has collapsed to form a solid ball which is semi fluid in nature. Green in color, contaminating and disintegrating at the same time, enough to make you cough and vomit and ensure that the more you vomit it out the more it grows in size. Not having anything worth breathing for is worth living for.<br /><br />You knock a few cans around and find swept in the nature of the intoxicant itself, pure, senile (it’s an attribute of old/age), degenerating and rejuvenating. You try various colors on only to see which fits, leads to redemption and then you drown yourself in the color. You become the color itself. First blue, as pure bliss, ABHAAMAAN, then red angry and mocking the rest, then purple, turning inward with shame and fear, unable to grapple with reality, yellow with fever trying to shake off the sickening dogs wagging it’s tail forever at you, and then finally green (completely contaminated) marking various shades of jealousy (all the seven sins amalgamated) only to leave you with a feeling of being licked by a rabid dog who has seen and smelt the fear in you, the vomit on you. You try to find and then know that not having anything worth breathing for is WORTH LIVING FOR!!!<br /><br />You are running at feverish pace, perspiring, perplexed at the reason and still not able to understand it fully. You tie a knot around your waist, just to brace yourself for the situation, and then rush headlong into Vortex*, spiraling ahead, just ahead to glimpse your future and then recoil at the sight of the dripping, slime covered, green creature that you have become, blotches of sun forming their mark on the face, bathing in your own sweat, swearing loudly and lamenting at the obfuscation around, all pervading darkness and still everything so clear. You try to clear the fog and then know that not having anything worth breathing for is WORTH LIVING FOR!!!<br /><br /> *(Ashok Banker – Thanks)</span></div>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-42040290122705069132009-05-13T13:02:00.003+05:302009-05-13T13:07:01.071+05:30Fair & Lovely<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"> </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Leaving behind a healthy household (it was health & hygienic from my comfort point of view and I can see Gols, Murs and Govi grinning from ear to ear reading this), a lavish lifestyle, and a comfortable city for all purposes, I have shifted to Chennai. Pune is the city that I will always remember for giving birth to who I am today. Pune gave me a second life. But coming to Chennai, despite mixed reactions from my friends and family, I am confounded by a myriad of feelings. I am confident to do something new, I am apprehensive about the weather and all the new people (anyone who knows me, knows well enough that I do not like new people, be it Tamizhs or Biharis), I am ready to explore and find newer avenues, some which I might not have found in Pune, and above all I have the desire the excel at my work. It’s a challenge I am willing to accept and overcome.<br /><br />But all this is a part of a long list that will take time for completion. I would, for now, settle down to observations and one of the curious things I observed was the Fair and Lovely phenomenon. I have had in my life the pleasure of interacting with a few unique people and observe from close quarters their personal grooming process. A lot of the middle class young men (I am stating this at the risk of generalizing) seem to be pre-occupied with two things. The hair, the length of it and the gloss of it and the skin the gloss of it and the fairness of it. A comb in the pocket and a tube of Fair & Lovely on the dressing table. I have seen similar skin tone in South Africa and found that among the “blacks” an amazing sense of pride in their skin color exists. I saw a hoarding advertising for a product called “Dark & Lovely”. This to me sums up the entire colour skin debate sparked off a few hundred years ago. While the most oppressed in the matter have moved on and started taking pride in their skin tone as a sign of struggle and liberation, some here have bought into the advertising imperialism / colonization and have become rampant consumers of a product whose results are at best unfounded and imaginary.<br /><br />To me the most surprising is the fact that those who can afford this product are educated young men!! The drivers for consumption of this product could be many viz. getting a fair girl for marriage, attaining a supposed social norm. I might never be able to find the underlying cause, but one thing I do know that trying to change who we are in order to attain what is socially acceptable is not just trying to lie to oneself but also a small step towards a Unitarian society, where independent thoughts and new ideas seize to exist. Once that happens, we would be mere puppets in the hands of the nefarious social engineers. Like a herd of sheep being led by the mountain goat. </span></div>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-91522529468348431182009-02-11T13:01:00.003+05:302009-02-25T10:41:13.494+05:30A Counter Suggestion/ No Smoking - A Review<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Going back to originality. Its an assertion of your independence.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Your basic character, your soul, your reason for existence aches for independence, it aches to free itself from the clutches of bondage, of interdependence, of LOVE. Reading through an article, which was reviewing a movie, the author suggested that one should fall in love to understand the beauty of interdependence, of making decisions to live in a world which is better for you.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">I counter-suggest!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Fall out of love once to experience what it means for your pensive, aching soul. How the energy sapped being released from the prison of interdependence, of making decisions, for a seemingly better future, rooted in compromises, suddenly bears its grinning and independent, Howard Roarkish face. So astute, orange hair flowing in breezy weather, resolved to make something happen or not be active at all. To angrily mock the rest of the world at their fucking ignorance, feigning surprise at mere hints of revelations.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Fine, when YOU surface, YOU are weather beaten, unable to stand on your legs for lack to interdependence, YOU find YOURSELF stuck in corners, standing at the traffic signal unable to comprehend that very familiar path walked often. YOU reach inside to the guttural corners of the body and scream out the Rock version of Emotional Atyaachaar, drowning every pore of your body in the misery pervading all around ready to destroy and get consumed wholly by lack of interdependence.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Then it hits YOU in the face. The mind numbing voice which screams and calls for help. YOU climb out spitting pieces of the anti-jaunt YOU had last night. Listen to the voice and steady yourself to walk again. YOU look at the clear path and become responsible for your actions, YOU don't have the option of blaming someone else. Of saying “It was our decision.” YOU go to the quarry or start architecting, either cases YOU breath/smoke and don't irk anyone else.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Originality, the finer victim of the grand dance of interdependence, is allowed to breed and more importantly produce results, some tragic and some grander, in all, all decisions for which the price is nothing but the liberation. The society can scoff at the results and the image in the mirror grows proud every moment for all YOU have done for YOURSELF. They dart when results are favourable and point when not so aphrodisiac-al. YOU choose to ignore and acquire for yourself.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Isn't that the aim of most religions – self actualisation!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">So fall out of love, get liberated, become original, and self actualise. MASSAGE THE EGO.<br /></span></div>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-35647626616080066542009-01-27T21:26:00.004+05:302009-01-27T21:44:31.153+05:30Happy New Year<span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">I am not one for New Year Resolutions. They are like a prostitute's promise of virginity. They last only for a night. With a tinge of blood spilled, all innocence is lost and all promises are forgotten. You move on, the virgin moves on and, hanging in mid-air, remains, the promise of virginity. Despite all this, I have made a few Old Year resolutions (they were made throughout the year of 2008) and like the lover, estranged, comes to the bed next night, seeking virgin promise. I have come back to fulfill a few of mine to keep the momentum of breathing going. Here is a list of the promises I made to myself and known only to me are the ones on the road of fulfillment :-)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span></div><ol style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Learn to Play guitar</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Get a tattoo</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Learn Boxing</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Climb a few more mountains</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Watch all the kind of movies I like to watch</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Watch as many plays, go to as many concerts so on and on</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Travel extensively -<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">take a 3-4 day trip once every 2-3 months</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Have a month long holiday every year for traveling<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Trek as often as possible</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Photograph extensively</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">UPDATE THE BLOG REGULARLY</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">................</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">.......................</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">.............................</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">................................</span></li></ol><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=";font-size:85%;" > nth. Make a movie</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-size:85%;" >Here is to never losing our virginity.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span></div>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-52893150311330595432009-01-27T21:11:00.004+05:302009-01-27T21:45:09.326+05:30I Make A Promise<span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br />I make a promise;<br />When tears fall<br />& roll down the cheeks.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >I make a promise;<br />When moonlight flickers<br />gently caressing green leaves.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >I make a promise;<br />When muscles twitch involuntarily<br />going into spasm.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >I make a promise;<br />When from the corner of my eyes<br />I see hope clad in black.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >I make a promise;<br />Rocking slowly in the balcony<br />night breeze promising to carry me over.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >I make a promise;<br />When I close my eyes, see you<br />& remember me making a promise.<br /><br /></span>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-23875638166468707542009-01-15T12:13:00.007+05:302009-01-27T21:47:02.242+05:30Pune International Film Festival - 2009<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Its over, and just like all times its leaves me gloomy as the days of sensibilities are over and now no more do I have the luxury of returning to the celluloid and soaking a wealth of information, emotion and forms of depiction. I have been a regular at the PIFF since I came to Pune in 2004 attending by now over hundred movies, some so moving the memory still remains and some so weird I am still trying to defragment the meaning after so many years.<br /><br />There have been times when I have stood spellbound in the hall well after the projector has stopped twittering and there have been those occasions when I have left in a hurry purely to avoid the felling of nausea. The Pune International Film Festival, organised every year in the month of January, has brought to me a better understanding of the world. Indian films, and by that I mean the Hindi film industry, with its dance around the tree or dance in the cloud or dance in the valley of flowers, hero saves the day, beats up all the bad guys, rosy flavoured all happy ending and they lived happily ever after, is purely a walk in the paradise and definitely a make believe world. While cinema like that has its place purely for entertainment value, I have always felt that cinema that does not say anything comes from a person who does not wish to say anything or has nothing to say at all. Love is an emotion in Hindi films that has been so vastly abused that it has become overrated. It has lost all its meaning amidst the beautiful locales and enchanted forests. Expressions have become borrowed and that too from formulaic successful mainstream films.<br /><br />Amidst all this comes PIFF to bring in fresh modes of expression, fresher dramas and above all stories that are complete in terms of human expression and human behaviour, not merely a slice of a human being. These stories look complete in many respects and depict the way a human being behaves rather how a super-hero reacts. There has been the real life depiction of the Italian mafia father who commits suicide after knowing his son is a cop and is disappointed at the way his father had abandoned him when he was a kid. The chemistry between the cop and felon is so palpable that you almost feel like reaching out and caressing the teary eyed cop when he first confronts his father (Salty Air).<br /><br />There has been the depiction of the rebellious 37 year old protagonist and 21 year girl in a Turkish community in Germany who decide to marry each other to get away from the repressive and tradition rich family of the girl to merely live out as roommates, who continue to experiment and explore with the world around them with drugs, alcohol, sex, tattoos and body piercing (all forms of expressing their angst at the primarily dogmatic society), until the world comes crashing down on one night of drunken, jealousy driven murder of one of the lovers of the girl. Driven away from the stigma of the stories in the newspapers the girl goes away to Turkey and the guy gets imprisoned. Turkey again is no easy dwelling for Sibet who gets frustrated with the tied down life only to end up on the streets of Turkey, raped and beaten nearly to death. You cry and feel like burning up the world when you see how this world treats people who just wish to live their own life without following traditions. Cahit comes to Turkey after his release from the jail to find Sibet happily married with a kid and gives up all hope of finding his one true love to go to his ancestral village to settle down (Head On).<br /><br />There is the depiction of Gulnabi in a village in Karnataka, which has not known any kind of communal tension until a Hindu village damsel decides to run away with a Muslim. Gulnabi (Gulabi as she is known throughout the village) owns a television set and runs a theatre called Gulabi talkies to which everyone flocks for watching movies. After the eloping incidence, Gulabi who was not directly involved in the incidence has to leave the village along with other Muslims leaving the Television set behind for the village to enjoy (Gulabi Talkies).<br /><br />There is the graphic novel animated screen adaptation of Persopolis, showing a girl growing up in the oppressive regime of Iran only to be taken over by a more oppressive revolutionaries who frown upon the idea of a woman not wearing a headsarf and her burqua and how she find the true meaning of her roots when she goes to Europe to study. Its her trails and tribulations but mainly of an advancing economy suddenly stopped in its track by archaic concepts of a state, where expression of oneself has no place amidst laws of modesty and proper behaviour. Where a girl running on the road is asked to stop and walk slowly as the movement of her hips is considered immodest and distraction for the men around her (Persopolis).<br /><br />There is the beautiful love story, which brings to screen the torrid love affair that begins with a one night stand between a French woman and a Japanese man in post WW2 Hiroshima and how all adversities (purely of their emotions and their past) do not stand in their way of finally uniting and deciding to stay together (Hiroshima, My love).<br /><br />I will miss what I did not get to see,<br />I will savour what my eyes could feast,<br />And I will wait till next January.<br /></span></div>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-22698570024166344402008-12-28T17:31:00.002+05:302008-12-28T18:04:36.702+05:30मेरा शून्य !!<span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">कुछ</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">चिढ़ता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">चिल्लाता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">डरता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">घबराता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">;</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">बढ़ता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">है</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">वीरानो</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">का</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सन्नाटा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">देख</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">मुझे</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">वीराना</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">।</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">कभी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">हँसी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">खुशी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">में</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ढल</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">जाता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">साँसों</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">में</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">मेरी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">गल</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">जाता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">;</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">पर</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">बढ़ता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">है</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">अविरल</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">चलता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">देख</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">मुझे</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">दीवाना</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">।</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">हाथों</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">को</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">मेरे</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">थामे</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">नदियों</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">और</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">पहाडों</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">पर</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">;</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">रुकता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">और</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">थकता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">पर</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">देख</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">मुझे</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">हीं</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">बढ़ता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">था</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">।</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">जिव्हा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">पर</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">एक</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">जबानी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">साँसों</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">में</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">छिपता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">पानी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">;</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">गीतों</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">में</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">मेरी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">हीं</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">कहानी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">वीरानो</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">का</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">जो</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सानी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">था</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">।</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">अब</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">तो</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">अथाह</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">में</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">भी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">मीठापन</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">नीले</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">में</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">भरता</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सादापन</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">;</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">पर</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">दामन</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">थाम</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">के</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">घूम</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">रहा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">मेरा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">अब</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">भी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">मेरा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सूनापन</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">।</span></span><br /><br /></div>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-39946159811816219762008-12-26T20:11:00.003+05:302008-12-26T20:21:49.023+05:30तीन दिन<span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">दो</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">थपके</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">हों</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">या</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">चार</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सही</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">मिट्टी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">से</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">निकले</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">आग</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">कहीं</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">?</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">ठोका</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">थपका</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">पानी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">से</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सींचा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">दो</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">चार</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ने</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">खड़े</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">हो</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">प्यार</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">से</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">पुछा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">।</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">सूखी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">मिट्टी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">थी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">मुरझाई</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">पानी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">के</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">करुणा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">से</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सकुचाई</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">;</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">कंकड़</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">पत्थर</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">की</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">वर्षा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">होती</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">सुबह</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">की</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ओस</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">से</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">वंचित</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">थी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">।</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">नए</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सृजन</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">की</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">आवाज़</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">उठी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">थी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">बाहों</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">में</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">भरकर</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">धुप</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">खिली</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">थी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">;</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">आटे</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">से</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">उठकर</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">चोकर</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">में</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">मिली</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">थी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">चाकों</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">की</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">बाटों</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">से</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">पिसकर</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">बनी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">थी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">।</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">हल्की </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">बारिश</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">की</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">बूंदों</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ने</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">जिव्हा</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">पर</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">लालच</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">की</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">मिसरी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">धरी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">थी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">;</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">हाथों</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">में</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">भरकर</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सुविनय</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">का</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">प्याला</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">मिट्टी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">के</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">होंठों</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">पर</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">रख</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">सी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">दी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">थी</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">।</span><br /></span>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-50690675101130308732008-12-26T18:58:00.003+05:302008-12-26T19:52:09.413+05:30मैं!!<span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >प्रकृति</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >के</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >नियमों</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >को</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >चीरती</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">,</span><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >भेदती</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">एक</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >असामान्य</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">असाधारण</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">उलझन</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">काटने</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">कचोटने</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">नोंच</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">खाने</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">आती</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">है</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">।</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">क्या</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">असामान्य</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">हीं</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">होना</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">मेरी</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">परिभाषाओं</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">को</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">सार्थक</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">और</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">परिपक्व</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">बनाती</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">है</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">?</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">या</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">मुझे</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">असमय</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">सागर</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">में</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">डुबोने</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">का</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">प्रयास</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">क्रियाओं</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">में</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">संलग्न</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">जीव</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">हर</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">जीव</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">अपनी</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">परिभाषाओं</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">हीं</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">को</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">तो</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">सार्थक</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">और</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">शब्दित</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">करने</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">में</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">लगा</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">है</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">।</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">फिर</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">मैं</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">हीं</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">असामान्य</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">क्यों</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">तर्क</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">से</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">इसे</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">खंडित</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">करने</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">पर</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">हर</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">जीव</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">असामान्य</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">और</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">असाधारण</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">सी</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">हीं</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">तो</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">यात्रा</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">करता</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">।</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">कुपित</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">कुंठित</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">फिर</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">यहीं</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">यह</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">अग्नि</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">क्यों</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">इसकी</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">ज्वालाएं</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">शरीर</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">के</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">हर</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">अंग</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">को</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">झुलसा</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">तपा</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">देती</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">हैं</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">।</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">शायद,</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">सुना</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">है</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">सोना</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">भी</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">कुछ</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">इसी</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">प्रकार</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">तैयार</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">होता</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">है</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">।</span><br /></span>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-21961067166767242262008-12-26T18:56:00.000+05:302008-12-26T18:57:33.232+05:30क्या वो आई थी?<span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br /><span>किसको</span> <span>लगता</span> <span>है</span> <span>यहाँ</span> <span>वो</span> <span>आई</span> <span>थी</span>,<br /><span>झाँका</span> <span>था</span>, <span>पलकें</span> <span>झपकाईं</span> <span>थी</span>;<br /><span>साँसों</span> <span>से</span> <span>सदियाँ</span> <span>महकाई</span> <span>थी</span>,<br /><span>किसने</span> <span>कहा</span> <span>वो</span> <span>आई</span> <span>थी</span><span>।</span><br /><br /><span>कभी</span> <span>कंगन</span> <span>की</span> <span>आवाजें</span> <span>हैं</span>,<br /><span>पायल</span> <span>भी</span> <span>झनकाती</span> <span>है</span>;<br /><span>पर</span> <span>किसके</span> <span>कहने</span> <span>पर</span> <span>आई</span> <span>थी</span>,<br /><span>और</span> <span>किसको</span> <span>लगता</span> <span>है</span> <span>वो</span> <span>आई</span> <span>थी</span><span>।</span><br /><br /><span>जब</span> <span>घूमा</span> <span>करते</span> <span>थे</span> <span>अंधियारों</span> <span>में</span>,<br /><span>कानों</span> <span>के</span> <span>झुमके</span> <span>सुन</span> <span>सुन</span> <span>कर</span>;<br /><span>जब</span> <span>लगता</span> <span>था</span> <span>वो</span> <span>आई</span> <span>है</span>,<br /><span>कब</span> <span>लगता</span> <span>था</span> <span>वो</span> <span>आई</span> <span>है</span><span>।</span><br /><br /><span>हाथों</span> <span>की</span> <span>खुशबू</span> <span>बहकाती</span> <span>थी</span>,<br /><span>चेहरे</span> <span>पर</span> <span>हँसी</span> <span>खिल</span> <span>जाती</span> <span>थी</span>;<br /><span>पर</span> <span>कबसे</span> <span>पूछता</span> <span>घूम</span> <span>रहा</span>,<br /><span>क्या</span> <span>किसी</span> <span>ने</span> <span>उसे</span> <span>देखा</span> <span>जब</span> <span>वो</span> <span>आई</span> <span>थी</span>?</span>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-71829263135579307582008-12-25T11:16:00.001+05:302008-12-25T11:17:32.773+05:30One got left behind, or did he??<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span> </p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">“This is my dream, this is my nightmare,” said the guide who took us camping to the Black and White desert in Egypt. Mine was a 9 day visit to the land of Pharaohs in the month of April, when my Bhaiya and Bhabhi called me to Cairo. I travelled via Nairobi and landed at the Cairo airport in the night. Two of my Brother’s friends were joining us from US of A and then the 3 of us were to proceed to Luxar. The mysticism wrapped pyramids and sphinxes open their arms wide to welcome us in Giza. The sheer magnitude of the structures makes me understand why it is called a wonder of the world. Enthralled by the magnificence and captivated by the sense of smallness I travelled through the sand and got lost in the history. The tales of the Pharaohs, their wars and primarily their belief in the afterlife and all the paraphernalia created around it which pretty much is THE MYSTIC of AGYPTEN. Fascinated as I always was with the splendour this kingdom once was I got drawn in tooth, nail and hair into it all. The visit of Citadel which remains till dare as a reminder of all the invasions Egypt has seen and all the conquerors trying to establish their supremacy.<br /><br />But at the end of it all the most poignant experience that remained with me was that of Rashid, our guide at the camp in Black and White desert. It is called so because the sea once extended well inside what is today mainland of Egypt. There were under water volcanoes that erupted and resulted in mountains of black stones and limestone. The sea retreated leaving behind these mountains and stones. Rashid remained with us once we reached the village nearest to the campsite. Scruffily dressed in half sleeve shirt, Jeans and a sleeveless camping jacket he appeared a contradiction from the beginning, more out of place than anyone else around and still more in tune with his surroundings than even the palm trees. He remained quite for most part of the trip speaking only when spoken to. After remaining quite for most part myself, trying to soak in all, I settled next to his fire illuminated face in the night and asked him his story.<br /><br />After a little probing I discovered that he has an engineering degree from the top most college in Egypt and after working for six month returned back to his village. He said he could not take the moronic and fast paced life of Cairo. He came back to his village as he could not think of life without it. After a point he started working as a camp guide to earn some money. “There is not enough of it, but I like staying in the desert, sitting in the sand. This is my dream, this is my nightmare.” With the campfire illuminating his bearded face, pale brown eyes catching the fire dance, smoke of cigarette escaping his tobacco stained mouth, he looked more content than even the Dalai Lama. He touched a chord in my heart which pulls me now to go back to Egypt again and experience it all over again.</span></p>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-50218086725809328722008-12-25T09:45:00.004+05:302008-12-25T10:32:31.251+05:30PMji ki Amethi<p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span> </p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">I am travelling like the wind god, <em>Pavan</em>, through the deforested terrains of U.P. Taking the <em>Janata</em> Express from <em>Benares</em> to <em>Ramanagar</em>, the aim is to travel to tiger country. I am as ill equipped as they come, grossly misjudging the weather, the National Park and the train journey itself. I intended to take trains throughout this trip as a means to tear through and introspect. I am constantly reminded of Mr. M.K. Gandhi's train journey before he chose to resume his political career in India. Small grain of salt, though I am, I challenge none around and only myself to carry on unfettered and package home a wider understanding of life itself. Some would argue that life was right where I left it on 2nd Nov but there is no harm in evolving or looking out the window, at the terrain de-evolving.<br /><br />The train has picked up and started rolling its ball bearings at 11.55 from Benares and in the typical frustration that plagues Indian Railway's patrons I was unable to find my coach to begin with. Nothing is marked and no official about to guide. In the typical Babudom drudgery of India one of them responds <em>"arre kissi mein bhi baith jaiye na."</em> “Just grab a seat in any one of the coaches. When the TC comes he will direct you to your seat.” Hissing loudly, I storm out of the baggage coach and decide to stroll till the end of the platform and <em>Eureka</em> I find S-8 at the fag end of the train loudly proclaiming the reservation chart with my name on it. I climb aboard and find my berth. Prostrating on it I vent my anger and then snooze for a bit. Waking up I find the train tearing through the <em>Ganga</em> basin and one of the most fertile regions in India. Not much has changed. For those who can afford it, the mud houses have changed to brick ones and nothing around has evolved in terms of infrastructure.<br /><br />I wonder if these people don't have voting rights or if they choose their representatives for promises of simple things like electricity and road which seems absent all around. The train stops at the famed <em>Amethi</em> railway station. I look in amazement and disbelief at a small and insignificant looking village, which but for its name would have gone unnoticed. The <em>Lok Sabha</em> constituency has voted in 3 Prime Ministers, if you include Sonia Gandhi the ruling party's leader as one. I smile wryly, shrug off my disbelief and think if only they were remotely interested in public welfare.</span></p>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-31205191976564810902008-12-22T21:22:00.003+05:302008-12-24T12:12:09.940+05:3010th Nov, 2008 - A date is Definitive<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I don’t know what to call this, may be my travelogue or just a collection of my random thoughts. Whichever way it gets described it has begun. I have started gathering mass and now rolling slowly and building momentum. What percolates down 84 layers of skin transcends to heaven when all ceases to exist. It vibrates and gives vent to all energy. It gets violated when I get pushed around, it loses hope when a vein is severed, it mocks me when wet cheeks surface from the corner of darkness, it reminds me that I can cause pain and only I can love. I am told I need to nurture and care, for when all ceases to exist and only I will remain. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">All enveloped in ash and soot burning fire upon the mortals of the realm only I will be dancing atop the corpses. I will look beyond the hills, un-focus myself and get ready to drown all in my glory, then the mother beckons from downhill, calling her flesh to come home, get enjoined at the hips and breathe my last, silence till the end…..</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-15599491414505867302008-12-20T15:45:00.003+05:302008-12-22T11:30:53.811+05:30Holy Shit<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">One trip to the holy city of </span></span><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Benares</span></span></i></st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, the city of temples, of shrines, of red </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">tikas</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, of saffron clothes, </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of shikha</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> clad men and ochre sporting women & you are confounded by myriad of thoughts. There is the common, everyday, middleclass man/woman, like my mother is, who starts his day by visiting a few temples of his deity/ies and bathing in the </span></span><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ganges</span></span></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Clad in minimal clothing, as befits a temple visit, these early rising denizens of a city that dwells on </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lord Shiva’s</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> trident, make this not a religion but a way of life. This is as much a part of their routine as bathing or eating everyday is. I am calling this a way of life because there is usually nothing transactional (overtly) in the relationship. It is a way to deconstruct the road to peace and well being.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And on the other hand is the curious, SLR carrying, shorts clad, hat sporting, white skinned tourist who dwells and contemplates this way of life. He has his own methods for deconstructing the road to peace. He is more explorative than ritualistic. He is more curious as he doesn’t understand it and drawn in as his own world is moving rapidly away from belief systems. Away from him and towards individualism. Both these polarised worlds clash firmly in </span></span><st1:place st="on"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Benares</span></span></i></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and produce a wilting of the slits and reverberating, settle down, in the clanking of the temple bells.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I look to these worlds with as much curiosity as familiarity, as much belief as questions, as much joy & love as hatred and ask myself seldom and often if I can belong to either or both.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-26832326268254741892008-12-20T15:42:00.001+05:302008-12-22T11:31:55.939+05:30Frenzy<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Brains on the wall,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Blood on the floor;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mud all around me,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Nothing but a whore;</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-66119975811016774272008-12-20T14:59:00.007+05:302008-12-22T21:26:55.601+05:30You might be Mumbaikar, I am a Bombayite<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I keep coming back. I have to. I still come, stare wide eyed, get plunged into the crowd and slowly retreat back to whence I came. I came this time around, got swarmed again and took that eternal lifeline from Marine Lines to </span></span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Goregaon</span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. This must have been the last local to </span></span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Virar</span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> – the 12:25 for </span></span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Virar</span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, for it was crowded. I have travelled all my growing years on this electric lifeline of BOMBAY, have been used to bringing other people’s sweat, on my shirt, home; reach deep in the light of my soul – closing my eyes – when all around me were people, their chattering and an all pervading darkness. I have grown resilient to a lot in my life travelling on this </span></span></span></span><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bombay</span></span></span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> bullock cart, carrying all life alike, not discriminating, not caring, relentless, purposeful, hopeful – chugging away with mind numbing efficiency. </span></span></span></span><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bombay</span></span></span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and its lifeline have MADE me.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I sat clutching onto my backpack, trying to stare out casually. There was plenty of import in the backpack and it made my pulse go faster, my heart more nervous. I purposefully glanced around trying to take stock, create semantics for all that was around and give labels. There was a group of 6-8 Muslims, clad in white </span></span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">kurtas</span></span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and </span></span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">payjamas</span></span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, skull cap about, black marks on the forehead. They looked as devout as a monkey intent on grabbing a sweet out of your hand. They were discussing religion. The lump in my throat bobbed up and down. At the next station 3-4 Hindus, devout as the Muslims, the saffron mark on the forehead, long hair and the look of resolute dedication, the monkey again, climbed aboard and stood near the gate. The lump expanded and threatened to squeeze my heart.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Two stations later at </span></span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mahalaxmi</span></span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, a group of people, from their conversation they sounded the filmy types, the labourers of the film fraternity, got on the train and sat around me. And now it was getting difficult to breath. I looked around feeling suffocated, eyes growing dim and weary because of the effort. I was just trying to calm my senses and breathe normal, trying not to draw any attention to myself, when at </span></span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Andheri </span></span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">station 5 young kids, possibly engineering 1</span></span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">st</span></span></span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> year students, speaking Marathi entered the wagon. </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The North Indian in me (for that’s what I am to them) shuddered. Looking at the Muslims the Hindu in me winced, looking at the </span></span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tika </span></span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">clad men the peacekeeper in me held its breath and looking at the labourers the middle classer heart pumped more blood. I grabbed my backpack, hurriedly left the WINDOW SEAT, looked around, trying myself not to look suspicious and waited eagerly to jump out of the train </span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">at</span></span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Goregaon</span></span></span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Hurriedly climbing up the FOB I went across to </span></span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Goregaon (E),</span></span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> sat in the auto and heaved a sigh of relief.</span></span></span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thank You to all those who have contributed towards making me feel like this in a place where I spent 16 years of my life and called HOME.</span></span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22087628.post-47234706731837306862008-10-30T21:15:00.004+05:302008-12-22T11:36:43.496+05:30You Judge Yaar!!! 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<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> My blue veins are turning black,</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Blood rushing to obscure corners;</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Turning frenzy into madness,</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Chaos on the borders.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bohemianism smitten on the roads,</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Walking in passive directions;</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Glory around the corners,</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Riot at every intersection.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Shooting colours from the canvas,</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Drown every scream;</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Away from all this,</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Heaven sleeps in peace.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">dISTANT to the pain of random,</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kicking in its dreams.</span></span></span></p> मैं शायर बदनामhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18053726420899487374noreply@blogger.com0