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Musafir ke raste badalte rahe, kismat me chalna tha chalte rahe. -- Bashir Badr New place, new ways, new ppl, old faces New paths, unknown destination, New building on old bases. -- me This is abhaga from City of Gardens. I am loving it !!

Long have I bored u guys with tales of some distant Galaxies. Its time now to move closer to home and closer to reality :). Today is our Independence Day and just like every year, its an occasion to feel proud of our country, its achievements and most of all its character. Although I strongly believe that we can surely do with being more aggressive and firm when it comes to international matters, it is not something I would be really proud of. It is more like a necessary evil which cannot be avoided in today's scenario. This reminds me of someting from the famous Chanakya alias Kautilya. When questioned by one of his childhood friends about the rather ruteless image he had acquired, he said, " Under sab shubha hai, shuchi hai per uski raksha ke liye upper se kathorta ka aavaran od liya hai ". A very simple and innocent looking statement but carries the essence of keeping right balance in life. The world always tries to destroy the goodness within us, it makes us look l...

Both DS and PB ended up at a difference of .2%. So both the teams were decleared joint winners. GH took the second place.

What is better than watching a Galaxy? Of course being part of it :) but before I tell u more about it, here are the remaining editions of GT: GH I DS II PB II GH II Apart from regular things like street plays, road paintings, the publicity events were a Parade and a Bhajan Singing march in which the aim was to collect as much money as u can by singing bhajans. These guys had the audacity of actually going to Dean's house and ask him for some money. I heard he bequeathed in the order of Rs. 6 to Rs 10 :), don't know who won in the end though. Lit events saw their usual crowd coming together although the events were much more experimental in nature. I unfortunately missed the GH cul show but other two cul shows were quite impressive. There is however one observation which I cannot avoid making though I am not sure what to conclude from it. In our times, Hall 2 used to always get screwed in musicals which was the forte of Hall 3. In the play the situation was just the...

is available here . This one is by the team "प्राणस्य भावः" (pranasya bhavah). It turns out that out of the 7 teams proposed, only 3 are actually participating. I have mentioned about two of them already and fortunately or unfortunately, one of them comprises of Hall 2 guys and another, of Hall 3. But can anybody guess which is the 3rd team? With Hall 1 choosing to remain out of the picture for the most part, it is our very own GH that has a team in the running and as far as I have heard, they are working pretty hard. In the golden olden times :), GH used to be one of the rotating teams. They used to be paired up with hall 1, hall2 and hall 3 in a cyclic order. Other rotating teams were the two PG hostels. Now although, I would not go on to say that GH used to be passive but Galaxy never seemed to arouse the same kind of passion there as was seen in Hall 2 and Hall 3. One reason is obvious. When u are being forced to change ur loyalties every year, it becomes kinda toug...

Can't say that this makes me happy but it surely moves my heart. Galaxy is back !! Its very low scale, even if u are on campus, u can easily miss it all together, I haven't seen any of the events to comment on the quality but it is happening ! I have no doubt that the organizers are insane but galaxy can do that to u. I would try to do an online coverage of whatever happens and whatever I am able to catch but here are some tid-bits to start with: Galaxy 2004 : Announcement Page Galaxy Times : 1st Edition (Dhande Shining Team) psd, I hope u remember the Galaxy Times :)

As pointed out by anonymous in the comments to last post, those lines are actually the English translation of a part of the following. It has been penned by noted Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz who is credited with introducing political awareness in Urdu language for the first time. सुबह-ए-आज़ादी ये दाग़ दाग़ उजाला, ये शब गज़ीदा सहर वो इन्तज़ार था जिसका, ये वो सहर तो नहीं ये वो सहर तो नहीं जिस की आरज़ू लेकर चले थे यार कि मिल जायेगी कहीं न कहीं फ़लक के दश्त में तारों की आख़िरी मंज़िल कहीं तो होगा शब-ए-सुस्त मौज का साहिल कहीं तो जा के रुकेगा सफ़ीना-ए-ग़म-ए-दिल जवाँ लहू की पुर-असरार शाहराहों से चले जो यार तो दामन पे कितने हाथ पडे दयार-ए-हुस्न की बे-सब्र ख़्वाब-गाहों से पुकारती रहीं बाहें बदन बुलाते रहे बहुत अज़ीज़ थी लेकिन रुख़-ए-सहर की लगन बहुत क़रीं था हसीनान-ए-नूर का दामन सुबक सुबक थी तमन्ना, दबी दबी थी थकन सुना है हो भी चुका है फ़िराक़-ए-ज़ुल्मत-ए-नूर सुना है हो भी चुका है विसाल-ए-मंज़िल-ओ-गाम बदल चुका है बहुत अहल्-ए-दर्द का दस्तूर निशात-ए-वस्ल हलाल-ओ-अज़ाब्-ए-हिज्र-ए-हराम ज...

This is one of my favorite pieces of poetry. Haven't been able to determine the original source but I picked it up from the .plan file of a senior. A pretty odd place to look for good poetry but pays off at times :) To all my friends, Life isn't fun anymore. This isn't that long-looked for break of day, That those comrades in arms set out in search of, Hoping that in heaven's wide void, Somewhere must be the star's last halting place, Somewhere the verge of night's slow washing tide, Somewhere an anchorage for the ship of heart ache.

Yesterday was the Friendship Day. I spent the last 21 Friendship Days without even knowing that they were passing by. But yesterday I came to know and there couldn't have been a better time. Friendship is something that we all cherish but few of us understand. We all want friends but we seldom know what we want in a friend. We all call somebody our best friend and we hardly ever stop to think what does that mean. And then there is love. How do u differentiate between love and friendship? Where does one stop and the other start? Unfortunately, a Friendship Day doesn't help us in resolving any of these issues. But what it does is that it gives us a chance to stop and think about them. It gives us a day to celebrate one of the most wonderful relationships in the world. I think that the best way to celebrate it is to spend a day alone, away from all the friends. Now this may seem like a odd way to celebrate a Friendship Day but the thing to realize is that the beauty is not alwa...