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Tum hi tum ho base khayaalon me, kya likhoon ab ki kuch bacha hi nahi. bhari mehfil me bulava do jhukti palkon ka, pukaarne ka voh andaaz ab bacha hi nahi. jo ghul jata tha tabiyat me shahad ke jaisa, tamaam shahar me vo lahza kahin bacha hi nahi. ye mere dil ke lahoo se ranga tera haath sanam, hina ke rang ke layak ye ab bacha hi nahi. mere pahoonchne me bahut der na ho jaaye kahin, aur vo kah den ab aaye ho? kuch bacha hi nahi. ki jis lohe se khuda dhaalta tha aadam ko, ab bahut saal hue, faulaad voh bacha hi nahi. aaj duniya me her insaan lahoo ka hai pyaasa, aur ragon me daudta paani, lahoo bacha hi nahi. ki ab maykhaane me sab pee ke hosh khote hain, jo pee ke hosh me aaye, voh ab bacha hi nahi. vaqt ne likh diya sab kuch abhaga chehre per, chhipaayen dil me jise, raaj ab bacha hi nahi.

This comes from here . Awesome site if you are feeling a little down at work. Works magic for me. (Be warned that some of the content might be offensive. Click at your own risk. (no images, only text) ) 1. Save every Free Credit Card Offer you get, Put it in pile A 2. Save every Free Coupon You get, put that in pile B 3. Now open the credit card mail from pile A and find the Business Reply Mail Envelope. 4. Take the coupons from pile B and stuff them in the envelope you hold in your hand. 5. Drop the stuffed to the brim envelopes in your mail and walk away whistling. I have now received two phone calls from the credit card companies telling me that they received a stuffed envelope with coupons rather then my application. They informed me that it they are not pleased that they footed the bill for the crap I sent them. I reply with "It says Business Reply Mail" I'm suggesting coupons to you to ensure that your business...

A lovely poem about the marginalia , something to which I have been quite opposed till now ( and I am not alone ) but recently I am beginning to rethink about it. More of that later, right now enjoy the poem. Its lovely !! Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I could just get my hands on you, Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O'Brien, they seem to say, I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head. Other comments are more offhand, dismissive - "Nonsense." "Please!" "HA!!" - that kind of thing. I remember once looking up from my reading, my thumb as a bookmark, trying to imagine what the person must look like why wrote "Don't be a ninny" alongside a paragraph in The Life of Emily Dickinson. Students are more modest needing to leave only their splayed footprints along the shore of the page. One scrawls "Metaphor" next ...

Yes I have done it again !! Once again in my life, I stamped myself with the mark that I hate most, the mark of being a mediocre !! I don't mind begin bad, hardly anyone minds being good but mediocre is one thing I never want to be. It has happened so many times in the life now that I hardly feel sad and that makes it even worse. I am getting used to live like this. And this time it was nothing less but the profession that I have chosen for my life, things that I have been doing for 5-6 years now. After having spent 5 years typing, sitting in front of computer I do not know how to put together a decent piece of code fast enough !! How much more time do you need Mr. Abhaya Agarwal? How much? Yes Google I accept !! I am still not worthy enough to set foot on your premises. But I will be. Because if India has to change, I have to be the first one !

Today seems to be the day to take all the quizzes !! I am not "that" good really ;) Your Seduction Style: Ideal Lover You seduce people by tapping into their dreams and desires. And because of this sensitivity, you can be the ideal lover for anyone you seek. You are a shapeshifter - bringing romance, adventure, spirituality to relationships. It all depends on who your with, and what their vision of a perfect relationship is. What Is Your Seduction Style?

Now this is flattering :D. Got the link from Jaya's blog You Are a Pundit Blogger! Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read. Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a few . What kind of blogger are you?

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel. It is a comedy for those who think." May be it is a action movie for those who act :)

Since a lot of people have been reaching on my site searching for the Jagjit Singh and Ghulam Ali concert, I thought I would put up the relevent information. Date : 5th March Venue: Tickets: priced at 250, 500 and 1000/- available at Planet M, Pizza Corner and some more places. will update it soon.

Veg Burger at KFC (in Forum Mall to be specific) sucks big time. I took the crispy one and if that was a crispy one, God have mercy on the normal one. MacD wins hands down. It is not on thin air that they have built such a fortune. They rock !!

bahut bechain hai ye dil mera, ki aaj kisne hume yaad kiya? mili sharaab ya aankh ke aansoo, ki humne jo bhi piya khoob piya. Hansi khushi umeeden baad-e-vafaa, mila tha jo bhi sabko baant diya. liya Zindagi ko humne aade haath her pal, Aur zindagi ne bhi bharpoor inteqaam liya. dekh yoon zindagi ka haal abhaga bola, jiya jiya, na jiya to bhi aisa kya na jiya.

Raaj-e-mohabbat jin dilon me hote hain, voh kuch chup chap se, khaamosh se kyon hote hain? mahakte hain chaman jin gulon ki khushbu se, subeh do ashk unki aankh me kyon hote hain? na ki parwah kuch zinda main jab tarapta tha, mere marne pe voh kyon zaar zaar rote hain? lagaaye daag kaise aadmi ne seene pe, zamin ke, abr her ek roj aake dhote hain. ye bahaaren, ye mahfilen, ye khushi ka aalam, aur hum badhavaas se, khaamosh baithe rote hain. Na ker tu gam mere dil ab kisi ke khone per, voh kahan paate hain jo kuch bhi nahi khote hain.

Another gem from Hussain brothers. I got two more of their albums yesterday which takes the count to 11 now. Once again, you have to listen to this one to understand why it is here and what does it have to say that you cannot read. Meri uljhan se mere saath ulajhne vala, koi to hota meri baat samajhne vala. Aaine teri to sakhiyan hain voh aankhen, ye bata, kiske khwaab un me sanjoye hai sanwarne vala. Apna dil bhi vo kasauti pe kabhi to rakhe, mere ahsas ka maghmoom parakhne vala. [maghmoom - woe] abke aaye jo koi abr to kuch aisa khayaal, meri aankhon ki tarah roj barasne vala. -- Priyadarshi Thakur Khayal Jagjit Singh and Ghulam Ali are giving a combined concert in Bangalore on 5th of March. Guess who is excited about it :)

here is something for you (old movie posters)

I know it is a little late but how often do you find somebody like John Milton writing a sonnet about turning 23. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arrived so near, And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits indu'th. Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-master's eye. -- John Milton Now at first look his poetry seems to be rather terse and lacking in warmth but I have found that it does has a way of growing on you over the time . "On His Blindness" makes much more sense now then it used to back in school. Following is a...

The arguments of last two posts seem to indicate that the future of human languages is quite bleak. There is however a silver lining in the black clouds. As I see it now, the previous arguments fail if you want to apply them to things related to art. I am using this word in the broad sense of meaning most of the creative activities. Now in art, there is little role of "building on top". Surely to become a good writer, as anybody would tell you, you must read a lot or to produce good music, it helps to listen to a lot of good music. It helps but again whenever you start, you are at ground zero. You have to start on your own and buildup. The fact that Ghalib wrote very good sher-o-shayari, makes it no easy or no less creative for a new shayaar to start writing. Similarly Picasso's paintings might have influenced a lot of painters but each and every one of their works is a result of a journey they did alone. Another point is that I think most of the art is very personal. A ...

While writing the last post, I again got a direction that led to my favorite theory of future evolution of human race, namely gaia or collective intelligence. I am not sure how much time it will take us to reach there and the chances of it happening in my lifetime or your are quite bleak. We are talking of evolution here guys :) !! If you again consider the argument of last post and I would stick with the mathematics, today one needs to study a lot before he gets to the point where he can start making new contributions to a field and even then he/she ends up in a very specialized field. Now there are two things that make this model of progress inherently doomed. First one is a little silly but it stands none the less. Most of the major contributions of a mathematician come at a young age and in the first half of his career. There are very few examples of ground breaking works from old mathematicians. For more on this, Hardy's "A Mathematician's Apology" is a good read...

If one has to name one skill of human race that has enabled it to survive and prosper on earth, it will have to be the ability to build up on top of existing knowledge. And if we stretch the point a bit more, even the evolution of life is dependent on this very ability. The difference is that before the evolution of primates, this ability was mainly hidden in the genes, completely in the hands of nature, something called Natural Selection. But as the evolution happened and the brain size increased, species started to use this ability consciously and then came man and devised language. Normally when we talk about language, we think of it as a medium to communicate information. But language also enables us to store information. The capability to store information protects against the attrition of knowledge and allows the coming generations to build on top of what has already been done. And this is one of the aims of education that the champions of creativity sometimes completely forget. ...

This one is a proper Ghazal following all the rules of form of Ghazal. The meter of different shers might be a little off but I hope it is bearable. kabhi hans ke thodi shikayat karenge, meri jaan sun na ki sapno ki tanhai me kuch kahenge, meri jaan sun na. range kore kagaz the pahle bhi maine, magar tumse mil ke, ajab dard aaya hai nagmon me mere, meri jaan sun na. Machalna to hai dil ki aadat purani, magar is dafa to, buna dhadkano ne bhi hai ek tarana, meri jaan sun na. jo taareekh me darz ho na sakin, aisi kuch daastanen, shab-e-taar me gungunaate hain taare, meri jaan sun na [shab-e-taar - dark night] hawayen kahengi khalish mere dil ki , magar apne muh se kah na sakoonga main tumse abhaga, meri jaan sun na. [khalish - pain]

kabhii yuu.N bhii aa merii aa.Nkh me.n ke merii nazar ko Khabar na ho mujhe ek raat navaaz de magar uske baad sahar na ho [navaaz - to grant] vo ba.Daa rahiim-o-kariim hai mujhe ye sifat bhii ataa kare tujhe bhuulane kii duaa karuu.N to duaa me.n merii asar na ho [rahiim-o-kariim - kind & generous; sifat - talent] mere baazuo.n me.n thakii thakii , abhii mahav-e-Khvaab hai chaa.Ndanii na uThe sitaaro.n kii paalakii, abhii aahaTo.n kaa guzar na ho ye Gazal ki jaise hiran kii aa.Nkho.n me.n pichhalii raat kii chaa.Ndanii na bujhe Kharaabe kii roshanii, kabhii becharaaG ye ghar na ho vo firaaq ho yaa visaal ho, terii yaad mahakegii ek din vo gulaab ban ke khilegaa kyaa, jo chiraaG ban ke jalaa na ho kabhii dhuup de, kabhii badaliyaa.N, dil-o-jaa.N se dono.n qubuul hai.n magar us nagar me.n na qaid kar jahaa.N zindagii kii havaa na ho kabhii din kii dhuup me.n jhuum ke kabhii shab ke phuul ko chuum ke yuu.N hii saath saath chale.n sadaa kabhii Khatm apanaa safar na ho [shab - night] me...

One of these days I may write more about it but for the time being, he said it all .