Kabhi jo mango woh de diya kar zindagi.

Kabi to meri Maa ke tarh ban.

Wehmo gumaan se dur dur

Yakeen ki had ke paas paas

Dil ko bharam yeh ho gaya, unko humse pyaar hai!!!

 Ek din woh bhi ayega 

Jab taren honge mutthi main.

Khushi hogi jeb main 

Aur zindagi khilkhialyegi jalebi

Woh din kabhi to aayega !!!

Let me simply be your friend

 Let me simply be your friend

I'd like to capture a rainbow
and stick it in a big box so that,
anytime you wanted to,
you could reach in and pull out
a piece of sunshine.

I'd like to build you a mountain
that you could call your very own
a place to find serenity
in those times when you
feel the need to be
closer to yourself...

I'd like to be the one
who's there when you're
lonely or troubled
or you just need
someone to hold on to.

I'd like to do all this and more
to make your life happy.

But, sometimes,
it isn't easy to do
the things I would like to do
or give the things I would like to give.

So... until I learn how to
catch rainbows and build mountains,
let me do for you which I know best...

..Let me simply be your friend.

 

Bengali Songs I like 

Beautiful composition by Pancham da

Another random discovery

Shyamal Mitra sings for Salil Chowdhury. The Song inspired the Hindi song ,which is used in the movie based on "Usne Kaha Tha" - a must read

 

Internet sensation of 2008. Another Rabindra Sangeeth composition.  

 

  Ode to SIFT  (STEP IN FOR TORTURE)
   
   I was 21,  and I was having fun,
   Life was on, till the end of B.Com.
   It was that day when I lost my way
   Successful I wanted to be, and I entered SIFT,
   STEP IN FOR TORTURE.
 
   I wished to live a 100 years,
   But there my failure, here my tears.
   Before grievance had found a vent,
   My backlogs had caused my end.
   STEP IN FOR TORTURE
 
   Bury me deep, four feet deep,
   So that I can sleep,
   Put my backlogs on my head,
   And tell Mr. Chopra, that’s why I’m dead.
   STEP IN FOR TORTURE
 
   In the mill of presentations,
   My head got crushed,
   My energy got flushed……………..
 
   Hola! Adios! Que Tal?
   Spanish makes me muy mal!
   Oh! Mrs. Maria please do know
   Espanol adds to my woe.
   STEP IN FOR TORTURE
 
   EVA, Leverage and Corporate Tax
   Oh! This burden on my back
   Finance! Not my Knack!
   Oh! Mr. Limaye please relax!
   STEP IN FOR TORTURE
 
   Windows, Explore andd Mouse
   My joy do they cloud
   ERP, E-Com, Y2K
   Here I go Mr. Gupte.
   STEP IN FOR TORTURE
 
   Now I’m dead,
   And on my tomb a not so true
   Leaves the SIFTians , so sad, so blue
   “Here lies the incredible man
   Who had so lovely plans
   Who’s efforts without fault
   Yet the result not worth the salt,
   Who left for heavenly abode so soon
   For SIFT have given him
   An academic doom.
  STEP IN FOR TORTURE

शहीदों की चिताओं पर / जगदंबा प्रसाद मिश्र ‘हितैषी’

 उरूजे कामयाबी पर कभी हिन्दोस्ताँ होगा

रिहा सैयाद के हाथों से अपना आशियाँ होगा

चखाएँगे मज़ा बर्बादिए गुलशन का गुलचीं को

बहार आ जाएगी उस दम जब अपना बाग़बाँ होगा

ये आए दिन की छेड़ अच्छी नहीं ऐ ख़ंजरे क़ातिल

पता कब फ़ैसला उनके हमारे दरमियाँ होगा

जुदा मत हो मेरे पहलू से ऐ दर्दे वतन हरगिज़

न जाने बाद मुर्दन मैं कहाँ औ तू कहाँ होगा

वतन की आबरू का पास देखें कौन करता है

सुना है आज मक़तल में हमारा इम्तिहाँ होगा

शहीदों की चिताओं पर लगेगें हर बरस मेले

वतन पर मरनेवालों का यही बाक़ी निशाँ होगा

कभी वह दिन भी आएगा जब अपना राज देखेंगे

जब अपनी ही ज़मीं होगी और अपना आसमाँ होगा

रचनाकाल : 1916

WTF Joke

 Why is it called "having a baby"

 and not " Adding to my carbon footprint".

किसके लिये लिखूँ

 किसके लिये लिखूँ मैं 

है कोई इसे पढ़ने वाला 

है कोई इसे समझने वाला 

है कोई इसे जीने वाला 

खो जाएँगे यह भी लाखों की भीड़ में कहीं 

बिन कहे अपना पूरा सच 

बिन जिए अपने अधूरे सपने

नींद

 कैसी नींद है यह 

कुछ ख़याल सोते नहीं 

कुछ पलकें झपकती नहीं

बदली सी मचलती है 

इन आँखों को थकाकर

फिर ओझल हो जाती है 

कहीं रात के अंधेरे में 

बाट देखते, इंतज़ार करते

चाँदनी समेट लेती है 

थाम लेती है चंचल मन को

Reality

 Alone at night 

With just vodka for company 

One full glass 

Thoughts run amok 

North Pole to the south 

In all directions 

So many perspectives 

Emerge, merge and then disappear 

One after another 

Making you realise 

Nothing is worth the struggle 

To seek yourself 

This one night 

Lonely dark desolate and sad 

Is your reality

भीड़ और मैं

 किस भीड़ में खोये हो 

किस राह की तलाश है 

किस मंज़र का इंतज़ार है 

ना होगी कोई दस्तक

ना होगी कोई खटक

बस बेगाने कभी अपने ही चलेंगे 

और कभी अपने पराये 

ढूँढो खुद को इस भीड़ मे

तराशो अपना रास्ता 

मोड़ तो बहुत आयेंगे 

पर सन्नाटे में, द्वंद में 

उन अंधेरी तन्हा गलियों में 

हमेशा अकेले ही ख़ुद तो पाओगे

मुंह की बात एंड मन की बात

muñh kī baat sune har koī dil ke dard ko jaane kaun 

āvāzoñ ke bāzāroñ meñ ḳhāmoshī pahchāne kaun

This mismatch between the mouth and heart grows as we grow up. In fact this is the real growing up we need to do, to hide and pretend.

A child never pretends, we make games and play situation so they learn to pretend , to think and act what they aren't . 

We call it encouraging creativity but we are teaching to them to pretend.

Grown up are defined by the level of pretence kept and maintained by us. We have a version of our self to all people around us. Each person around us maintaines a version of us and we try to project a version to each of them.

This could be the actual multiverse concept. We are living the multiple version of ourself for others. 

Only the " self" knows the real version or in most case some part of it. We ourself can't predict what we will do when faced with situation never faced before.Will we fight or flight, empathize or ignore?

And for this only the poet says:

vo merī parchhā.īñ hai yā maiñ us kā ā.īna huuñ 

mere hī ghar meñ rahtā hai mujh jaisā hī jaane kaun.

Return of the traveller

" The traveler slowly opens the lock ,he has not seen the inside of this  room for last 5 years . The room smells of stale air as if the world has stopped inside.

As his eyes slowly adjust to the lights,unknown things start becoming familiar.Dust is everywhere so the traveler spruces up a small place to sit.

Soon memories from all corner overwhelm him,conversation held in past start ringing in his ears.He is not sure if they actually happened or imagination of his tired and weary mind.

He hears laughter and sighs,celebration of victories and consolation for setbacks. He tries to shut down the noise but memories have their own way.

This room is his and the traveler plans to claim it back. He plans to create more memory here."

This is the poetic version of what happened here on the blog. I stopped writing for 5 years and now have felt the urge again to regain this space.  

Have started the clean up and hope to create more memories here.

So watch out for the space.  

All companies are created equal under company law but some achieve greatness by association. If time had no barrier and you could live a totally filmy life these are few companies you out to work for -


1) Jackson Tolaram Company - An accounting firm of repute actually ill repute .famous for love marriages among co-workers. Most famous employee- Mr.Arun Pradeep aka Amol Palekar Designation- account officer. The company office is /near World trade centre Mumbai 07 & 08th Floor. The lunch options are Samovar inside Jehangir Art Gallery ;famous for Chicken alafoos  and Chinese food. You can catch matinee show at Gaiety where Amitabh starrer Zameer is being shown. In case you have some personality issues you can take a train to Khandala to meet Colonel Julius Nagendranath Wilfred Singh   the author of best  seller   date rape  book  "Drawing se bedroom tak - in 3 आसान चालों में". You have to take a left at the Khandala  satiation to reach Col’s residence/training institute .
२) Bhavani Shankar  Enterprises - Depending on the calendar year it could be an general trading company or just another company, what remains constant is the owner Bhavani Shankar aka Utpal Dutt- defender of faith, protector of mustache(chooti se baat) ,bachelor( naram garam),disciplinarian and dismissive of black pearl (Pele).

You can only be recurited to the firm at the pay of 850Rs per month if you could go through a demanding interview . The interview will focus on examining a balance sheet( prepeared by Mr. Bhavani shankar himself) and general awareness question. Any attempt to answer the question correctly willl go against you. If you are amongst the 30-40,000 people who welcomed Pele at Old Dumdum airport at Kolkata at midnight you can kiss this job goodbye as well.

Your other co-worker  is Mr. Bade babu who is Urdu speaking, शेर rendering  “nose –gardener”. His views on time management is in direct contrast to owner’s philosophy but still are tolerated in the company.

If you could point out the mistakes in the existing accounts and actually demonstrate that Bhavani Shankar has been overpaying its supplier you get a chance for a pay hike. Taking a half day leave on account of your non-existing mother’s illness and being spotted at a hockey test match  by Mr. Bhavani Shankar will spell “GOLMAL” for your career.   

३) जबलपुर बीडी कारखाना -

The best place to work for Mr. Ahmed S/o Maulvi @ Ramghargh ( aka Sachin). Recommend by his uncle Hiddayaltulla(??) the bidi karkhana is nice place to work .Apart from the usual great pay and local supervision by uncle(mamujaan) the added advantage is to have free bidi at your lunch break and coffee breaks.

My Fav blogger has come up with his book and I strongly recommend everyone to buy his book. Meanwhile I will try to enter "a shameless promotion stunt" to get a FREE copy.
So here is the contest
1) Please visit the link http://greatbong.net/book to read and feel what it is all about.
2)My top 10 Hindi movie lines

1. भैंस पूँछ उठाएगी तो गाना नहीं गाएगी ,गोबर ही करेगी ( Prem Chopra, Aaj ka Arjun)
Roughly translated in queen's language-
if a domestic Asian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) lifts its appendage to the torso(tail) .It is more likely to produce feces( bull shit) than perfect Raag bhairvi.
This translation proves you can take a dialogue from Prem Chopra but you can’t take Prem Chopra from the dialogue.(read it till you get the joke)


2 When I dead, Police coming
Police coming, bhudiya going jail
In jail Bhudiya chakki peesing and peesing and peesing ( Dharmendra, Sholay)
Another example where translation does not make sense.

Now Veeru has been up on the water tank tower for last 3.4 minute explaining how the greater universe will suffer because of the refusal of Mausi to the marriage. But as the movie is about India – unless you speak queen’s language nobody takes you seriously. So when Viru starts english everybody starts listening.To refresh your memory Mausi & Basanti say yes after this English speech. I rest my case.
3)
आया हूँ तो कुछ तो लूट के ले जाऊँगा ! खानदानी  चोर  हूँ खानदानी
!!

There have been Villains & and there will be villains but only GOGO remains the breed apart. We are told that all villains have a flaw in their character hence they act villainous.
Only Gogo claim to do the villainy because of his lineage. So you can safely start hating the sinner as it all runs in the family .

4) साले दारू तो तुने भी जम की पी हें ,बदमाश !! ( Om puri, Jane bhi Do yaron)

As far as drunk scenes and dialogues go this  is the gem and the most quoted one during any drinking session. It is logically followed by another gem of drinking sessions “ गाडी "मैं" चलाऊंगा “ .
5) कितने आदमी थे - No explanation required

a day like that

Was trawling the web when came across this at http://avinashkishoreshahi.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/babul-tum-bagiyaa-ke-taruvar-gopal-singh-nepali-dharmyug-1957/ . Really liked the poetry -

Babul Tum Bagiyaa Ke Taruvar (Gopal Singh Nepali, Dharmyug 1957)

Babul tum bagiya ke taruvar, ham taruvar ki chidiyaan re

Dana chugte ud jaayen ham, piya milan ki ghadiyaan re

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

Babul tum bagiya ke taruvar…….

Aankhon se aansoo nikle to peechhe take nahi mudke

Ghar ki kanya ban ka panchhi, firein na daali se udke

Baaji haari hui triya ki

Janam-janam saugaat piya ki

Babul tum goonge naina, ham aanso ki fuljhadiyaan re

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

Hamko sudh na janam ke pehle, apni kahan ataari thi

Aankh khuli to nabh ke neeche, ham the god tumhaari thi

Aisa tha wah rain-basera

Jahan saanjh bhi lage savera

Babul tum giriraj Himalaya, ham jharnon ki kadiyaan re

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

Chhitraaye nau lakh sitaare, teri nabh ki chhaya mein

Mandir-moorat, teerath dekhe, hamne teri kaaya mein

Dukh mein bhi hamne sukh dekha

Tumne bas kanya mukh dekha

Babul tum kulvansh kamal ho, ham komal pnkhudiyaan re

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

Bachpan ke bholepan par jab, chhitke rang jawani ke

Pyas preeti ki jaagi to ham, meen bane bin paani ke

Janam-janam ke pyase naina

Chahe nahin kunwaare rehna

Babul dhoondh firo tum hamko, ham dhoondhe bawariya re

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

Chadhti umar badhi to kul-maryada se ja takrayi

Pagdi girne ke dar se, duniya ja doli le aayi

Man roya, goonji shehnai

Nayan bahein, chunri pehnayi

Pehnayi chunri suhaag ki, ya daali hathkadiyaan re

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

Mantra padhe sau sadi purane, reet nibhai preet nahi

Tan ka sauda kar ke bhi to, paya man ka meet nahi

Gaan phool sa, kaante pag mein

Jag ke liye jiye ham jag mein

Babul tum pagdi samaj ke, ham path ki kankadiyaan re

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

Maang rachi aansoo ke upar, ghoonghat geeli aankhon par

Byah naam se yah leela zaahir karwayi laakhon par

…..

….

…

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

Neh laga to naiihar chhoota, piya mile bichhudi sakhiyaan

Pyar batakar peer mili to neer banin footi aankhiyaan

Hui chalakar chaal purani

Nayi jawani paani paani

Chali manane chir vasant mein, jyon sawan ki jhadiyaan re

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

Dekha jo sasural pahunchkar, to duniya hi nyari thi

Phoolon sa tha desh hara, par kaanto ki phulwari thi

Kehne ko saare apne the

Par din dopahar ke sapne the

Mili naam par komalta ke, kewal naram kankadiyaan re

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

Ved shashtra the likhe purush ke, mushkil tha bachkar jaana

Haara daanv bacha lene ko, pati ko parmeshwar jaana

Dulhan banker diya jalaya

Dasi banker ghar bar chalaya

Maa banker mamta baanti to, mahal bani jhonpadiya re

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

Man ki sez sula priyatam ko, deep nayan ka mand kia

Chhuda jagat se apne ko, sindur bindu mein band kia

Zanzeeron mein baandha tan ko

Tyag-raag se saadha man ko

Panchhi ke ud jaane par hi, kholi nayan kiwadiyaan re

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

Janam lia to jale pita-maa, yauvan khila nanad-bhabhi

Byah racha to jala muhalla, putra hua to bandhya bhi

Jale hriday ke andar naari

Us par bahar duniya saari

Mar jaane par bhi marghat mein, jal-jal uthi lakadiyaan re

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

Janam-janam jag ke nakhre par, saj-dhajkar jaayen vaari

Fir bhi samjhe gaye raat-din ham tadan ke adhikaari

Pehle gaye piya jo hamse

Adham bane ham yahan adham se

Pehle hi ham chal basein, to fir jag baatein rewadiyaan re

Ud jaayen to laut na aayen, jyon moti ki ladiyaan re

How to prove that you are bored

1) Touching hot plate to check if it is " hot " enough

2) More example to follow

-:)

Bored to death

When was the last time i used this term lightly. i wanna find that time - travel back in time - and kick myself in butt.

I also vow not to use the term lightly in remembrance to the current days- Amen