मेरी आदत है कभी कभी एक पुरी कविता की जगह बस ३-४ पंक्तियाँ लिख देता हूँ । कभी ये अधूरी लगती हैं , कभी पुरी। कुछ ऐसी ही पुरानी रचनाएँ ...
१) न धरती पिघलती, न रोता आसमान
फ़िर क्यूँ बदलता है हर लम्हा इंसान?
२) खोखले जिस्मों की भीड़ में, एक रूह तलाशता हूँ मैं।
अब भी इन मुर्दों की बस्ती में, एक हमदर्द तलाशता हूँ मैं ।
अपने ही ख्यालों से दूर, अक्सर भागता हूँ मैं।
चाहत की अब चाहत न रही, फ़िर क्या चाहता हूँ मैं?
३) मैं तो सन्नाटों के ही शोर से परेशान हूँ,
जाने क्या हाल होता महफ़िल-ऐ-जहाँ में !
४) रखना सम्हाल कर बूंदों को , कल आँखें इनको तरसेंगी,
जाने किस देश की बूंदे हैं , और किस धरती पर बरसेंगी !
५ ) आबाद दिल के जहाँ को बरबाद कर गए,
एक रोज़ भरी महफ़िल में वो आदाब कर गए :)
६ ) गर निगाहें मिलने से ही , इश्क होता ऐ नादान ,
तो हर आँख दिखाने वाला मेरा महबूब होता !
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Its Truth or Perception?
If I am asked which is the most sought after secret the world over, I’d say answer to what ‘Truth’ is. Human civilization has tried to demystify ‘Truth’ through various paths since time immemorial. The concepts of religion, philosophy, physics, mathematics, chemistry etc are all derived as byproduct of the quest to answer this very question.
One day I gave it a thought too। After all, we all have the freedom to think! The enormity of this question dwarfed me just as the stretch of the blue sky above does. Let me share my line of thinking, let’s see if I get some interesting ideas from any of you too :).
Let us take a Red Rose. In absolute common sense, the truth is – it is a red rose. Why does it look red? Scientifically, it absorbs all the remaining colors of the spectrum except red, and hence reflects it. The human eye receives the red light reflected from the rose through its receptors and recognizes it as the color red. Hence, we summarize that this rose is red and there are no two thoughts about it, it’s the absolute truth. It can be verified again and again on consultations with our fellow beings around. Now, let’s see the same rose through the eyes of say a cow, a dog, a cat (think of all strange animals you have seen too!)? Do you think all of them would see this rose as red? No, they won’t. Because their eyes are different than ours! They are not designed to receive the same bandwidth of colors as are visible to the human eye. So what happens to our belief of this rose being red?
It turns out; it was our ‘Perception’ that the rose is red. In fact, the ‘fact’ that a particular frequency belongs to the color ‘Red’ is also a perception! Cats might be seeing the same frequency of light as ‘Green’, who knows? I just took a small example to analyze how we form beliefs. In the above example, it is our sense of sight that we have standardized as per our convenience over the years and that set standard is perceived to be absolute truth. I think we still are nowhere near solving this mystery of ‘Truth’. The best we can do is ‘Perceive’ :) .
One day I gave it a thought too। After all, we all have the freedom to think! The enormity of this question dwarfed me just as the stretch of the blue sky above does. Let me share my line of thinking, let’s see if I get some interesting ideas from any of you too :).
Let us take a Red Rose. In absolute common sense, the truth is – it is a red rose. Why does it look red? Scientifically, it absorbs all the remaining colors of the spectrum except red, and hence reflects it. The human eye receives the red light reflected from the rose through its receptors and recognizes it as the color red. Hence, we summarize that this rose is red and there are no two thoughts about it, it’s the absolute truth. It can be verified again and again on consultations with our fellow beings around. Now, let’s see the same rose through the eyes of say a cow, a dog, a cat (think of all strange animals you have seen too!)? Do you think all of them would see this rose as red? No, they won’t. Because their eyes are different than ours! They are not designed to receive the same bandwidth of colors as are visible to the human eye. So what happens to our belief of this rose being red?
It turns out; it was our ‘Perception’ that the rose is red. In fact, the ‘fact’ that a particular frequency belongs to the color ‘Red’ is also a perception! Cats might be seeing the same frequency of light as ‘Green’, who knows? I just took a small example to analyze how we form beliefs. In the above example, it is our sense of sight that we have standardized as per our convenience over the years and that set standard is perceived to be absolute truth. I think we still are nowhere near solving this mystery of ‘Truth’. The best we can do is ‘Perceive’ :) .
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
कल की कल्पना
रात के समाचार में आतंकवाद , नक्सलवाद, मिसाइल, बम जैसे शब्दों को सुनकर जब चांदनी रात के आसमान की ओर देखा तो कुछ ऐसे ख़याल आए :
लगता है ये चाँद कभी किसी आतंकवादी गिरोह का आत्मघाती सदस्य रहा होगा। एक रोज़ जब फिदाइन हमला करते हुए इसे पकड़ लिया गया, तो इसने ख़ुद को फांसी लगा ली और बम से उड़ा लिया।
ये जो सफ़ेद सा गोला रोज़ आसमान में दिखता है ना...... वो उस आतंकवादी का फांसी में लटका हुआ सर है। और अपने कमर से बांधे हुए बम से उसने अपने शरीर के असंख्य टुकड़े कर लिए , जो पुरे आसमान में तारे बन कर बिखर गए हैं।
लगता है ये चाँद कभी किसी आतंकवादी गिरोह का आत्मघाती सदस्य रहा होगा। एक रोज़ जब फिदाइन हमला करते हुए इसे पकड़ लिया गया, तो इसने ख़ुद को फांसी लगा ली और बम से उड़ा लिया।
ये जो सफ़ेद सा गोला रोज़ आसमान में दिखता है ना...... वो उस आतंकवादी का फांसी में लटका हुआ सर है। और अपने कमर से बांधे हुए बम से उसने अपने शरीर के असंख्य टुकड़े कर लिए , जो पुरे आसमान में तारे बन कर बिखर गए हैं।
वक्त रहते कुछ नही बदला तो शायद भविष्य की कल्पना ऐसी ही हो :)
Sunday, October 25, 2009
एक ख़याल
हर रोज़ नए चेहरे, हर रोज़ नयी बातें ,
जाने कितनी झूठी और कितनी सच्ची मुलाकातें
है वही ज़मीन और वही आसमा पर,
हर रोज़ नए दिन हर रोज़ नयी रातें
जाने कितनी झूठी और कितनी सच्ची मुलाकातें
है वही ज़मीन और वही आसमा पर,
हर रोज़ नए दिन हर रोज़ नयी रातें
Friday, October 16, 2009
Happy diwali !
गीली मिटटी का एक दिया, जब अमावस के अँधेरे से लड़ता है...स्वयं राम बन हर आँगन सु-राज की कोशिश करता है !
हो खुशियों से भरा यह दीपपर्व जो सब को प्रकाशित करता है !!
दीपावली की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं. :)
हो खुशियों से भरा यह दीपपर्व जो सब को प्रकाशित करता है !!
दीपावली की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं. :)
Friday, August 21, 2009
Isn’t ‘I’ taller than ‘We’?
It’s said that man is a social animal.
Well, accepting the animal part is a bit awkward for some, but most of us take pride in the ‘social’ tag and it shows!
Around the world people are identified by their names, which majorly constitutes of 'Last Name' and 'First Name'. The ‘Last Name’ usually depicts an association to a family, village or society. We join clubs, social organizations, political parties, religious cults etc.
There is a definite pattern when we look at the basis of all the above associations – a sense of ‘common’ identity. The underlying ‘commonness’ could be religious belief, family name, or a political ideology!
The latest victim of this ‘Herd mentality’ is Jaswant singh. The poor man was expelled from BJP just because the views he expressed in his book did not match with the ‘ideology’ of his party. I look at this incidence from a different angle than – ‘Was Jinnah a saint or Satan and how true is the book?’
Does an individual’s association to a group dissociate him from his own self? Do his individual thinking, logic, reasoning have no right to exist? The people at helm say, ‘They can exist but within the close confines of one’s mind’.
In context of this incident – I was listening to Mr Parkash Jawadekar (BJP Spokesman) in a news channel and he says – ‘Mr. Singh’s views hold right as an individual’s, but he cannot express them while being a member of a party that is opposed to them’. I find this argument justifiable too. It’s like saying that you have boarded a bus going to Mumbai and we all are going there too, if you have to go to Delhi, please change the bus! I say – why not have a car? :)
In my personal opinion, I hold an Individual’s right to exist superior than anything else. By existence, I mean physical and mental. There is nothing more powerful in this world than an identity that has realized its potential. Interestingly, all the achievements of mankind are attributed to individuals and not societies! Who invented telescope? ‘Galileo’. Who discovered Gravity? ‘Sir Issac Newton’. If anyone ever heard – let me know when a ‘community’ has been known to make a breakthroughJ. Even if it did – there would have been a single brain in there who would have suggested the idea ;).
Well, accepting the animal part is a bit awkward for some, but most of us take pride in the ‘social’ tag and it shows!
Around the world people are identified by their names, which majorly constitutes of 'Last Name' and 'First Name'
There is a definite pattern when we look at the basis of all the above associations – a sense of ‘common’ identity. The underlying ‘commonness’ could be religious belief, family name, or a political ideology!
The latest victim of this ‘Herd mentality’ is Jaswant singh. The poor man was expelled from BJP just because the views he expressed in his book did not match with the ‘ideology’ of his party. I look at this incidence from a different angle than – ‘Was Jinnah a saint or Satan and how true is the book?’
Does an individual’s association to a group dissociate him from his own self? Do his individual thinking, logic, reasoning have no right to exist? The people at helm say, ‘They can exist but within the close confines of one’s mind’.
In context of this incident – I was listening to Mr Parkash Jawadekar (BJP Spokesman) in a news channel and he says – ‘Mr. Singh’s views hold right as an individual’s, but he cannot express them while being a member of a party that is opposed to them’. I find this argument justifiable too. It’s like saying that you have boarded a bus going to Mumbai and we all are going there too, if you have to go to Delhi, please change the bus! I say – why not have a car? :)
In my personal opinion, I hold an Individual’s right to exist superior than anything else. By existence, I mean physical and mental. There is nothing more powerful in this world than an identity that has realized its potential. Interestingly, all the achievements of mankind are attributed to individuals and not societies! Who invented telescope? ‘Galileo’. Who discovered Gravity? ‘Sir Issac Newton’. If anyone ever heard – let me know when a ‘community’ has been known to make a breakthroughJ. Even if it did – there would have been a single brain in there who would have suggested the idea ;).
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
..Har kona hai 'Gulzaar' !
Just a few days back I heard songs from ‘Kaminey’ and got them on my music player. I did not see the name of lyricist first then heard this line –
‘Chaand ki gathri sir pe le li, aap ne kaisi zehmat ki hai…( Pehli baar mohabbat ki hai) ‘
And I knew it has to be Gulzaar saab !
What flower is without fragrance, is a man without emotions. Most of us ‘feel’ about the world around us but very few have the ability to convey the same. In contrast, there are some who can express feelings which are not their own! Imagine the same person as -
A kid having fun – Lakdi ki kaathi , kaathi pe ghodaa
A lone soul – Ek akela is sheher me, raat me aur do peher me
A celebrating spirit - Jai ho!
A lover - Aapki aankhon me kuchh, mehke hue se khwab hain.
A longing partner - Tere bina zindagi se koi shikwa to nahi
Think of any situation in life and you have a Gulzar song for it! Celebrating his 75th birthday today is one of the finest writers of our era – Sampooran Singh AKA ‘Gulzar’. I was watching a brief history of his work on a TV show today and was amazed to find that he has been writing since 1960s and exceptionally has never been out of synch with the pulse of the generation. He was as beautiful in writing ‘Mora gora rang dayi de’ in 60’s as he is when he declares ‘Beedi jalai le jigar se piya’ in 2006.
What I personally find distinct in Gulzar saab’s work is his abstract way of looking at things. The comparisons he makes are always his signature ones! His work will always open new windows of imagination for the listener/reader. I don’t have words to mention even an alphabet of his epics. Listing some of my favorites from Gulzar saab.. Happy Birthday Sir!
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‘Tumhaare ghum ki dali utha kar, zubaan pe rakh li hai dekho maine..
Ye katra-katra pighal rahi hai, main katra –katra hi jee rahaa hoon.’
- Marasim -
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‘Dopehren aisi lagti hain , bina mohron ke khaali khane rakhe hain..
Na koi khelne wala hai baazi, na koi chaal chalta hai!
- Raincoat -
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‘Saara din sadkon pe khaali rikshe sa..peeche peecha chalta hai’
-Satya -
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‘Ae maut tu ek kavita hai’ ( Anand)
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And innumerable others!!
‘Chaand ki gathri sir pe le li, aap ne kaisi zehmat ki hai…( Pehli baar mohabbat ki hai) ‘
And I knew it has to be Gulzaar saab !
What flower is without fragrance, is a man without emotions. Most of us ‘feel’ about the world around us but very few have the ability to convey the same. In contrast, there are some who can express feelings which are not their own! Imagine the same person as -
A kid having fun – Lakdi ki kaathi , kaathi pe ghodaa
A lone soul – Ek akela is sheher me, raat me aur do peher me
A celebrating spirit - Jai ho!
A lover - Aapki aankhon me kuchh, mehke hue se khwab hain.
A longing partner - Tere bina zindagi se koi shikwa to nahi
Think of any situation in life and you have a Gulzar song for it! Celebrating his 75th birthday today is one of the finest writers of our era – Sampooran Singh AKA ‘Gulzar’. I was watching a brief history of his work on a TV show today and was amazed to find that he has been writing since 1960s and exceptionally has never been out of synch with the pulse of the generation. He was as beautiful in writing ‘Mora gora rang dayi de’ in 60’s as he is when he declares ‘Beedi jalai le jigar se piya’ in 2006.
What I personally find distinct in Gulzar saab’s work is his abstract way of looking at things. The comparisons he makes are always his signature ones! His work will always open new windows of imagination for the listener/reader. I don’t have words to mention even an alphabet of his epics. Listing some of my favorites from Gulzar saab.. Happy Birthday Sir!
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‘Tumhaare ghum ki dali utha kar, zubaan pe rakh li hai dekho maine..
Ye katra-katra pighal rahi hai, main katra –katra hi jee rahaa hoon.’
- Marasim -
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‘Dopehren aisi lagti hain , bina mohron ke khaali khane rakhe hain..
Na koi khelne wala hai baazi, na koi chaal chalta hai!
- Raincoat -
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‘Saara din sadkon pe khaali rikshe sa..peeche peecha chalta hai’
-Satya -
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‘Ae maut tu ek kavita hai’ ( Anand)
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And innumerable others!!
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