Masquerade !

“masked scarlet and cloaked … what mystery lies … that sometimes hides … in the corner of thy lips … and sometimes shines elsewhere … as a sparkle in the eyes … does the wind that dishevels thy hair … and the sun … Continue reading →

पापा

गर्मियों की छुट्टियाँ थीं
सवेरे का पहला पहर था
धुप अभी नर्म थी
सुनेहरा, दिन का रंग था
याद मुझे है अभ भी
वो आपकी बड़ी सी उँगली 

पकड़कर तब
चला मैं जिसे था

सुलाते थे मुझको उठाकर जब आप
कंधे पर तब आपके सर रख कर जब
ओढकर बिछौना आपके हातों का तब
कभी मम्मी कोई लोरी
गाती थी जब
कभी जब कोई कहानी
सुनाते थे आप
याद है मुझे अभ भी
कितनी सुकून की नींद
मुझे आती थी तब
…
…

My iPod

             nano.
There it is in the pix.
Black, 16GB with a 5 MP video camera.

Ah, Voila!

 

the Sunshine

and the Shade beneath thy locks

cordiale et a la fois sensuelle meme

 

se coucher sur l’herbe

la chaleur de la beaute se cache …

 

lost in a far away glance or

somewhere in the folds at the corner

of half-smiling lips

is all the warmth of the sun …

 

about those lovely lips or

somewhere in those dreamy eyes,

live & dance

all the colours of the sun

some thoughts

not mine, but from the movie Bawarchi

 

महाकवी हरीन्द्रनाथ अक्सर कहा करते थे …

रघु, ज़िन्दगी में छोटी छोटी चीज़ें बहुत मायने रखती हैं.

किसी बड़ी ख़ुशी के इंतज़ार में हम ये छोटी छोटी खुशियों के मौके खो देते हैं.

अरे, बड़ी कुशी के मौके तो दस बीस होते हैं, लेकिन यह जो हज़ारों लाखों कुशियों के पल हैं उन्हें हम गवा देतें हैं.

 

It is so simple to be happy, but so difficult to be simple.

 

***

 

A wonderful movie.

Setting: Shanti Nivas

winter

Hey, pause for a while …

 

Behold!
Not far, the winter treads

the leaves are shed like a carpet laid
Soon the earth, the sky will be just white and gray
… she rules
as far as you can see

The denizens reach out skywards

to catch the warmth
of the ever elusive sun
to nourish their frozen saps

As the sun shines past the clouds
they say … let us thaw a little …
and they reach out
to savour
the rare pleasures of touch
… the touch of warmth

What a Peace of Luck!

 

The winner of the nobel peace prize for the year 2009 is …

Yes. We all know now. Barrack Obaamaa.
The joke of the year – Nobel Peace Prize 2009.

Nobel Peace Prize for a man heading a country which is fighting wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran! It makes the award itself insignificant and mocks the institution.
There are some questions. What is the criteria for the award? Is it possible that certain Noble Prizes are awarded for political reasons? What is the point of awarding the prize to Obama? What are his achievements?

Obama may have been a good choice for being nominated for the TIMES Man-of-the-Year Award in December 2009. But Nobel Peace Prize! There must be something to this error in judgement, or else how could it happen so many times over in the awarding of a prize relating to work for PEACE.

Al Gore – was it as a compensation to having lost the Presidential election? Otherwise what has Climate Change got to do with peace. Al Gore should have been given the BBC World Challenge Award 2007 not the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nelson Mandela – for having spent 27 years in prison? How was he instrumental in ending apartheid in SA, sitting in a prison? Yes he was peaceful all the 27 years. It was not the personal initiatives of Mr. Mandela and Mr. de Klerk that ended apartheid in SA. It were the circumstances that compelled them to. It was not an individual here who was responsible for founding democracy in SA. The democratic movement had that strength.

I am sure, there are many more examples.
And I am sure there is a better explanation to this announcement in the category of Peace.