Nov 3, 2009

और हम चाहते भी है...

कोशिश जरी है,
कदम अग्रसर है,
धुन्दती आखें नमी कुशी की है,
वक्त है जो ये ज्हकम भी भर देगा अगर हम चाहे तो,
और हम चाहते भी है.

This was inspired as a response to the comment in incomplete... :) thanks for the positivity

Oct 28, 2009


Oct 23, 2009

Incomplete

इतनी भीड़ में भी है तनहाई
इतनी आवाज़ में भी है खोमाशी
कितनी रहे है पर मंजिल फ़िर भी नही
सब है उन्ही रहो के रही पर हमसफ़र नही
चहरे कितने पर आखों में वो अपनापन नही
दोस्त कितने है पर शुब्चिन्तक नही

Aug 10, 2009


May 15, 2009


Apr 19, 2009

Pathetic journalism

Women’s groups protest newspaper report on rape case via Hindu

I am wondering what kind of sickness does the society have to to want to read the details of rape or identity of a rape victim. I am saying this cause mumbai mirror must have thought this to be masala article to sell its pages of so called newspaper. Would you want to read about some gory murder details... in newspaper. A newspaper is read by all age groups all strats of society... the definition of news is changing so fast that some how it does not remain news anymore. The so called news channel, the so called newspapers what do they have? What do they reflect? What do they say?

What happened to news being a peice of information be worthy of mentioning? What happened to news article giving you just information and you being capable of making up your own mind about it?
What happened to news being unbaised?
What happened to news being facts?

Now to get the correct picture I have to read 10 differnet sources to see the bits that are overlapping and assume well that must be the true part of this entire news facade.

Apr 17, 2009


Apr 6, 2009

dastan jo adhuri rah jaye...
sapne jo pure na ho paye...
kyo dil na jane unpe aasu bhaye.
vo dastan nahi thi jismain apne the
vo sapne nahi the jinmain kushiya thi
fir kyo dil naye nahi saja paye.
kyo tham ke chalte hai kadam
kyo nahi hote pata bharosa firse

Apr 5, 2009

Makes you hold your head up and be proud

Miracle called 108 via the Pioneer

I was reading this article and I realized that this was not just an effective ambulance service but it reflected the need of the hour in India(or may be across the world). The catch line - “good souls with right values.” it is so every important. It is not just your technical skills that matter but it is your attitude that matters and it matters a lot. “If the attitude of an applicant is not okay, we don’t hire him.” Some how we are forgetting the importance or the need of being good human being. The importance of being kind or the importance of caring. And this article reminds us of important it is. We are all(I am referring to Indians) in our pursuit to be on the top are forgetting to be on the top of the list of being good humans. When did these values change? When did it become alright to be corrupt? We the nation that survives on providing service to the rest of the world forgot to service its own country. Our country is not falling behind because of lack of talent, or even lack of money or lack of entrepreneurship.... We are falling behind due to lack of character.
I am as proud an Indian as any one but we need to look at ourselves see where the change is needed instead of pride taking the first step then tripping over on its face.
India will change if elections are fought on providing services like these and maintaining the quality of it too. Why not fight election or real issues instead of silly fake propaganda.

Mar 30, 2009

Religion is an evolutionary adaptation

Born believers: How your brain creates God via New Scientist

Religious ideas are common to all cultures: like language and music, they seem
to be part of what it is to be human. Until recently, science has largely shied
away from asking why. "It's not that religion is not important," says Paul
Bloom, a psychologist at Yale University, "it's that the taboo nature of the
topic has meant there has been little progress."
The origin of religious
belief is something of a mystery, but in recent years scientists have started to
make suggestions. One leading idea is that religion is an evolutionary
adaptation that makes people more likely to survive and pass their genes onto
the next generation. In this view, shared religious belief helped our ancestors
form tightly knit groups that cooperated in hunting, foraging and childcare,
enabling these groups to outcompete others. In this way, the theory goes,
religion was selected for by evolution, and eventually permeated every human
society (New
Scientist, 28 January 2006, p 30)

The religion-as-an-adaptation theory
doesn't wash with everybody, however. As anthropologist Scott Atran of the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor points out, the benefits of holding such
unfounded beliefs are questionable, in terms of evolutionary fitness. "I don't
think the idea makes much sense, given the kinds of things you find in
religion," he says. A belief in life after death, for example, is hardly
compatible with surviving in the here-and-now and propagating your genes.
Moreover, if there are adaptive advantages of religion, they do not explain its
origin, but simply how it spread.

Mar 27, 2009

Though

The law of karma. To every action there is equal and opposite reaction. But the source of that reaction might differ. I guess I am trying to say is if I do good to you it might be the case that you may not do good to me, instead it will be someone else who will do that for me. And the reverse is I might not do bad to you but someone else will do that instead. Make sense... I think.

Mar 15, 2009

Quotes

Your whole life is a manifestation of the thoughts that go on in your mind.

If you see it in your mind, you're going to hold it in your hand.

-- The Secret (Book)

Mar 2, 2009


Feb 23, 2009


Quotes

It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions. ~Author Unknown

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
~Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken," 1916

Feb 19, 2009

Mera Thumara... (Song from "Socha Na Tha")

mera thumara kya rishta hai... kuch bhi nahi
agar kabhi tum guzarta dekho kya tum mujhe bulaogi... shayad nahi
agar jo fir hum kabhi na mile to kya tum yaad aaogi... nahi
kyo ki tum meri koi nahi main janta hu magar
ho jab meri koi nahi kyo lagti ho mujhko parayi nahi

jab bhi mile hum aisa laga fir, milege nahi
fir bhi na jane kisi bhahane milte gaye hum tum magar kahi na kahi
jab aaj koi nahi hai bhahana fir kyo thar jaye kadam yahi
ho tum kyo ki tum meri koi nahi main janta hu magar
ho jab meri koi nahi kyo lagti ho mujhko parayi nahi

ek ajnabee se itni na ki thi baatain kabhi
jo chaha dil ne kahta gaya main tumse koi bhi duri mujhe lagi na kabhi
pass thumare aaya tha kitne ye ahsas ho raha hai mujhe abhi
per tum meri koi nahi shayad mujhe hai yakeen
jab meri koi nahi kyo lagti ho mujhko parayi nahi

Feb 17, 2009


National awards.....??!?!?

National Awards: The ‘Secular’ Connection
by Saurav Basu via Boloji

This article brings out some harsh facts on the prestigious Bharat Ratan awards. How the rulling party makes a difference and how our leaders define how we look at the past... and who are the heroes?

Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award for national service. The order was established by Dr Rajendra Prasad, President of India, on January 2, 1954. Today, there are 41 Bharat Ratna winners in India, the last being Bhimsen Joshi. And yet, there are noticeable absentees. Mahatma Gandhi, the most conspicuous but since he was already elevated to the ‘father of the nation’, his posthumous soul automatically opted out of the race.

But there was no Sardar Patel either, the iron man of India until 1991, despite the fact that the provision to award the Bharat Ratna posthumously was enacted way back in 1955. This provision was probably made to confer the award on Sardar Patel. But Nehru’s profound ideological and personal differences with Patel came in the way.

and so the story goes....

Beatutiful

When Love Ceases
by Kojo Asiedu

As long as I live,
I pray never to beg for the love
Of those who proclaim to love me
And never to let those whom I love
Suffer to earn my love
For, as it is a privilege,
I know love ceases
When it has become an obligation


Feb 15, 2009

Thought

We have such different ways of interacting with people and sometimes even when we have best of intentions we mess up. Care too much, care too little, try too much, not try at all. How to fix it?
If only we knew ...

Feb 8, 2009

What makes Hinduism?

Today I was reading an article from a Muslim clergy stating that yoga was not 'haram'. It was a really good article. However, there is one line just one line that got me thinking about so many different things -
Yoga, according to Ashraf F. Nizami's book "Namaz, the Yoga of Islam" (published by D.B. Taraporevala, Mumbai 1977), is not a religion.
No I am not thinking about Islam and its teachings. I am thinking about 'Hinduism'. Somewhere along the line we have forgotten the fact that Hinduism is not a religion(link defining religion). What is even more worrying is we as Hindus do not realize this fact.
In this world today, when every is fighting for or against a religion I am scared the we have been type casted into one too. And for votes or power or money our leaders have accepted it too.
Hinduism is a way of life which allows you many paths (paths refer to technical definition of religion) to achieve your purpose in life. Being a Hindu - does equate to idle worship, nor to worship of many God's, not even to worship of one God.
You can be a Hindu and believe in One God.
You can be a Hindu and believe in Many God.
You can be a Hindu and believe in No God.
You can be a Hindu and believe in idle worship.
You can be a Hindu and believe in no idle worship.

Hinduism is a lot more that just a religion. It is respect for human life. It stands for equality of race, sex, religion, caste, status. It is far more complex then any one person can understand... And as it is with things that people do not understand instead of accepting that it is far beyond my understanding, we say well it this (however tiny, insignificant or even misinterpreted).
I always remember the story of the 5 blind people trying to feel the elephant to decide what it was. None on its own were correct but all put together was still a partial picture.

Instead of pretending to know it all let us make an effort to actually know atleast the partial picture.

Feb 5, 2009


Feb 3, 2009


Feb 2, 2009

Eyes reveal so much

Eyes reveal health secrets of the brain via New Scientist

THE eyes may be the windows to the soul, but they also make pretty good peepholes into the brain.


the opening line is too good... and so is the rest of the article

The technique works very much like ultrasound, but bounces light off the tissue instead of sound waves. One beam of light is fired at the tissue and another at a reference mirror. When the reflected beams have travelled an identical distance, interference will make their combined beam brighter than if the distances are different. So by reflecting one beam off of different layers of tissue, and moving the reference mirror until the combined reflected beam is brightest, the technique can measure the depths of each section of tissue and build up a detailed image of its structure. It has proved particularly useful in ophthalmology because the semi-transparent nature of retinal tissue makes it possible for OCT to penetrate to greater depths - up to several millimetres. When applied to the OND it can give information about both the shape and thickness of retinal nerve fibres, allowing even subtle changes to be tracked.

Feb 1, 2009

कोशिश

कुछ यादें भुलाने की
फिर से जी भर मुस्कुराने की
नए सपने सजाने की


koshish

kuch yadien bhulane ki
phir se ji bhar muskurane ki
naye sapne sajane ki

Winning something other than cricket ....

And below is one B'day gift i will like to share with everyone... I really wanted to see this match but this will do for now

Resutls page from Australian Open

Thanks a ton Oui

Bhupathi, Sania amble to maiden Grand Slam together via The Pioneer

It is good to see that we are winning something other than cricket... There was another juniors grand slam that we won recently i have to get to the info.

it isn't going to be so...

some days you wish to give up,
some days you wish not to be strong,
some days you wish others to take initiative to set things right,
some days you wish people understand not judge,
some days you wish friends to trust not ask,
some days you just wish

but then it isn't going to be so...

Jan 26, 2009


Jan 20, 2009