meri bezabaaN aaNkhoN se gire haiN chand katre,
wo samajh sakeiN to aaNsoo...
na samajh sake to paani
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jo aake ruke daaman pe 'sabaa' wo ashq nahiN hai paani hai
jo ashq na chhalke aankhoN se us ashq ki keemat hoti hai
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I'm not writing this in a sad mood. These two ghazals happened to occur consecutively in the playlist and I was wondering at the brilliant lyrics.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
God's in His heaven and all's right with the world!
I've shamelessly copied the title from one of Bertie Wooster's lines, but I don't think anobody will mind. Well, I say so because everything in the past week has turned out as I had wished. The Brazilian GP went smoothly for Alonso and the Renault team who secured the driver and constructors' crowns yet again, Federer won the Madrid Masters and Sharapova won the Zurich Open, India won its first match in the Champions Trophy. What more can I ask for?
Schumacher ended his career in style. He was unlucky not being able to make it to the podium, but it was a brilliant performance nevertheless. His hunger to win remained insatiable till the end in spite of 7 world titles. It was slightly ironic that his streak ended at the hands of a Renault driver (Renault was formed by taking over Benetton, the team with whom Schumacher won his first title).
On a different note, 'Seven Years in Tibet' is turning out to be a very good book. A must read for any travel-book lover. This is my second book about Tibet. The first one was Vikram Seth's 'From Heaven Lake'. This one presents a different picture of Tibet, before being taken over by China, when the Dalai Lama was still the God-King in the Potala palace. Some day, I wish to visit the forbidden city of Lhasa.
Anyway, enough daydreaming.
Schumacher ended his career in style. He was unlucky not being able to make it to the podium, but it was a brilliant performance nevertheless. His hunger to win remained insatiable till the end in spite of 7 world titles. It was slightly ironic that his streak ended at the hands of a Renault driver (Renault was formed by taking over Benetton, the team with whom Schumacher won his first title).
On a different note, 'Seven Years in Tibet' is turning out to be a very good book. A must read for any travel-book lover. This is my second book about Tibet. The first one was Vikram Seth's 'From Heaven Lake'. This one presents a different picture of Tibet, before being taken over by China, when the Dalai Lama was still the God-King in the Potala palace. Some day, I wish to visit the forbidden city of Lhasa.
Anyway, enough daydreaming.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Kal chaudhvin ki raat thi...
Shab bhar raha charcha tera,
Kuchh ne kaha ye chand hai,
Kuchh ne kaha...
Chehra tera
The moon looks really beautiful tonight. I find it a little hard to believe that it is nothing but a normal celestial body. It can't be just another pebble in the debris that makes up our universe. The moon is special. Every night, I crane my neck, force my head out through the gap in the grill to take a look and it never disappoints me. All its forms, be it the slender curve or the full moon, have a beauty of their own. Even when you can't see it, because it is covered by the clouds, its soft glow lights up a part of the sky. Though hidden it may be, but it is always going to be there. Nothing can change that.
I am reminded of the full moon night a few years back. It was a night trek. We had started from Maheshwar at about 10pm and the plan was to reach Sahastradhara, where the Narmada breaks into a thousand little streams, by daybreak. When we came close to the river, we stopped and lay down on the ground.
The view of the sky in all its grandeur with a full moon and millions of stars with the faint music of the river falling on our ears is unforgettable. A little distance away was the river, its waters shining in the moonlight. There were stars above and stars below me, and I felt like I was floating in between.
If space travel becomes cheap in the coming few decades, and if people start going to space for vacations, I don't think I'd like to go to the moon. I'm afraid that it'll be a let down. Only grey dust and barren land. From here, it is an object of beauty. On the other hand maybe I'll find out how beautiful our earth looks from space. I've only heard of the blue and green ball seen by astronauts. I'm sure it'll be a sight worth a thousand moons.
Kuchh ne kaha ye chand hai,
Kuchh ne kaha...
Chehra tera
The moon looks really beautiful tonight. I find it a little hard to believe that it is nothing but a normal celestial body. It can't be just another pebble in the debris that makes up our universe. The moon is special. Every night, I crane my neck, force my head out through the gap in the grill to take a look and it never disappoints me. All its forms, be it the slender curve or the full moon, have a beauty of their own. Even when you can't see it, because it is covered by the clouds, its soft glow lights up a part of the sky. Though hidden it may be, but it is always going to be there. Nothing can change that.
I am reminded of the full moon night a few years back. It was a night trek. We had started from Maheshwar at about 10pm and the plan was to reach Sahastradhara, where the Narmada breaks into a thousand little streams, by daybreak. When we came close to the river, we stopped and lay down on the ground.
The view of the sky in all its grandeur with a full moon and millions of stars with the faint music of the river falling on our ears is unforgettable. A little distance away was the river, its waters shining in the moonlight. There were stars above and stars below me, and I felt like I was floating in between.
If space travel becomes cheap in the coming few decades, and if people start going to space for vacations, I don't think I'd like to go to the moon. I'm afraid that it'll be a let down. Only grey dust and barren land. From here, it is an object of beauty. On the other hand maybe I'll find out how beautiful our earth looks from space. I've only heard of the blue and green ball seen by astronauts. I'm sure it'll be a sight worth a thousand moons.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Sounds I Hate
1. The sound of the tt ball whe it does not hit the table.
2. The sound of nails or any sharp object on a metalic surface.
3. A child crying.
4. Himesh Reshammiya's songs.
5. The ding when an error message is shown in windows.
6. The sound when your car hits some tiny little thing at the end of a drift and you lose all the n-thousand points earned. NFS can be very frustrating at times.
7. The sound created when I move the bow across the strings of Smiley's violin.
There are many more which I can't recall.
Well, there's good news, Neon is back to blogging and there's bad news, I'm going to take a break. In the past week I clicked the new post button 2-3 times. But when this screen appeared I couldn't think of anything to write.
On a different note, the F1 season is nearing a very exciting end. With Alonso and Schumacher tied with maximum points, the last 2 races promise a lot of action.
Sharapova won the US Open! So did Federer. Yet another time. It was good that he didn't have to face Nadal in the final. He brings in that little window of uncertainty. But Roddick has shown some real improvement. I think Connors is the right coach for him. Hopfeully Roddick will show the hunger and competetiveness that his coach was known for in his playing days.
The title to this post is quite inappropriate. But I'm too lazy to change it to something better. 'Yet another update post' would've been more correct. I was trying to avoid writing such posts. Anyway, who cares? I'll be back when I actually have something to write.
2. The sound of nails or any sharp object on a metalic surface.
3. A child crying.
4. Himesh Reshammiya's songs.
5. The ding when an error message is shown in windows.
6. The sound when your car hits some tiny little thing at the end of a drift and you lose all the n-thousand points earned. NFS can be very frustrating at times.
7. The sound created when I move the bow across the strings of Smiley's violin.
There are many more which I can't recall.
Well, there's good news, Neon is back to blogging and there's bad news, I'm going to take a break. In the past week I clicked the new post button 2-3 times. But when this screen appeared I couldn't think of anything to write.
On a different note, the F1 season is nearing a very exciting end. With Alonso and Schumacher tied with maximum points, the last 2 races promise a lot of action.
Sharapova won the US Open! So did Federer. Yet another time. It was good that he didn't have to face Nadal in the final. He brings in that little window of uncertainty. But Roddick has shown some real improvement. I think Connors is the right coach for him. Hopfeully Roddick will show the hunger and competetiveness that his coach was known for in his playing days.
The title to this post is quite inappropriate. But I'm too lazy to change it to something better. 'Yet another update post' would've been more correct. I was trying to avoid writing such posts. Anyway, who cares? I'll be back when I actually have something to write.
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