सच्चाई का आइना

Reading about the recent gangrape case in delhi, I have lost all faith in our bureaucratic system. Its time we, the women stood up for ourselves and took steps to make our country safe for us. Lost in contemplation I penned down a few lines, dedicated to that unfortunate girl....


कुछ आशियाने उसने भी बनाये
सपनो की उस दुनिया
को उसने भी सजाया
उम्मीदों से आशायों  से
कुछ अभिलाशायों  से
कुछ आकांशाओं से।
परी  कथायों की वो दुनिया
लगी उसे कितनी सयानी कितनी सुनहरी .
सचाई से घबराती
वास्तविकता को इन्कारती
छुप सी गई दुनिया में वो अपनी .
भोली सी पगली सी
समझ ना पाई
कटता नही जीवन सपनो में
कटता है वो यहीं
तरल जमीन पर
सुलगती धूप, ठिठुरती ठंड में।
तू भाग नही सकती, तू भूल नही सकती
सच्चाई के आईना से तू छुप नही सकती।
निगल ले कुचल ले
आज तू सामना तो कर ले।
दुर्गा का अवतार तू
ज्वाला का प्रचार तू
उठा आज तलवार तू
समय है आज नाश का
समय है विनाश का।
तू ही है जननी तू ही है विनाश्कारिणी।
जब जब पाप है छाया
तूने अपना प्रज्वलित रूप है दिखाया
नष्ट कर उन कुकर्मियों  का
दुनिया जिसने तेरी बिगाड़ी
समय है तेरा
समय है तेरी सपनो की दुनिया का

Well its been days since I wrote something here….not that I was busy ,just that I wasn’t getting anything to write on. And then I realized how fast time changes, one day I literally have to choose from a myriad of topics and the next day I have nothing to write on. Sadly, this is applicable to all parts of our life. One day you are best friends and the next day you don’t even acknowledge the prescence of that person. This is something over which you have no control. Sometimes the circumstances are such that how much ever you want to set things straight, you just can’t. How much ever you feel that things are in your control, they are not and the reality is painful. In life you meet people with whom you share your deepest secrets and beliefs, and if you don’t get the trust of those people , it hurts, it hurts bad. People say that love is great, to those people I say, friendship is greater. Friends are people with whom you share moments of life, moments that will be cherished forever, and if friends leave you , the soul loses something, the pain and fire melt you from inside. You can face the worst days of your life with your close ones, but if these same people leave you , you have no one to share the pain with. An empty void is what is left in your life, with nobody to fill it with happiness and hope. When loneliness and sadness become your companion, material benefits don’t even figure in your life. But as they say, the show must go on. So how much ever melancholy your life might seem, you have to move ahead and give life another chance. Life is all about learning. Take this as a lesson of your life. Feel the positive vibrations around you. Soak into them, let them energise you and welcome the new you. Do what you like, make yourself the most important person in your life for a change. Pamper yourself. Let the warmth of hope make the draught of despair disappear.The blessedness of life will become apparent only if you have faced the rough times. So, make this thought your mantra and you will never have to curse your life  


P.S : dis is my first attempt at philosophy. do tell hwz it :) :)

सिलसिले

धुंदली सी धूप में
कुछ अधूरे अक्षरो की छवि
झिलमिलाने लगी
नन्ही सी
कुछ बूंदो में
बावरे से मन में उठी
कवी की कुछ पंक्तियाँ
पंखो  की आहट लिए
आई  कोई कोकिला
सिलसिले से है जुड़ी
ऐसी ही कुछ जिन्दगानिया
तुम मुझसे पूछो
मैं तुमसे पुछू
कुछ पन्क्तियो की लडिया
ये बताओ
शब्दो की इन डोर में
कैसे उलझ गये
आज हम तुम
और उलझ गयी
ये जिन्दगानिया

Truth about Evil

I have been a bit confused lately. Last week I read the first two books of the Shiva Trilogy, Immortals of Meluha and Secret of the Nagas. First of all , excellent books, perhaps the best I have read since Harry Potter, do read. In the book Lord Shiva has come to destroy the evil, quite simple for the Mahadev except for one little detail, he does not know what is evil. His definition keeps changing with the people around him. This whole thing was causing a bit of a turbulence in my head and what really hit the nail hard was when we were asked in my class to classify some qualities into virtue and vice and I realized that the definition of virtue and vice varies a lot from person to person. So how does one decide? How does one define evil? And more importantly how does one know which of the many definitions of evil is true. Evil is anything that we believe is wrong or immoral, but what happens when that belief itself changes. Does the concept of evil change or we ourself go over to the evil side? Is the concept of what is evil fixed and same since time immemorial or is it dynamic, changing with the changing circumstances? Ravan is considered evil but we all know that he was a great scholar, Parshuram is not considered evil even though he was violent, is it because Ravan went against Lord Ram who for us is an epitome of an ideal man and Parshuram bowed down in front of Lord Shiva. Is here our definition of evil not affected by what we consider not evil? Evil is relative. What might be evil for me might not be evil for you, so how does one say in absoluteness what is evil. How does one classify what is virtue and what is vice. I don't think there is any universal answer for all these questions, the only thing that we can do is keep our minds and hearts open. Let the changing circumstances change our beliefs if they can and most importantly not let our definitions be changed by others. There is no black and white in this world, there is only grey. So go ahead find your own shade and the truth about evil.

The notion of freedom

The vacations are on and I am at home! Totally free, having nothing to do. Strange thing is that those things which I so much adored to do when I had to study do not seem to charm me now. Whether it be watching movies, serials, 9gaging, the list does not end here, it goes on to include even something as attractive as sleeping, oh yes, I donot feel like sleeping much nowdays. Wondering if its just me or is this the case with everyone. So this brings us to what am I actually doing these past days, I do watch a movie now and then ( for those who don't know me well, I am the kind of person who watches 3-4 movies per day, so now and then, is, strange ). I have always had a thing for rom-coms and chick flicks, so I have been watching those kinds of movies a lot lately. One of those is "Chasing Liberty", I chanced to watch it on tv and found it something that most of us can relate to even though its about the US president's daughter. On the outside, its a really stupid movie but then if you see it, like me, even you might feel like been there kinds. Its about a girl chasing her freedom ( the movie title...yeah that is double meaning...one of those is these, for the other one, watch the movie ;) ). She is never allowed to be herself, do whatever she wants, roam about and enjoy life in her own way. And then suddenly I realise, isn't this the case with many of us, parental restrictions, societal restrictions, damn, there are restrictions all around us. Are we in the true sense, master of our choice? Are we really doing what we want? Do we have the freedom of thought, speech in the true sense? For a country who takes pride in saying that we have won our freedom (no disrespect to the freedom fighters in any way) , we surely have not been able to maintain that. From a simple school girl who cannot voice her opinions in front of her friends and family to a mature grown up person, who cannot voice his/her opinions for fear of society, the true freedom, the freedom of thought and speech is just an illusion that we have created to soothe our egos. But we are living in a clam shell, we are living our life by rules whereas life should be lived like a bird which can go wherever it wants without restrictions. Our life is our own, we should not live it under the shadow of some real life figure or by the unsaid rules of the vague notion of society. We make the society, the society merely shows us what the majority want, what the majority are doing, it in no sense should be the guiding map of our choices. Getting influenced by our surroundings is different, following the majority without thinking is what I am talking about here. Lets voice our opinions, bring our thoughts to the forefront, for a change do what we like to do, what we want to do. Let us for a change, let our innerself loose. Let us for a change, live life :) :) :)

Random Ramblings

Oh yes, I am back! After all its exam time and I need some place to empty my mind ( whatever little there is in it anyway ;) ) A place to ramble on and on, and yes if I later care about what people might make out of the crappy stuff in my thoughts, I might just disable the comments :D I love how I can control the way things work here but back there in the real world, things are not so easy ( damn >.< ) There people comment on everything, whether or not it is their business or not, but then those are the kind of people none of us should care about. They show so much interest because they find our life way more interesting than theirs can ever be :D :D

Its CCS exam day after tomorrow and because people have already prepared for it, they are now preparing for the ultra boring subject SEN ( for those of you who had the good luck and better judgement of not getting into engineering , its acronym for software engineering) . But I am way too mainstream for doing that :P ( more like lazy :P ), so here I am posing my tidbits on this awesome platform. Also Mom, dad and di are enjoying in mumbai without me ( >.< ), its not like I miss them or anything, but come on, its mumbai :'( ( for those of you who are unaware of my infatuation with the city, do check out some of my earlier posts, sorry for not posting the links, as you might have guessed, I am super lazy :D) . Well all is not wrong on that front, I will be visiting my favourite city in the winters :D :D 

Oh yeah, you people must have read the reviews of Rockstar by now or might have even seen it >.< ( damn the exams >.< ). What spine chilling music the movie has man! Totally in love with nadan parinde and kun faya kun <3 <3 <3. 

Oh btw did I tell you people about this really cool and hilarious site 9gag.com, now before you think I have ventured into publicity management and stuff, do check it out. Its really awesome, the memes and stick figures their depict our emotions like nothing else. Plus if you venture into the dark lands of sarcasm now and then like me and are  still learning the tricks from the masters, do pay the site a visit ;) .

And yes, I am a big procastinator, but now I guess I should get back to studies :'( Wish me luck :) :)

I will be back soon!!

Doom

A storm so furious

razed the homes

and threw the trees

like ragged dolls

A blinding flash

lashed on the mortals

by the immortal himself

sign of his fury

A torrential rain

making a mockery

of elixir of life

going on endlessly

A ravaging wind

blowing away

the shreds of hope

reciding in your heart

All you creations of god

a harbinger of doom it is

harbinger of times

when all that there will be

is darkness

All you creations of god

his wrath will end it all.

a ball of flame

and then ashes all around......