Favicon

WordPress has a new feature called blavatar: or Blog + Avatar. Reading about it, i decided to make my own. What you see on your URL bar and the tab (if you have one) is my blavatar or favicon as the main street puts it. For the record, the original picture (showed to the right) [...]

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All time favorite list

I saw Slumdog Millionaire today. A very well made movie – and in the tradition of all Bollywood stories, it is a rags to riches, fairy tale stuff. The story of a poor kid borne in the slums of Mumbai, going through some terrible tragedies, eventually reaching the final stages of “Kaun Banega Crorepati” – [...]

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What Any lover learns

I have been sitting around my house, in a funk and somehow started to look through my emails. I subscribe to a mailing list called The Wondering Minstrels; in its heyday, the administrators used to send a new poem every day. The last update was in January 2006.

So, while browsing through my emails, I came [...]

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Pink Floyd

Floyd may be dead. Long live Pink Floyd. BBC reports that Richard Wright died of cancer at 65. It is a sad day for prog rock but Wright would live on to the tunes of Echoes and The great gig in the sky.
~*~

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There are tears in my eyes

I posted the lyrics of this beautiful Ghazal here, and I felt that a translation is needed and after having failed yesterday, today I have tried – here it is then, with due poetic liberties. Hope you would like it and feel the sorrow of the poet.
There are tears in my eyes
There is woe on [...]

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कभी पल्कॊ पे आन्सू हैं

Another beautiful song from the stable of Kishore Kumar. Lyrics, in Hindi for your pleasure, I had thought about translating this into English, but i couldn’t do justice and so i will not try and mutilate a work of art..
मुख्डा:
कभी पल्कॊ पे आन्सू हैं
कभि लब पे शिकायत हैं
मगर ऐ ज़िन्दगि फिर भि
मुझे तुझ से मौहब्बत [...]

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Chagrined

When you left, you took more
Than what you thought;
It was not just my love
But all my love and my peace too
Why did you have to go?
Were our steps never in rhyme
Were my eyes too high, my step too slow?
And now that you are not here
I look for you in the women i meet,
Verily they disappoint, [...]

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A Fine Balance

I have just about finished reading “A Fine Balance”, an excellent novel by Rohinton Mistry. Mr. Mistry writes the story of four individuals who come together for a brief period during the Emergency in India. Two of these individuals are unrelated Parsis while the other two are related individuals, members of the so called ‘Untouchable’ [...]

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World Music

I am reading “A house for Mr. Biswas” – a book written by V. S. Naipaul set in Trinidad & Tobago in 1920s. Interesting book, the protagonist, Mr. Biswas is portrayed as an incompetent buffoon and reminded me of my friend Biswas (full name to be not revealed, but my EP class-mates would know). Anyhow, [...]

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कभी कभी

कभी कभी मेरे दिल मैं ख्याल आता हैं
कि ज़िंदगी तेरी जुल्फों कि नर्म छांव मैं गुजरने पाती
तो शादाब हो भी सकती थी।
यह रंज-ओ-ग़म कि सियाही जो दिल पे छाई हैं
तेरी नज़र कि शुओं मैं खो भी सकती थी।
मगर यह हो न सका और अब ये आलम हैं
कि तू नहीं, तेरा ग़म तेरी जुस्तजू भी नहीं।
गुज़र [...]

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