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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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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Rush

is amazing! Be it Different Strings, or 2112 or Tears.. totally rocking!
I so don’t want to work today. Total productivity of the day: 0.0001%
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Violin

Violin is a great instrument. There is something about it, something in the shrill noise, the crying notes, the drawn out sound of the violin that makes it poignant. More so than any other instrument i have heard. Others of the family, the viola, or the Cello have a stronger bass tone and so while they [...]

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Phishing the Winter term

Starting today the race to the finish has begun. It is a race to get a great internship as soon as possible and start having fun. In that quest, and for need of better planning, i am spending time studying global economics. It is an interesting subject and while the theory covered so far is previously familiar, [...]

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Ae Ajnabi – O stranger: Translation for a beautiful song.

On a translation spree, I have attempted a poetical translation to this beautiful poetry by Gulzaar sa’ab. Again, English doesn’t do justice to the poetry; but oh so true:
Aye ajnabi tu bhi kabhi aawaaz de kahin se
Main yahan tukdon mein jee raha hoon
Tu kahin tukdon mein jeen rahi hai
Roz roz resham si hawa aate jaate [...]

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A million wishes such – reprise: The ghazal by Mirza Ghalib.

A poor attempt to translate the feelings behind this beautiful ghazal by Mirza Ghalib. English cannot capture the intricacies of Urdu.

हज़ारों ख्ह्वाहिशें ऐसी की हर ख्ह्वाइश पे दम निकले
बहुत निकले मेरे अर्मां लेकिन फिर भी कम निकले

निकलना खुल्द से आदम का सुनते आये हैं लेकिन
बहुत बेआबरू होकर तेरे कूचे से हम निकले

मुहब्बत में नहीन है [...]

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Protected: Songs

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Hamari Sanson mein — Noorjahan

हमारी सांसौं मैं आज तक वोह हीना की खुश्भू मॆहक रही है
लबोन पे नग्मे मचल रहे है
नज़र से मस्ती झलक रही है

वोह मेरे नज़्दीक आते आते हया से इक दिन सिमट गये थे
मेरे खयालों में आज तक
वोह बदन कि डाली लटक रही है

सदा जो दिल से निकल रही है वोह शेर-ओ-नघ्मों मै ढल रही है
के [...]

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