चाँद पे ले चलो यार मेरे 

नदियों का झिलमिल पानी 

ये सुनहरे बादलों की सेज पे सवार 

ले चलो कहीं दूर यार मेरे। 

भीगे पत्तों से टपकता बारिश का पानी 

मिट्टी की सौंधी खुशबू महकाती हर सांस को 

सूरज ढलने को है राज़ी 

चाँद पे ले चलो यार मेरे। 

तारों से करेंगे पहेलियाँ 

सपनों से करेंगे यारी 

धीरे से रात कट जाएगी यह 

पलकें होंगी भारी भारी 

चाँद पे ले चलो यार मेरे। 

खेलेंगे ख़यालो से लुका छुपी 

फुरसत की गठरी रख कर सर पे 

कर लो तैयारी यार मेरे 

चाँद पे ले चलो यार मेरे। 

Note: These lines are inspired by the song "Indian Summer" by Jai Wolf.

The End of the F***ing World

So I just ended up watching an entire  8 episode series in one sitting. It’s named as “End of the F***ing World”. The series is a teenage drama but it stayed with me all along the entire time I watched it, so much so that I wrote this little piece right after I ended up watching the last and the final episode of this Netflix original drama.

This is not a spoiler neither does this write up qualifies entirely to be a review of the show.So assume,its neither a spoiler nor a review . Today was one of my low days. You know some of those few days when you feel you just want to leave everything and probably don’t have a plan for a  little while or maybe just don’t do anything at all. Well I was technically working from home and I did try to finish up some pending work but this show just stuck with me and I couldn’t stop once I started watching it.

Two teenagers ,uprooted family backgrounds, the guy supposedly a psychopath and the girl with unresolved anger. All of it sounds like a sad and a gloomy drama. It was more than that about the show which made it unique and compelling enough for me to pen down my thoughts about it.How two unknown people with similar backgrounds come close to each other and save each other is the underlying theme of the plot all through the entire show. The soundtrack of the show is also to look out for.

I guess we all need a James or an Alyssa in our lives after all right?Someone to save us from the world and from ourselves when things sometimes don't seem to work out the way you wanted or thought of.Someone to cuddle with in the middle of the night.Someone to help you feel things and feelings you never felt or you though you could never feel.Someone to feel free with and to be truly yourself with at the same time.James and Alyssa make an intriguing,weirdly odd yet a comfortable couple who tend to grow on you over time during the course of the show.I loved the show and though I said earlier,this is not a review but I would definitely recommend watching this one.

Ps: Do listen to the song “Hard feelings” by Lorde with editing of certain memorable scenes of the show and the track “Laughing on the outside” by Bernadette Carrol once you are done watching the show

￰शबनम से नाज़ुक उसकी  हथेलियों की गर्माहट को महसूस  तो किया पर उसकी आँखों मैं वह इखलास  ना दिखा  जो  किसी ज़माने  मैं हुआ  करता  था .
वक़्त  ने  कुछ इस कदर  महरूम  किया
जब खाना बदोश  फिरते  थे  उसकी तलाश  में
उसने अपने ज़ेहन  से हमारे  मरासिम  को कुछ ऐसा  दरकिनार  किया ...
अब  पाके  भी उसको  खो  सा  चुका हूँ  मैं  .....

Optimists vs Pessimists

The optimist

Isn't it  joyful?                                                                              

How our grandparents and parents are aging so gracefully.

The once famous couple of our class are now happily married and parents to not one but two lovely children.

While some of us are okay taking smaller steps in life and enjoying the marvels of technology by watching some of the best shows created by the talented minds of entertainment industry.

Work is getting more challenging.

Bosses are getting involved more than before.

Dimmer vision can be corrected by a single surgery.

Medical advancements for hair treatments and a younger and fuller skin

Life is more organised, more scheduled and more disciplined.

This dicipline culminates to the monthly credit messages in the account which pays the EMI's and the bills.

Salaries are more and more is always better isint it?

Newer phones and newer dresses

Now "New" is the constant .

People laugh,explore,enjoy and they share all that on the social media.

It helps you connect,imagine,explore and broaden your horizon to experience something different and varied.

This "so called race" is not a race.It's a journey where each one is allowed to have their own pace.You can walk fast or you can walk slow but the motive is to keep on walking because stopping is not what is appreciated.Stopping is giving up.Would you like to give up on life just like that?

Definations of happiness have changes but essence remains the same

Times gets tougher but tough makes you stronger

Memories getting shorter but livelier.

Life forcing you to not just be alive  but also to live life.

Experience things,emotions,places,people like never before like our forefathers couldn't and embrace the uncertainties with courage and defiance

Life completes a full circle.

The pessimist

Isn't it sad?

How our parents and grandparents are getting older 

The once proclaimed school lovers in our class are now parents to two children

While some of us are still busy binge watching the latest season of the "over-hyped" television series over the weekend

Deadlines at work getting stiffer

Bosses turning bossier

Vision turning dimmer

Receding hairlines and that deadly day of spotting the first strand of grey hair

Hitting the gym,hitting the shower,eat and in the car

The 12 hours of corporate slavery which ends up in your bank account at the end of the month.

The new iPhone, the new dress

 A new chaos and a new mess

That friend on the Facebook with a BMW

And that one with a posh bunglow

Or the one who takes a vacation to exotic locations every year

The ones who calm down and put their feet down are left behind...

This race this great competitive human race of defeating each other leads us to different destinations...

It leaves some of us on to the heights of the corporate ladders where the ambitious exhilaration gives them pleasure

The others who are unable to balance on this ladder either fall down and succumb to the injuries while those

 

ahead don't even turn back to give them a helping hand and those who do get the helping hand pull those so called helpers down to go ahead...

The time moved faster than anything in this world 

Memories get shorter

Times get tougher

And those ahead in this mad race find themselves left alone for once in life.

Life takes two half circles.

है आरज़ूओं की कश्ती मेरी हिचकोले खा रही ,

बस सुकून की आस थी दिल में दबी। 

अब आये हो आंखों में प्यार लेके ,लंबे इंतेज़ार के बाद 

सुकून या जुनून की है ये आस दबी दिल में ,में समझ न सकी। 

किसी पुरानी गज़ल में सुना था ,

किसी पुरानी गज़ल में सुना था ,

"रंजिश ही सही ,दिल दुखने के लिए आ ,आ फिर से मुझे छोड़ जाने के लिए आ। "

खफा हो तो भले पल भर के लिए दूर चले जाना ,

लेकिन आये हो तो छोड़ जाने की बात ज़ेहन में भी न लाना। 

रंजिश तो बैरो से करते हैं ,आये तो अपना बनाने के लिए आ। 

इस नादां  दिल की हर खता पे ,

दिल दुखने के लिए नहीं ,दिल अपनाने के लिए आ। 

Draupadi

भ्रमाण्ड जहाँ ,विस्तार वहाँ 

थी द्वापर युग की यह नारी। 

शालीन थी वो ,मूरत अत्यंत  सुन्दरता की ,कहलाती थी वो पांचाली। 

द्रौपदी जनि ,हुई लौ से उत्पन्न 

आई थी करने कुरु वंश का नाश। 

भर के औरत्व की आभा सारी ,पांच पतियों की थी प्यारी,

परन्तु पतियों ने बाटी इसकी लज्जा सारी।

सरेआम हुआ था चीरहरण ,

कान्हा की परम सखी ,ली कान्हा की शरण। 

मन से था प्रेम अर्जुन से अपार ,

कर दिया था उसने कर्ण को इंकार। 

रंग रूप और अभिमान  तो थे  उसके चरित्र के बस कुछ  अंश ,बनी पांच पुत्रो की वह माता 

अनसुनी सी ,अनकही सी थी उसकी गाथा। 

Yeh saal...2015..!

गैरों से घिरना कभी पसंद ना था ,आज अपनो से मिलना भी थोड़ा अजीब सा लगता है। 

अकेलेपन में  ना जाने क्यों मुझे सुकून सा मिलता है। 

खुद से बातें करने वालो को लोग पागल समझा करते हैं ,

खुद से  बातें करना ,यूँ  पन्नों पे खुद को शब्दों में समेट लेना  अच्छा  सा लगता है। 

जो पल तन्हाई के लगते थे बेगाने ,आज उन पलों को हथेलियों में सहेजना सीख लिया मैंने। 

कोई चाहने वाला मिल  जाये ,इस खोज में कब खुद को इस कदर चाहने लगी 

क़ि खुद की चाहत में किसी का खलल अब सही सा  नहीं लगता । 

यह साल आज बीत जायेगा ,एक नयी उमंग के साथ नया साल खड़ा है मेरी चौखट पर 

दुसरो के साथ जीने की ख्वाइश से ज्यादा ,खुद  जीना सीख सा लिया है मैंने।