Letters

I have nowhere to send these letters..

and no reason to believe that you wish to receive them...

I write them only for myself..

and thus I will hide them away, with all the things unsaid and undone between us...

जो लहरों से आगे नज़र देख पाती तोह तुम जान लेते मैं क्या सोचता हूँ ,

वो आवाज़ तुमको भी जो भेद जाती तोह तुम जान लेते मैं क्या सोचता हूँ |

जिद का तुम्हारे जो पर्दा सरकता ,खिडकियों से आगे भी तुम देख पाते ,

आँखों से आदतों की जो पलकें हटाते तोह तुम जान लेते मैं क्या सोचता हूँ |

मेरी तरह होता अगर खुद पर ज़रा भरोसा तोह कुछ दूर तुम भी साथ -साथ आते ,

रंग मेरी आँखों का बाँटते ज़रा सा ,तोह कुछ दूर तुम भी साथ - साथ आते ,

नशा आसमान का जो चूमता तुम्हे , हसरतें तुम्हारी नया जन्म पातीं ,

खुद दुसरे जनम में मेरी उड़ान छूने कुछ दूर तुम भी साथ - साथ आते |

Do din ki zindagi ka mazaa humse puchhiye
Ik pal mein ik sadi ka mazaa humse puchhiye

Bhoole hain rafta rafta unko muddaton mein hum
Kiston mein khudkushi ka mazaa humse puchhiye

Jalte diyon mein jalte gharon jaisi zau kahaan
Sarkaar roshni ka mazaa humse puchhiye

Aaghaaz e aashiqi ka mazaa aap jaaniye
Anjaam e aashiqi ka mazaa humse puchhiye

Hansne ka shauq humko bhi thaa aap ki tarah
Hansiye magar hansee ka mazaa humse puchhiye

Spring is here ! First official shorts day was a few days ago.. I wish I had taken a picture but all I got is a picture taken last Summer in DC, by my good friend Danny. Hope he is doing well.

A Fool's game.

the worst thing is i know exactly how you feel and what you think inside your head.. the best part is that you feel I don't know a thing about it.. and thus we can both play those foolish games..The reason why i'm still in it ?.. is beyond me.

I don't know!

Socrates said that to say "I do not know", one needs to KNOW of a thing. Deleuze, the great French philosopher, studied philosophy, wrote many books and towards the end of his life wrote a book "What is Philosophy?" and said one could only speculate what it really meant. To me, this is the beauty of knowledge! To be able to be an idiot! The questioning of a further quest. A great philosopher of science Karl Popper wrote in his book "Unended Quest", that to understand life one has to raise doubt. 17th Century French philosopher and physicist Descartes said "Cogito ergo sum" i.e. I think, therefore I am.

To think is consciousness.. is it not to become an idiot ?

RAKHI

Early morning, someone knocking on the door.
Must be a dream I thought.
I opened the door....
"Sister!!, What you doing here ??"
"Raksha Bandhan !!"
"AH!! me and my forgetfulness."
She rested for a while, freshened up.
We wore new outfits, ones they wear on ocassions.
The teeka, chokha, RAKHI and sweets....
I opened my eyes. It was almost noon. Teeka on my forehead and
the taste of sweets in my mouth still lingering...
Ah! must be a dream I thought..
Phone rang...Guess who ? :)