Wednesday, December 22, 2010

पढ़ पढ़ इल्म किताबां दा तू नाम रख लेया काजी

पढ़ पढ़ इल्म किताबां दा तू नाम रख लेया काजी
Learning through the rote of books you call yourself a scholar

हथ विच फड के तलवारां तू नाम रख लेया घाज़ी
Grasping the sword in your hand you call yourself a warrior

मक्के मदीने घूम आया तू नाम रख लेया हाजी,
Having visited Mecca and Medina you call yourself a pilgrim

बुल्ला तू की हासिल कीता जे यार ना रखेया राज़ी!
Bullah, what have you accomplished if you have not remained true to your friend!

Courtesy-A friend

Sunday, November 21, 2010

All that is gold...

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.


---From Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Sunday, May 2, 2010

INVICTUS

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

--by
William Ernest Henley

courtesy: B. Goutam Kumar

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

गुलज़ार

तेरे लिए ठहरा पानी आज बह ही निकला, कुछ सागर बिना शोर भी मचल जाते हैं l

दिन डूब के तो रोज़ ही बुझा करता है, कभी लहरें भी उजालोँ को पी जाती हैं l

आज की रात बहुत सी लहरों से रोशन होगी l

-गुलज़ार (त्रिवेणी)

Sunday, April 4, 2010

When I born, I black,
When I grow up, I black,
When I go in sun, I black,
When I cold, I black,
When I scared, I black,
When I sick, I black,
And when I die, I still black

And you white fellow,
When you born, you pink,
When you grow up, you white,
When you go in sun, you red,
When you cold, you blue,
When you scared, you yellow,
When you sick, you green,
And when you die, you Gray.
And you calling me coloured??

--anonymous

Sunday, March 28, 2010

देशप्रेम

पूछो सिकता- कड़ से हिमपति तेरा वह राजस्थान कहाँ,
वन-वन स्वतंत्रता दीप लिए फिरने वाला बलवान कहाँ
तू पूछ अवध से राम कहाँ,
वृंदा बोलो घनश्याम कहाँ,
ए मगध कहाँ तेरा अशोक,
वह चन्द्रगुप्त बलधाम कहाँ

सिकता- कड़-रेत

Courtesy-My Father

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Conscience and Remorse.

"GOOD-BYE," I said to my conscience--
"Good-bye for aye and aye,"
And I put her hands off harshly,
And turned my face away;
And conscience smitten sorely
Returned not from that day.


But a time came when my spirit
Grew weary of its pace;
And I cried: "Come back, my conscience;
I long to see thy face."
But conscience cried: "I cannot;
Remorse sits in my place."


--Paul Laurence Dunbar

Friday, March 12, 2010

Ae Umer-e-rawaan aahista chal...

Kuch khawab hain jin ko likhna hai..
Taabeer ki sorat daini hai..
Kuch log hain ujray dil walay..
Jinhain apni mohabbat daini hai..
Kuch phool hain jin ko chun na hai..
Aur haaar ki sorat daini hai..
Kuch apni neend baki hai..
Jisay bantnaa hai kuch logoon mein..
Un ko bhi rahat daini hai..
Ay umer-e-rawaan ahista chal..
Abhi khasaa karz chukaana hai..!

Thursday, March 4, 2010

yeh mashgala hai kisi ka ... najaane kya chahe...???
na faslon ko mitayeee... na faisla chahe...



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mushkil sa ho gya hai khud ko sambhale rakhna...
lekin wo keh gayi thi apna khayal rkhna

Saturday, February 27, 2010

And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to nought
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I'd something more to say

----from the song Time(The Dark Side of Moon) by Pink Floyd

Thursday, February 25, 2010

खौफ ए दर्द ए दिल से, परहेज़ ए मुहब्बत
मानिंद ए ख़ुदकुशी आने से पहले मौत
---Rosen Dash

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!


----Rudyard Kipling

Sunday, February 21, 2010

wo ghazal waalo ka usluub samajhte honge,
chaand kehte hain kise, khoob samajhte honge
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Bahut Roye hain us Ashk Ki Khatir,
Jo nikalta Hai Khusi Ki inteha par !!
Mujh ko maloom nahi husn ki "Tareef" magar...
Meri nazron mein haseen woh he jo "TUM" jaisa ho ...!!


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Mere Naseeb Ki Yeh Bhi To Khush Naseebi Hai...
K Mujh Ko Dekh Ke Sab Pochtey Hain Haal UsKa...!!

Saturday, February 20, 2010

हज़ारों ख्वाहिशें ऐसी कि हर ख्वाहिश पे दम निकले
बहुत निकले मेरे अरमान लेकिन फिर भी कम निकले

---Ghalib

Friday, February 19, 2010

I know I was born
And I know I will die
The in between is mine...
I AM MINE
----Pearl Jam
तुम मुझे भूल भी जाओ तो ये हक है तुमको
मेरी बात और है मैंने तो मुहब्बत की है

----from the movie Didi

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Saransh

"तुम्हारे चेहरे की झुर्रियों में मेरे जीवन का सारांश है"

-Anupam Kher to his wife in the movie Saransh

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

ग़म इस कदर बढ़े कि मैं घबरा के पी गया
इस दिल की बेबसी पे, तरस खा के पी गया!
ठुकरा रहा था मुझको बड़ी देर से जहाँ
मैं आज सब जहाँ को ठुकरा के पी गया!!

----Sahir Ludhiyanvi from the movie Pyaasa

Presence...!!

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."

Friday, February 12, 2010

तुझे मोहब्बत करनी नहीं आती
मुझे मोहब्बत के सिवा कुछ नहीं आता

ज़िन्दगी गुज़ारने के दो ही रास्ते हैं ग़ालिब
एक तुझे नहीं आता एक मुझे नहीं आता.

----Ghalib

Courtesy: Rohit Mishra
कौन कहता है आसमान में छेद नहीं हो सकता
ज़रा एक पत्थर तो तबीयत से उछालो यारों

Saturday, February 6, 2010

नज़्म उलझी हुई है सीने में
मिसरे अटके हुए हैं होठों पर

लफ्ज़ काग़ज़ पर बैठते ही नहीं
उड़ते फिरते हैं तितलियों की तरह

कब से बैठा हूँ जानम
सादे काग़ज़ पे लिखके नाम तेरा

बस तेरा नाम ही मुकम्मल है
इससे बेहतर भी नज़्म क्या होगी


----Gulzar

Friday, February 5, 2010

ऐ वाइज़-ए-नादां करता है तू एक क़यामत का चर्चा
यहाँ रोज़ निगाहें मिलती हैं यहाँ रोज़ क़यामत होती है


- Saba Afghani
Album: Desires(Jagjit Singh)

Thursday, February 4, 2010

तुझे दानिस्ता महफ़िल में जो देखा हो तो मुजरिम हूँ
नज़र आखिर नज़र है बे इरादा उठ गई होगी

Courtesy: Priyanka Mishra

Monday, February 1, 2010

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
-Thomas Hardy

Sunday, January 31, 2010

ज़ाहिद शराब पीने दे मस्जिद में बैठ कर
या वो जगह बता दे जहाँ पर खुदा न हो.


-- Mirza Ghalib

(Courtesy: Anurag Dak)

Saturday, January 30, 2010

कुछ दूर हमारे साथ चलो हम दिल की कहानी कह देंगे
समझे न जिसे तुम आँखों से वो बात ज़बानी कह देंगे

फूलों की तरह जब होंठों पर इक शोख तबस्सुम बिखरेगा
धीरे से तुम्हारे कानों में इक बात पुरानी कह देंगे

इज़हार-ए-वफ़ा तुम क्या समझो इक़रार-ए-वफ़ा तुम क्या जानो
हम ज़िक्र करेंगे गैरों का और अपनी कहानी कह देंगे

मौसम तो बड़ा ही ज़ालिम है तूफ़ान उठाता रहता है
कुछ लोग मगर इस हलचल को बदमस्त जवानी कह देंगे




....sung by Hariharn from the album Abraar-e- ghazal

courtesy: Priyanka & Rohit Mishra


Wednesday, January 20, 2010

हमको मालूम है जन्नत की हकीक़त लेकिन
दिल के खुश रखने को ग़ालिब ये ख्याल अच्छा है ...


Courtesy: Rohit Mishra

Sunday, January 17, 2010

कभी रस्ते में मिल जाओ तो कतरा के गुज़र जाना
हमें इस तरह तकना जिस तरह पहचाना नहीं तुमने
हमारा ज़िक्र जब आये तो यूँ अनजान बन जाना
कि जैसे नाम सुन कर भी हमें जाना नहीं तुमने


---from the movie Kabhi Kabhi.
(Courtsey Rohit Mishra)

Saturday, January 16, 2010

भारी भरकम एक कहानी केले के छिलके पर फिसली,
एक कहानी हल्की फुलकी उड़ जाए जो फूंके तितली,
खट्टी हो तो नमक लगा के गले में रख के पानी ले लो ...
गुच्छा है भई गुच्छा है कहानियों का गुच्छा है....
कहानी ले लो.....


Gulzar, without any doubt is a gem of Indian Cinema. For decades now, he has given us songs
to cherish, to hum, to think over and appreciate the beauty of his words. It's difficult to imagine
that the same person can give us songs like मेरा कुछ सामान and on the other hand can write
चड्डी पहन के फूल खिला है . The same person can pen down words like
तुझसे नाराज़ नहीं ज़िन्दगी हैरान हूँ मैं and बीड़ी जलई ले with equal ease. The list is endless. In the world of song writers, he stands out as a poet....

a recent one from "पोटली बाबा की"....


दोनों तरफ से बजती है यह
आये हाय ज़िन्दगी क्या ढोलक है
horn बजा के आ बगियाँ में 
अरे थोडा आगे गति रोधक है
अरे चल चल चल उड़ जा उड़ जा फुर फुर्र…