One of those days when the sky premiers its best shows
Are you a fan of big proposals? I’ve not made up my mind yet, but I love poetry. While scrolling through YouTube the other day, I came across a video of Ashutosh Rana sharing the poem he wrote for Renuka Ji. It’s a beautiful poem. It goes something like this:
“प्रिय लिख कर नीचे लिख दूं नाम तुम्हारा
कुछ पंक्तियां छोड़ लिख दू सदा तुम्हारा
और लिखा बीच में क्या?
यह तुमको पढ़ कर समझना है कागज पर मन की भाषा का अर्थ समझना है
और जो भी अर्थ निकालोगी वह मुझको स्वीकार
झुके नयन, कोरा कागज, मौन अधर, मंद मंद मुस्कान अर्थ सभी का प्यार”If you’re interested in watching the full video, here is a link.
Hindi movies and Urdu ghazals always find a way to find each other – much like dry flowers and old books. I recently heard these lines in Zubeida (a Bollywood movie) at the end and fell in love with how beautifully they complement the ending.
“अब के हम बिछड़े तो शायद कभी ख़्वाबों में मिलें
जिस तरह सूखे हुए फूल किताबों में मिलें”Since we’re on the topic, can't resist but share another line of Urdu ghazal that featured in a rather famous Bollywood movie.
“हम ही हम हैं तो क्या हम हैं तुम ही तुम हो तो क्या तुम हो”It was a big day for Apple stans yesterday. New launches, new features, and a much-awaited VR gear – a houseful show. Maybe, Apple does not sell equipment, it sells us the future and we all are too enthusiastic to buy it right away.
As for the future, I recently read Fahrenheit 451 – a dystopian novel written by Ray Bradbury. The book was written in 1951, more than 70 years back, and it feels as if it was written for this time and the future ahead of us. As they say, it’s the thing about art – it has to be timeless.
Coming back to the book, Ray presents us with a reality wherein firemen are burning books day and night, people are listening to the radio (like thing) almost all day, and TV screens have become as essential as breathing.
The site is not a reality (yet) for many of us, but we can’t deny it happening all around us. Thanks to the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, I realised how similar my surroundings are. How many people wear Bluetooth headsets all through the day, putting it off when they’ve to talk to somebody?
If there was a joy calculator, I would have loved to find out how much joy a sleeping cat brings to me. The mere sight of a small feline enjoying its existence makes me smile. Not sure of the comparison, but I think it’ll be the same (if not more) as eating a coffee candy.
Flowers are a reminder that good exists in the world and there’s plenty of it if you know where to look. During my childhood, we only had one flowering plant at our home – a pink Lily that used to bloom for a handful of weeks. Every season, the first flower used to be a surprise: Dadaji would pluck one of them and keep it on the dining table for me to see. In my hurry to get ready for school, I would flash out the biggest of smiles without asking much. And seeing the smile, Dada Ji used to smile too – a smile full of satisfaction as saying it was worth planting the plant.
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