Wednesday, August 8, 2018


When you suddenly feel lonely and cannot think of anything to do. Just flash back a little and think... You didn't need another person to feel valued when you were in school or college. Revive that sense of pumped up happiness. Remember what made you tick then. You loved songs coz you liked it. There was no joint copyright for liking a particular song... Which you now think of as "Our song" and get all teary eyed and switch it off. It was Your song one day. Just your song... The quality of liking it is yours, personal. You own it in your right.
Just remember that person that is still inside you. That was once walking around like the emperor or empress of your own world.. Without a care in the world.
Live... Breath... Be happy... You are worth everything.. Just look at the mirror and smile #revivals #living
RM :) 

Sunday, July 22, 2018

I do

I looked up at the vast azure and asked
Why?
Why am I denied what is so easy for everyone else
Why every time I have to seek like a beggar the opportunity to be all that I can be

He looked down at me and said,

"Daughter, see where you are standing
You say you are a beggar
You who stands in her own Home
You who had once thought of it as a distant, impossible dream
You foolishly ask to lead one home
I have built you to lead a hundred homes
You dream to mother a child
I have filled you with strength to bring up a thousand children
You wish to cradle an infant
I have made you to be a mother of men
You wish to nurture a son or daughter
You are to be a mother to fathers and mothers forgotten
You aspire to spoil a naughty child
You have to show the path to a people gone astray for the want of a mother.

You wish to inculcate civility in your lineage
You have to bring back a generation to the path of righteousness.

You have to bring back the faith in right doing.
You are looking at taming hills.
When I have built you to rule mountains.
How can I oblige Oh daughter?
I have made the world to be your home
You ask me for a hut
How will you fit in
You are not born to beg
You are my princess
You are to rule on my behalf
You are to re-establish my name
You are to take the throne from me
Take charge my daughter"


I bow and say... "I do"

Saturday, June 23, 2018

You within me

Not a penny in hand
But the resolve to build a castle

Not a bone  unbroken
But the arrogance of taming the peaks

No future inheritance in sight
But the pride of giving away all

Heart bleeding with a hundred holes
Still the wish to anoint others with the reddened elixir

You gave this.. O Lord
To the meek, the doubtful
You stood beside and made look tall
The soul that was about to be dwarfed by its own shortsightedness

May you rule all the breaths this life has

May you design all the lives this soul has

The celebration of your grace is my pride
Treading the path illuminated by you my good fortune


Saturday, August 19, 2017

I believe I owe this post here

I am a believer and I follow Ayn Rand's moral code. I feel God's presence supporting all our right actions and I feel we must act where action is required. Coz God helps those who help themselves :)


Every person is composed of different elements. One cannot reject a person for one particular trait. Since I believe in God, I also believe had she been around in our times, she would have been able to see that the kind of world she stood by is not possible without someone who provides Justice to the right. Who avenged even her. There is always a reason a person is atheist. But that is only till he/she realizes that the Ultimate judge is above. She respected purity, integrity. Henry Rearden sought solace and the words of another person telling him what delivered him, in Francisco d' Anconia. We the Henry Reardens and the Dagny Taggarts of Today seek the same deliverance in people who understand ethics, morals, integrity, honesty and individuality. These are principles which are the foundation of Any Rand's creations such "We the living", " Fountain Head", & "Atlas Shrugged".
Had she come across people who practiced these in their lives through their faith in God's Justice she would have had her moment of seeing.
I respect integrity, individuality and honesty. We do not have separate categories such as Atheist Integrity, Atheist Individuality and Atheist Honesty.
Our God tells us to embrace all in our warm blanket of faith. Sooner or later spirituality catches up. One has no option but to have faith. But certainly faith should be followed by action wherever possible. One cannot expect things to happen on their own where our mental and physical efforts are required. Ayn Rand believed in doing something about things rather than thinking why it can't be done. And don't we say " God helps those who help themselves " :) I hope I have been able to answer your curiosity to some extent. Would love to discuss more on this if you are interested. I can only say the more I read the last 2 novels that I have mentioned, the more I believe in God's poetic justice and that deliverance awaits us all :)

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Khwab dikhakar  neend tod dena doston ki fitrat ban gayi
Toote sapne  sajakar dil behlana hamari aadat ban gayi

Unhe sharm na aayi apni  waada khilaafi pe
Unke jhoothe wade pe sawal uthatin aankhen sharmsaar ho gayin 

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Injured pride

There's a difference between the ones who own the walls and those who make graffiti; class. The very basic classification that has existed since inception of belongingness.

Saturday, July 29, 2017



 कौन पढ़ता है किताबें ? क्यूँ पढ़ी जाती हैं किताबें? 

कुछ  लोग किताबें पढ़ते हैं प्रेरणा पाने के लिए , कुछ लोग पढ़ते हैं कुछ समय के लिए इस दुनिया को भूल जाने के  लिए । कुछ लोग ज्ञान बढ़ाने के लिए, कुछ अपना व्यक्तित्व उभारने के लिए पढ़ते हैं.

कुछ लोग इसलिए भी पढ़ते  हैं  किताबें कि कह सकें कि हमने यह किताब पढ़ी है, और उस कृति के गौरव के  प्रतिफलित आलोक में खुद को भी आलौकिक महसूस करें ।

कुछ लोग अपनी समस्याओं का समाधान ढूंढते हैं किताबों में, कुछ अपनी रुचियों में और महारथ हासिल करने करने के लिए किताबें पढ़ते हैं ।

कोई ख़ुद को किताबों मे खो देना देना चाहता है, कोई उनमे ख़ुद को पाना चाहता है.
कोई खुद के मन को समझना चाहता है, कोई दूसरों की सोच को समझना चाहता है

कोई अपनी धरोहर का इतिहास जानना चाहता है, कोई उसकी विशालता और वैभवता  नापना चाहता है
कोई अनदेखे शहरों की अनसुनी कहानी पढ़ना चाहता है, उनके समुंदरों की फेनिल आभा छवियों में देखना चाहता है।


कोई भविष्य की सम्भावनांओं को आंकना चाहता है, बदलती दुनिया की तेज़ रफ़्तार से कदम  मिलाना चाहता है,
कोई कुछ पल वही पुराने दिनों का ठहराव महसूस करना चाहता है, फुर्सत की , बेफ़िक्री की दुपहरें फिर जीना चाहता है


कोई व्यंग में आमोद ढूंढता है, कोई दर्द में ख़ूबसूरती
जो इस तरह जिये के मिसाल बन गए, कोई उनकी कहानी पढ़के जीने का ढंग सीखना चाहता है, कोई उस महानता का विलम्बित साक्षी बन इस बात भर से मुग्ध होना चाहता है, ख़ुद को आश्वस्त करना चाहता है कि यह स्तर भी संभव है

कोई कविता का पुजारी है, कोई ग़ज़लों का, तो कोई कहानियों का

कोई तर्क से परे भावुकता के स्वप्न देश में बहना चाहता है, कोई तर्क, विज्ञान, न्याय शास्त्र के के सूत्र ढूंढना चाहता है।

फिल्मों की दुनिया , खेल, सँगीत, पर्यावरण और प्रकृति की दुनिया, यह सब ढूंढता है किताबों में।
और मज़े की बात यह है कि हर तरह के सक्स की हर तरह की ज़रुरत के लिए किताबें किसी न किसी ने लिख रखी हैं ।

पर यह किताबों की दुनिया किसी भूलभुलैया से कम नहीं, अनगिनत  तारा मंडलों से भरे ब्रम्हाण्ड से कम नहीं;
किसी महादेश से कम नही।
ऐसे में किसी ग़लत दिशा में चलना, अपनी मन चाही कृति का न मिल पाना, सही सोचकर चुने हुए रास्ते  पर चलते हुए अंत में निराशा का हाथ आना, कोई बड़ी बात नहीं ।

जिस प्रकार कोई व्यक्ति जब किसी दार्शनिक स्थान को देखता है, वह सिर्फ उस स्थान को ही नहीं बल्कि उस स्थान पर अपने अंदर बदले हुए उस इंसान को भी देखता है, जो शायद उसे अपने शहर में नहीं दिखता, वह सिर्फ उस स्थान की छवि ही अपने साथ लेकर नहीं लौटता, बल्कि एक अनुभव को अपने अंदर समाये, लौटता है, अपने आप से इस एक हलके से वादे के साथ की कभी फिर यहीँ आना है , और यही पल जीना है।

लेकिन इस सब की शुरुआत होती है उस दार्शनिक स्थान के होने से, और उस व्यक्ति के पास उस स्थान के होने की ख़बर से ।

किताबों की दुनिया अपने आप में एक सभ्यता है, यह हमारी धरोहर है। चुन चुन के योग्य कृतियों को इस धरोहर में शामिल करना, और योग्य लेखकों को उत्साहित करना हमारी ज़िम्मेदारी है, साहित्य जगत के प्रति ।



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