Dec 21, 2015

कोई तो साथी हो पलकों पे बूँदें लिए

I am 32 year old. I have been to different places, met different people and I had this belief that when you visit a place you tend to leave some part of your soul at that place and you tend to pick up a part of that place with you. I have a long list of well wishers and close friends. I lived at so many different places and have so different set of friends that sometimes it seems like different worlds. It seemed like I have been to many different worlds that are not interconnected. The worlds those are so different that they didn’t share anything common. People of one world are completely unaware of people of other world. Sometimes I feel like a spider that has entangled itself in to all its worlds.
Now the question is if I have such a wide variety of friends in my life then why many times I felt strangely alone.  Why I feel that I didn't have an audience. One answer of this question is that people of one particular world knew about one aspect of me and they are completely unaware with all other things and this is true with all worlds. They look at me from one specific angle and had a perception from that point of view. There will hardly be anybody who has complete access to my personality cults.
Now thing is that many times I feel like having not even one person who knows me completely, who don’t have any prejudice about me. Somebody who belongs to a different world, not related to any of mine; somebody who is not even remotely connected to me. Somebody who has time of the entire world and who can have all ears for me. Somebody who can listen without asking questions, somebody who can listen without interrupting. Somebody who is not going to judge me. Somebody who just makes me feel comfortable to speak, who just make me feel like talking.
I wish to share my self completely with someone; whatever I have done well, bad, beautiful, ugly.
Someone who can just listen without speaking. It’s not that I don’t have people who can hear me but I want somebody who can listen not hear. There is huge difference between these two words. Many times we realized after speaking something that people are hearing but not listening. At such moments you feel like why I speak at first place. At such moments, you can hear your own voice reflecting back from empty ears.
So I want somebody who don’t listen my stories as of a hero or of a villain but just a character. One can argue that this is escapism from reality. No its not. It’s just export of your grief, suffering, joy, guilt to somebody and came back as a clean slate in your present world without guilt, prejudice or anything else.
If you have one such person in your life then you are lucky because I firmly believe that we all deserve one such person. If you don’t have one such person then don’t worry, many people didn't have one. It’s just that slowly all doors to all worlds in your heart will be closed. You will have to leave past and will have to live like a person without any memory.

Don’t ask, don’t judge, just listen quietly.

Aug 9, 2015

Matrubhumi: A Nation Without Women

Recently I watch the movie "Matrubhumi". It was a long pending one for me to see. It was staying at my laptop from last 2 years but I just never get the proper mind to watch it. A very thought provoking movie. Its not a movie, its a journey; a painful one. It will leave you, numb, speechless. Once you will finish the movie, you will have a heavy heart. You need courage and guts to make such movie and you needs more to watch it completely. Its vulgarity and has violence as well but vulgarity is at mental level. It will make you upset, angry, helpless. At few points movie has so dark a humour that you will feel hurt. The problem of female foeticide has taken in this movie and you cant make a better movie then this on this subject. The director Manish Jha and all actors deserves kudos. A true mind boggling movie. Its unfortunate that in India, such movies didn't get much audience.
A must watch.

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Mar 1, 2015

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"ये महज पल है तो इक पल में ही टल जायेगा
और अगर जादू है तो आज भी चल जायेगा
मेरी मिट्टी का खिलौना मुझे वापस कर दो
जिस्म बच्चा है खिलौने से बहल जायेगा..."

Feb 20, 2015

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पड़ाव आये कई एक घर नहीं आया.........कि रास अब के भी हमको सफ़र नहीं आया....!!

Jan 11, 2015

Review of "Accidental Prime Minister by Sanjay Baru"

Just finished reading "Accidental Prime Minister by Sanjay Baru". A decent book that helps us understanding Dr. Manmohan Singh in a balanced and impartial way. After rearing the book I can say that may be politics wasn't kind to him but history will always b kind to him. It doesn't matter whether he will be in active politics or not but Indian economy and politics will owe him a lot.
The book truly justified the title.....