Me and my mind in conversation...

Wow!!! What a Week!!! Rather what a fabulous month and a half. And there couldn't have been a better finish to this festival for a country which is united by one religion despite different beliefs. Yes it is the cricket World Cup 2011 that I am talking about. And yours truly is one of those lunatics who fast (read forget everything except one) even on Baisakhi, this one was like an extra extended Navaratri, so one can easily imagine the extent of my excitement during this month and a half, and the magnitude of joy when India won!!! Yes, India finally did manage to get the cup home after a wait of 28 long years. Here are snippets from a few News items I read recently. Surprisingly these are related to the World Cup but don't talk about Cricket. "Just before the Feb 19-April 2 tournament reached the halfway mark, the government issued an alert on Wednesday over a possible attack on the tournament being played in 13 venues across India, Sri Lanka and Ban...

जब भीड़ में रहकर भी अपना नहीं कोई दिखता तो सिर्फ अपने दिल ही का साथ होता है जो ज़िन्दा हो दिल तो शहर बसा रहता है जो बुझ जाये तो दश्त सा बन जाता है कभी खुद की मुश्किलों से खफा हो कर, कभी किसी और के दर्द की कराह सुनकर जाने कितनी बार कुछ बदलने का ख्याल मन में आया होगा पर जब भी दिल ने वो याद दिलाया, कल का आसरा देकर हमने दिल को बहलाया होगा जब कभी राह चुनने का मंज़र आया दिल की न सुनकर हमने भीड़ पर भरोसा दिखाया होगा और उसी राह पर चलकर अक्सर खुद को कभी तनहा तो कभी अधूरा पाया होगा पर दिल किसका है अपना ही तो है कुछ जो कल कहा था उसने, आज वो जीकर दिखाओ उसे फिर कोई राह मंजिल से पहले छूटेगी नहीं और दिल तुम्हें तनहा कभी छोड़ेगा नहीं... --  कानू --

बात कुछ घंटों पहले की हो या कुछ सालों की उसे गुज़रा कल ही कहते हैं वो याद कुछ घड़ी भर की हो या एक अरसा जुड़ा हो उस याद से उसे बीते पल ही कहते हैं जुदा हुए कुछ लोग हों , या कुछ टूटी उमीदें बाकी सिर्फ यादें ही बचती हैं यादों में खो जाते हैं अक्सर हम और ज़िन्दगी बदली हुई सी लगती है कुछ आँखों में चमक लाती हैं कुछ चेहरे पे मुस्कुराहट और कुछ बस नम आँखों का एहसास छोड़ जाती हैं कुछ होठों को यूँ अचानक कुछ कह देने के लिए खुला छोड़ जाती हैं और कुछ घंटों तक चुप रहने का बहाना दे जाती हैं ये मन बस यादों में जाने के बहाने ढूंढता है भागती दौड़ती ज़िन्दगी को यु अचानक रोक कर मीलों पीछे भेज देता है कोई आवाज़ , कुछ शब्द , कोई तस्वीर , या फिर बस कागज़ का एक फटा हुआ सा पन्ना ही ज़िन्दगी के रेडियो का स्टेशन बदल देता है “कुछ कहा था उसने मुझसे , काश मैं भी कुछ कह देता ” “क्यों मैं चल दिया वहाँ से , काश खुद को रोक...

We interact with a lot of people every day. Sometimes, we might irritate them. Sometimes we might even infuriate them. Do all of them react the same way, always? Well, not really. They may react. They may not react. They may react then. They may react later. They may smile. They may frown. They may even get angry, or might just walk away expressionlessly. But do those smiles or frowns really express the feelings within. Well, may or may not be. This varies with people, with situations. I have observed a varied set of immediate and delayed responses by various people, to situations where, I believe, one could get irritated or annoyed. Here is a list of categories I could classify people into, and objects I found them analogous to. 1. The Black Boxes : This, I believe, is the best breed of people one could come across. Like physical black boxes that absorb all light that falls on them, these people can bear anything you do to them. They are the most forgiving ones of the lot. They ...

Picked this up from another site... amazing.. "When watching Slumdog Millionaire, there was one thing a lot of people did not understand. In the movie the kids who were from the slums became tour guides and took white people around on tours. Everyone had the same question, how did these kids know English. If they are from the slums how can they pick up one of the most difficult languages in the world? Well here is a video of a kid from the slums who also happens to be selling peacock feathers and check out how many languages he knows. This video was a big hit a few years ago and they just found this kid again in his teenage year and he is still doing the same thing. Check out these clips."

On the way to Tirumala from Tirupati, we saw idols of various incarnations of Lord Vishnu. W were able to recognise a few, the rest we could not. so i called up my Dad to find out the names of all of Vishnu's incarnations in the right sequence. My dad told me not just the names but also the logic behind the sequence in which all these incarnations occured. 1. A fish, Matsya , a creature that lived in water. 2. A tortoise, Kashyap, a creature that lived both in water and on land. 3. A Pig, varaha, a creature living only on land. 4. Narasimha, a creature that was half animal, half human. 5. Vamana, the first completely human avatar. So the evolution happened from a creature living in water to a human. after this there were 4 incarnations, all humans 6. Parasu Rama 7 . Rama 8 . Krishna 9. Buddha The last one which is yet to come is Kalki.