अवसाद - first jab at poetry

ऐ हृदय अब तू जरा संभल, ऐ हृदय अब तू जरा ठहर

इन रगों के लाल लहू सा अब, ना तू आवेश में बहता चल

इस शीत उष्ण सी धरा पे अब, ना तू स्वप्नों के बर्तन गढ़

क्या कहेगा इस दुस्साहस पर, वो जाने वाला पथिक ठिठक

तू हांड मांस का पुतला है, ना देवों सा अभिमान तू रख

जीवन के इस मंथन में तुझको हालाहल पीना होगा

तू वो नीलकंठ नहीं जो उन देवों का भी अर्ध्य बने

इस सृष्टि के समक्ष तेरा अस्तित्व है एक कण

क्या सृजन ही जीवन को है परिभाषा देता

तो उस महादेव की पूजा का है क्या मतलब

इस मिथ्या मोक्ष की मृगतृष्णा में

ना तू बंजारों सा लक्ष्यहीन भटका चल

हाँ मन और आत्म के इस सतत संघर्ष से

तुझको स्वयं ही वीरों सा घोर युद्ध करना होगा

सबके बाणों में धनञ्जय सी तीक्ष्णता नहीं

पर अभिमन्यु सा होने की अभिलाषा तू कर

Abstentmindedness!

I don't know what I am going to write about but who cares! Anyway we may end up with a coherent piece. I feel like indulging myself and would like to talk about myself... Absent-minded that's what I am. Though I have tried to be in perpetual denial of the fact, it is correct to the best of my knowledge.
Well I have been looking for a magic pill but to no avail. They have not yet started working on it.
What have I done in last 6 months?
1. Played lots of online chess.
2.Studied sporadically for CAT.
In essence, the resultant is cipher.Guess now I understand why "SLOTH" is one of the seven deadly sins.
p.s. See ya 'round

youth and politics

Aristotle asserts in his book,Politics, that man is, by nature, a political animal. He argues that ethics and politics are closely linked, and that a truly ethical life can only be lived by someone who participates in politics.

But the above statement would bring nothing but disapproving grimaces from whoever happens to read it.Well the above assertion quite ironically happens to place "Ethics" and "Politics" together which to many is as different and contrasting as chalk and cheese.
Ethics depicts a system with morale but politics doesn't happen to have any-that is what we believe and we believe what we see.
Just when I dare to put forth to the readers here that the topic I m writing about is Youth and Politics.It seems I have already been pigeonholed with some tag and most of you are thinking that reading this would be an effort in vain.But I would just like to paint an objective view of the whole picture trying to put it in the right perspective.
Youth-the future of the nation on whose strong shoulders rest the burden of taking the nation forward.But are we upto it? This is one question we should ask ourselves rather than to others.Loads of introspection is required added with a sense of honesty while answering it.
Apart from writing codes for the multinational companies and minting money,what is our responsibility towards the country.Who cares anyways,let the country go to wolves.There are more important issues at hand like getting a green card and obscene paycheques.If I say these things are all superficial,it would be nothing but a white lie.But don't we with ourselves carry an iota of thought that would propel us to do something about the state of affairs all around.yes,I know its easy to point fingers and shirk away from what is happening around.But remember when we point at something four of those fingers are pointing towards us.
As one of the protagonists in Rang de Basanti puts it...
"who cares nothing can be changed,I would be off to America getting my degree in a month"-comes forth the retort-"Its very easy watching from the distance letting what is happening...do something...join politics..get into civil services".
I know the arguement holds water for few minutes and after that we are overpowered by our so called rational and practical self that speaks for us citing the above notion as nothing but lots of romanticism and nothing more.
Yes,there are problems,there is the problem of corruption,the problem of crime....why take the futile plunge?
But were those people idiots who took the dive risking everything in '47 or in the youth uprising in JP movement in'77.....
Maybe,afterall,we just might have become numb enough to ignore things at their peril and are at ease with our conscience just by lighting some candles and sending some sms once in a while.
I will leave at that and rest my case and leave all of you to make peace with yourselves.Afterall we ain't so numb yet!

P.S. this one is my contribution to college magazine ....

Nostalgia

The clock of time ticks away and brings with itself lots of changes,myriads of new problem and so come the solutions to them.It brings agony,mirth,sadness, joy and pleasure.This I guess makes Life a cornucopia of ever flowing emotions that are paradoxically quite intriguing and opposite in what they stand for. Nostalgia holds sway as I look back on the days gone by. I am about to leave the devil's hell which we euphemistically call Cusat(Now I see everybody nodding their heads in approval).
But guys the experience was after all not that bad.It made us what we are with its bitter-sweet emotions.There have been moments of dejection as well as the moments of glory.Moments of despair have shrouded us which has been caste away by the light of HOPE.We all have made mistakes and have taken it in our stride learning our lessons from them.The friendly banter which everybody had with their buddies won't miss to bring a smile on our faces when we reminisce about them. Yeah we will miss it.Period!
Thirty more days to go...so I guess its normal to be nostalgic.
p.s. Life is always a forward march but past is what makes us what we are!

Love's Philosophy

The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In another's being mingle--
Why not I with thine?
See, the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower could be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;
--What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?

yours truly Percy Bysshe Shelley at your service "mah man"(picked up from blood diamond)

Roadie

Well I surely am a serious movie buff but a strict no-no to soaps and stick to my quota of news n cricket matches..... but these days, its a different story altogether,I am hooked to a reality TV program being aired on MTV.... yes you guessed it right I yours truly am addicted to MTV roadies.... well on closer look myriads of reasons come to the fore.... maybe it pleases me to hilt in the sense that there are people who are more screwed up than me.
well my friends would reason that I have a great liking for the F-word..... sick!
Last one month has been quite hectic....but now its peace all around.....I am wondering what is the name of life force that has kept me going....
so long....au revoir

Amused?

Seconds, minutes, hours,days, months, years....................
As they add up to the other, so do the thoughts culminating in our actions and actions define the very fibre of our character.
Character is what we do when nobody is looking.So true and amusing.
Every day brings with itself the joy of living....now I see some skeptics frowning and grimacing at the last statement since this space lately has not been letting out any positive vibes.But hey everybody gets to do a U-turn....don't they?.......
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Sometimes when you fall, and when I say fall that means you hit the ground really hard.But we all have a clock somewhere built inside us that makes us tick letting us admire and amuse about things around us.
When you admire something...that something can be anything embodying all that is beautiful in this world from the banal to the ethereal.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
au revoir!