Man should eat to live and not live to eat!
isi tarah : shouldn't it be : get entertained to live better, instead of seeking better entertainment all the time, coz LIFE IS NOT JUST ENTERTAINMENT!
I dislike the odd phrase : have fun, which any one seems to bandy about to anyone!
it's not funny at all!
People just want to have some good fun?! that's okay!
magar IPL, et. al. craze happening these days, is a bit too much! players getting auctioned/owned by film-stars!
have moolah, will reign!
Finally, even though I have been a cricket-crazy fan since childhood, I have to accept George Bernard Shaw's wise criticism of the once-upon-a-time, flannelled gentleman's game!
22 fools inside and 22 million or what outside?!
better to play our own game in life!
nahin to dhoondte reh jauge!
Shahrukh khan was at his best in Circus, on TV.
Now, his life is itself a circus!
what a joke he has become!
okay, maybe trying to find some purpose in life!
may he get it too!
but he may find it quietly with his family, much more easily, then trying to trump up artificial adrenaline, via the IPL.
It's a free world, no doubt, but FREE TO DOOM, too!
magar phir bhi, JAI HI HO!
tik, tik, tik, mera dil nahin, ghadi bole, aur cc (cybercafe) is about to close!).
me planning to go off-air in march, maa ke liye kuch bada karna hain; hain mahadev, ykw..... alak niranjan!~
Friday, February 22, 2008
Turning the clock back!
21 saal baad! I can make a film, too! by that 'top-sounding' name! (top as in cannon, as in hindi, and not top as in upar, as in english!).
Aaj hain 22nd February, 2008.
and just realised ki have completed, today, exactly 21 years, outside my beloved hometown, baroda!
it was on 23rd February, 1987; I chugged out of Vadodara station, by Vadodara express; and I am still on the journey of self-discovery, and still to find my destination! wonder if it will be found not by turning the clock back, but retracing one's steps to THE OLD NEIGHBOURHOOD. Remember reading this good book, in 1986, while staying in the hostels. My brata's friend, Kenneth, had given the book on loan to us, and i daresay, we didn't / couldn't return it back! hazy the reason! maybe he went back to his hometown, or what? pata nahin. should return it even 21 saal baad?! yes, if i still have the book. lemme search my loft, for the set of old papers!
btw, kenny (as my brother and his friends used to call Kenneth) had a sister who was a very successful model, those days.
Far simpler days; and therein probably lies my solution, too! hark back to those times and the lifestyle which was effective for me! have already done one thing and it's working wow! no tv at home, and it's such a relief! ankhon ko rest mil jaati hain!
and I am back to my favourite pastime, from the past, writing! okay, iss baar on blogs instead of my own logbook!
Okay, have to beat it home, now.
here is an apparently, unnconnected ghulam ali ghazal ! woh koi aur na tha, chand khushk patte the, sajal ke tootne se jo, fasle gul pe roye the...!
and this line rings so true (it is sad, but gives me for no apparent reason, a strange feeling of melancholic happiness. as abby baby says : dard main bhi kuch baat hoti hain!) : TAMAAM UMR WAFA KE, GUNAHGAAR RAHEN; YEH AUR BAAT HAIN KE AADMI TO HAM ACCHE THE! (aur janaab, abhi bhi shaayad acche hi hain!).
It's all the quixotic need to be different/the maverick, as ever! Ham alag hain-syndrome! The supreme non-conformist teaching his students conformity-achievement-processes/systems!
Ajab hain dastaan teri hain zindagi, ajab hain dastaan teri hain zindagi, kabhi hasa diya, rula diya kabhi, ajab hain dastaan teri hain zindagi!
itne gam ke bawander ke beech bhi koi kaise khush-mizaz reh sakta hain?! uske liye tanjorean hona ek karan ho sakta hain! us mitti main hi kuch baat hoti hain, IRREPRESSIBILITY! and of course, apno ka saath aur beshumar pyaar, har cheez /kathin ghadi ko suhana bana deta hain!
Kyonki! Rang baatein karen, aur baaton se khushboo aayen! DARD PHOOLON KI TARAH MEHKE, AGAR TU AAYE! (jai ho to abida parveen's famous rendering of this great ghazal!).
Can you understand? Can you understand? (i can't?!!) People are people, so why should it be, you and me, should get along so famously?! (aisa kuch angrezi gaana me suni'ng! in hostels, back in baroda, circa 1985! on a two-in-one loaned by one kenyan called Daniel, me thinks! not bad, ganesha, teri yaaddast abhi bhi acchi hain, kuch te-eess saal baad!~).
Abari, asantesan, et. al. (lo karlo baat, swahili bhi! tera kuch nahin ho sakta ganesha! the incorrigible jack of all!).
jai hi ho!
aur sab hi ki!
ting, ting, ti ding!
the real 'SUDDEN'!
Aaj hain 22nd February, 2008.
and just realised ki have completed, today, exactly 21 years, outside my beloved hometown, baroda!
it was on 23rd February, 1987; I chugged out of Vadodara station, by Vadodara express; and I am still on the journey of self-discovery, and still to find my destination! wonder if it will be found not by turning the clock back, but retracing one's steps to THE OLD NEIGHBOURHOOD. Remember reading this good book, in 1986, while staying in the hostels. My brata's friend, Kenneth, had given the book on loan to us, and i daresay, we didn't / couldn't return it back! hazy the reason! maybe he went back to his hometown, or what? pata nahin. should return it even 21 saal baad?! yes, if i still have the book. lemme search my loft, for the set of old papers!
btw, kenny (as my brother and his friends used to call Kenneth) had a sister who was a very successful model, those days.
Far simpler days; and therein probably lies my solution, too! hark back to those times and the lifestyle which was effective for me! have already done one thing and it's working wow! no tv at home, and it's such a relief! ankhon ko rest mil jaati hain!
and I am back to my favourite pastime, from the past, writing! okay, iss baar on blogs instead of my own logbook!
Okay, have to beat it home, now.
here is an apparently, unnconnected ghulam ali ghazal ! woh koi aur na tha, chand khushk patte the, sajal ke tootne se jo, fasle gul pe roye the...!
and this line rings so true (it is sad, but gives me for no apparent reason, a strange feeling of melancholic happiness. as abby baby says : dard main bhi kuch baat hoti hain!) : TAMAAM UMR WAFA KE, GUNAHGAAR RAHEN; YEH AUR BAAT HAIN KE AADMI TO HAM ACCHE THE! (aur janaab, abhi bhi shaayad acche hi hain!).
It's all the quixotic need to be different/the maverick, as ever! Ham alag hain-syndrome! The supreme non-conformist teaching his students conformity-achievement-processes/systems!
Ajab hain dastaan teri hain zindagi, ajab hain dastaan teri hain zindagi, kabhi hasa diya, rula diya kabhi, ajab hain dastaan teri hain zindagi!
itne gam ke bawander ke beech bhi koi kaise khush-mizaz reh sakta hain?! uske liye tanjorean hona ek karan ho sakta hain! us mitti main hi kuch baat hoti hain, IRREPRESSIBILITY! and of course, apno ka saath aur beshumar pyaar, har cheez /kathin ghadi ko suhana bana deta hain!
Kyonki! Rang baatein karen, aur baaton se khushboo aayen! DARD PHOOLON KI TARAH MEHKE, AGAR TU AAYE! (jai ho to abida parveen's famous rendering of this great ghazal!).
Can you understand? Can you understand? (i can't?!!) People are people, so why should it be, you and me, should get along so famously?! (aisa kuch angrezi gaana me suni'ng! in hostels, back in baroda, circa 1985! on a two-in-one loaned by one kenyan called Daniel, me thinks! not bad, ganesha, teri yaaddast abhi bhi acchi hain, kuch te-eess saal baad!~).
Abari, asantesan, et. al. (lo karlo baat, swahili bhi! tera kuch nahin ho sakta ganesha! the incorrigible jack of all!).
jai hi ho!
aur sab hi ki!
ting, ting, ti ding!
the real 'SUDDEN'!
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Yahan main ajnabi hoon! magar phir bhi kyon yahan ruka hua hoon?!
Me a stranger here, in this 'colleague bites colleague' business world; not for me the crafty weaving, 'thrust and feint' tactics and the crafty 'your money is my money, and of course, MY MONEY IS MY MONEY' attitude! (made famous by a comic song from a tamil movie!
What is the true meaning of aiswaryam? and me not talking about aishwarya rai or the the other actress by the same first name (aishwarya, d/o lakshmi). Aiswaryam = prosperity/wealth/assets/worth.
What is the true measure of a person? His/her worth?
Looks like nowadays the basic word-charitra or character - is no longer figuring as the top item in the checklist!
yeh paisa, hey paisa, nahin koi, tere jaisa!
me born in a family where most of the attitudes have been shaped by the 'simple living, high thinking' philosophy; and also : TRUST IN GOD, DO THE RIGHT; as well as MAN MAKETH THE MONEY AND MONEY SHOULD NEVER MAKE THE MAN1
but aajkal bada mushkil hain, with these 'outdated?' thinking modes!
but one sticks one, for one can't be anything else, however painful the realizations may be ki aajkal ke daur main khush rehna hain, to bade se bada jhoot bolo, logo ko apne bal se kuchlo, and what's the famous word : GET AHEAD! of what, pray?! me thinks your own goodness/conscience; for other wise, peeche reh jaoge, apne acchai ke bal par !
my great grand-dad, who was orphaned at an early age, was a self-made man; his name was Kandaswamy (called naina, which means daddy in telugu, by one and all; he served as a sub-registrar, in telugu speaking parts of the madras presidency during british times). His story looks so much of a fantasy these days. When he was due for marriage, his prospective father-in-law asked him : ongittai enn ponnai nambi eppadi oppadaikaradu?! On what basis can I trust/rely upon you and hand over my daughter to you? (in other words, how can i be sure that you will keep her well). The simple, down-to-earth reply won the heart of the father-in-law and led to marriage of engal naina (thank goodness, otherwise, you couldn't have read this blog, agar naina kuvare reh jaata to yeh mumkin nahin tha...!). The reply was : I don't have any wealth or assets worth mentioning but I have my two hands; I will work and keep her and my family happy! It touched the gentleman who asked this question and he hugged naina and said : nin daan enn maapillai! thou art my son-in-law!
Today, even if the parents are willing to think like this, very few girls and boys would be so naive! for times have changed! isiliye YAHAN MAIN AJNABI HOON, MAIN JO HOON BAS WAHI HOON!
(and proud of that too!).
a great rafi clarion-call song for the lonely hearts : ham jaiso ke bhag main likha chahat ka vardan nahin, jisne hamko janam diya (meaning god and not parents!) woh patthar hain bhagwan nahin!
basti basti, parbat parbat gaata jaaye banjara lekar dil ka ektara!
'kadam kadam par honi (arre baba dhoni nahin, honi=fate!) baithi apna jaal bichaye; na jaane is nagari main ab kaun kahan reh jaaye, kaun kahan reh jaaye, basti, basti...
and my favourite line (okay, me a deewana mast-ram, who arrogantly cocks-a-snook at the worldly pursuits of wealth and properties!) : DHAN DAULAT KE PEECHE KYON HAIN YEH DUNIYA DEEWANI, YAHAN KI DAULAT YAHAN RAHEGI, SAATH NAHIN HAIN JAANI!
And who says EVERYONE HAS A PRICE?! (might be seemingly true in some idiotic businessman's brazen dictionary! ); arre, janaab, DUTY HI SAB KUCH HOTA HAIN! paisa, pyaar, kuch kuch hi hota hain!
howzzat?! hey, epg (ennamopodaganesha!) neat finish!
Koi puch raha hain : iss pagal ka kya hoga, bhai?! arre, hamein kya pata ji?! usse khud bhi to khabar nahin hain!
only one thing is certain : woh baazi harna nahin chahta/jaanta!
alak niranjan! lage raho, ganeshbhai! apne bhagya se muqabla karte raho, apne hi kamjoriyon se ladte raho! kyonki doosro ke jai se pehle khud pe jai kare!
okay, okay, i know i should keep this brief!
Smile, please! kyonki, main kaise bhool jaun MAIN HOON HINDUSTANI!( i can see one of my best friends really smiling at this; kyon hain na?!).
chalo ji; BHOOL JAAYEN SAARE GAM; kyonki chamka chamka subah ka taara!
with best wishes and regards,
from
philhaal ANDHERE MAIN JO BAITHE HAIN! (woh pucca kahegi : tu kitna filmi hain, ganesha!)
What is the true meaning of aiswaryam? and me not talking about aishwarya rai or the the other actress by the same first name (aishwarya, d/o lakshmi). Aiswaryam = prosperity/wealth/assets/worth.
What is the true measure of a person? His/her worth?
Looks like nowadays the basic word-charitra or character - is no longer figuring as the top item in the checklist!
yeh paisa, hey paisa, nahin koi, tere jaisa!
me born in a family where most of the attitudes have been shaped by the 'simple living, high thinking' philosophy; and also : TRUST IN GOD, DO THE RIGHT; as well as MAN MAKETH THE MONEY AND MONEY SHOULD NEVER MAKE THE MAN1
but aajkal bada mushkil hain, with these 'outdated?' thinking modes!
but one sticks one, for one can't be anything else, however painful the realizations may be ki aajkal ke daur main khush rehna hain, to bade se bada jhoot bolo, logo ko apne bal se kuchlo, and what's the famous word : GET AHEAD! of what, pray?! me thinks your own goodness/conscience; for other wise, peeche reh jaoge, apne acchai ke bal par !
my great grand-dad, who was orphaned at an early age, was a self-made man; his name was Kandaswamy (called naina, which means daddy in telugu, by one and all; he served as a sub-registrar, in telugu speaking parts of the madras presidency during british times). His story looks so much of a fantasy these days. When he was due for marriage, his prospective father-in-law asked him : ongittai enn ponnai nambi eppadi oppadaikaradu?! On what basis can I trust/rely upon you and hand over my daughter to you? (in other words, how can i be sure that you will keep her well). The simple, down-to-earth reply won the heart of the father-in-law and led to marriage of engal naina (thank goodness, otherwise, you couldn't have read this blog, agar naina kuvare reh jaata to yeh mumkin nahin tha...!). The reply was : I don't have any wealth or assets worth mentioning but I have my two hands; I will work and keep her and my family happy! It touched the gentleman who asked this question and he hugged naina and said : nin daan enn maapillai! thou art my son-in-law!
Today, even if the parents are willing to think like this, very few girls and boys would be so naive! for times have changed! isiliye YAHAN MAIN AJNABI HOON, MAIN JO HOON BAS WAHI HOON!
(and proud of that too!).
a great rafi clarion-call song for the lonely hearts : ham jaiso ke bhag main likha chahat ka vardan nahin, jisne hamko janam diya (meaning god and not parents!) woh patthar hain bhagwan nahin!
basti basti, parbat parbat gaata jaaye banjara lekar dil ka ektara!
'kadam kadam par honi (arre baba dhoni nahin, honi=fate!) baithi apna jaal bichaye; na jaane is nagari main ab kaun kahan reh jaaye, kaun kahan reh jaaye, basti, basti...
and my favourite line (okay, me a deewana mast-ram, who arrogantly cocks-a-snook at the worldly pursuits of wealth and properties!) : DHAN DAULAT KE PEECHE KYON HAIN YEH DUNIYA DEEWANI, YAHAN KI DAULAT YAHAN RAHEGI, SAATH NAHIN HAIN JAANI!
And who says EVERYONE HAS A PRICE?! (might be seemingly true in some idiotic businessman's brazen dictionary! ); arre, janaab, DUTY HI SAB KUCH HOTA HAIN! paisa, pyaar, kuch kuch hi hota hain!
howzzat?! hey, epg (ennamopodaganesha!) neat finish!
Koi puch raha hain : iss pagal ka kya hoga, bhai?! arre, hamein kya pata ji?! usse khud bhi to khabar nahin hain!
only one thing is certain : woh baazi harna nahin chahta/jaanta!
alak niranjan! lage raho, ganeshbhai! apne bhagya se muqabla karte raho, apne hi kamjoriyon se ladte raho! kyonki doosro ke jai se pehle khud pe jai kare!
okay, okay, i know i should keep this brief!
Smile, please! kyonki, main kaise bhool jaun MAIN HOON HINDUSTANI!( i can see one of my best friends really smiling at this; kyon hain na?!).
chalo ji; BHOOL JAAYEN SAARE GAM; kyonki chamka chamka subah ka taara!
with best wishes and regards,
from
philhaal ANDHERE MAIN JO BAITHE HAIN! (woh pucca kahegi : tu kitna filmi hain, ganesha!)
Monday, February 11, 2008
NICE GUYS.............., LAST!
Today this nice maverick has decided to take a shot at the modern-day criticism of some good souls ! : WHO SAYS NICE GUYS FINISH LAST?!! okay, they may not always appear to be winning, but by no means they are laggards!
They are running a different race altogether! the sprinters who run a short while and finish the race, quickly ahead of the nice guys (and nice girls, too!) think that they are ahead, but they are not in the same event! the nice people chug along at their own pace, no doubt, and sometimes appear to be going in the wrong/reverse direction, but they are clear in their minds, what they want to achieve, and back themselves, quietly and unobtrusively, under any circumstances! Yes, it is still true, slow (in the systematic/planned/deliberate sense of the term) and steady can and does still win the COMPLEX RACE (mostly against one's one inner demons and not against any external competitor!) called ZINDAGI!
Nice guys are real achievers, and not necessarily in the duniya-dari barometer, of paisa, gaadi, bangla, filmi apsara as biwi. et. al.
but they have one jama-punji which many of the sharks, so called street-smart guys generally lack and that is VIVEKAM!
They have the power of discretion, which helps them make the right decision, inevitably, in most situations. even if they make mistakes, they are keen to acknowledge it and correct themselves, including doing prayaschit; they are devoted to the truth/being conscientious and that has an unbeatable quality, which the 100 m dashers, the get-ahead-quickly-in-life types don't easily understand!
jai ho to Shakespeare, who said so eloquently : TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE AND THOU SHALL NOT BE UNTRUE TO ANYBODY ELSE!
and yes, nice guys seemingly finish last because they are true to themselves and their ideals!
but like the late Baba Amte (who certainly is a Bharat Ratna, in our hearts, doesn't matter if he actually gets the official one or not!) or Mahatma Gandhi (it is good that the nobel peace prize was never given to him, because he would have shuddered to think that the prize given to him is from a company which first invented the TNT/explosives, which for all its scientific usage has also got a number of negative, demonical usages! plus he certainly has won the hearts of people all the world, that is his prize and not a piece of gold/paper and a few lakhs of rupees!) have shown IT IS, INDEED, MORE IMPORTANT TO BE NICE, though it is nice to be important!
If one is really nice, one LASTS, AND OUTLASTS MOST 'fast-track' ghodas, jinki tain-tain-phus ho jaati hain jab vikat paristhithiyon ka lagatar samna karna padhti hain!
the nice, guy digs in, and with a calm, inner resolve, yes, GETS GOING, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH!
So, call a Laxman from Ramayana or from the cricket field! these nice guys are real winners, they don't win for themselves! THEY WIN FOR THE WORLD!
Hey, mahadev aise logo ki laaj rahen, taki duniya main acchai kayam rahen!
GOODNESS, ME! Goodness just for for goodness sake?!@!
yes, my dear! kyonki duniya kayam hain accho ki acchai par and unassuming/unexpectant goodness!
THE WORLD NEEDS THESE GOOD SAMARITANS!
OH, maaji chal, oh, maaji chal, tu chale to cham, cham baaje maujo ki payal, oh, maaji chal!
aashaon se tu naata jod de, yeh nirashaon ke bandhan tod de....!
ALAK NIRANJAN!
Jeet kaise nahin hogi!
sabka bhala mere ramji karen, through his gang of nice guys, who are spread all over the world, and who last, last and last, even if in some races they come last!
OVERWHELMED SOMETIMES, BUT NEVER FINISHED!
BEATEN MANY TIMES, BUT NEVER DEFEATED!
aise logo ki jai kaise nahin hogi!
Parapokare sajjanan lakshanam!
it is eternally true, though you may find a number of sajjans close to being paupers (like sudama!), but they are not in the money race,,,,
I rest my case, my dear honour!
abhi aage faisla aap kijiye!
MAIN TO CHALA JIDHAR CHALE RASTA!magar mujhe yeh bhi khabar hain ki KAHAN MERI MANZIL!
To round off with a great mehdi hassan ghazal : acchi baat kaho, acchi baat suno, acchai karo, aise jiyo, chahe yeh duniya burai karen, tum na burai karo!
THE GOODNESS IN THE GOOD IS NEVER FINISHED, THERE IS AN AKSHAYA PATRA OF GOODNESS (and not gold, fortunately!) in them, and jab woh hain, THEY CAN NEVER FINISH LAST! They will last and last, and they don't have to beat anybody else; the others just wither away and fall by the wayside!
hoshiyaar, bhai, sab hoshiyaar, kaun kisi ko bandh saka?! haan! saiyad to ek deewana hain, tod ke pinjara ek na ek dinn arre panchi ko udd jaana hain!
so, release that goodness in your heart! and do that without fear or expectations!
VIJAI APKI HI HOGI, KYONKI AAP KISI KA BURA NAHIN KAR RAHEN hain!
ab main chalta hoon! main derru karta nahin derru ho bhi jaati hain!
JHH!
the maverick shamaaan aus chennai!
They are running a different race altogether! the sprinters who run a short while and finish the race, quickly ahead of the nice guys (and nice girls, too!) think that they are ahead, but they are not in the same event! the nice people chug along at their own pace, no doubt, and sometimes appear to be going in the wrong/reverse direction, but they are clear in their minds, what they want to achieve, and back themselves, quietly and unobtrusively, under any circumstances! Yes, it is still true, slow (in the systematic/planned/deliberate sense of the term) and steady can and does still win the COMPLEX RACE (mostly against one's one inner demons and not against any external competitor!) called ZINDAGI!
Nice guys are real achievers, and not necessarily in the duniya-dari barometer, of paisa, gaadi, bangla, filmi apsara as biwi. et. al.
but they have one jama-punji which many of the sharks, so called street-smart guys generally lack and that is VIVEKAM!
They have the power of discretion, which helps them make the right decision, inevitably, in most situations. even if they make mistakes, they are keen to acknowledge it and correct themselves, including doing prayaschit; they are devoted to the truth/being conscientious and that has an unbeatable quality, which the 100 m dashers, the get-ahead-quickly-in-life types don't easily understand!
jai ho to Shakespeare, who said so eloquently : TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE AND THOU SHALL NOT BE UNTRUE TO ANYBODY ELSE!
and yes, nice guys seemingly finish last because they are true to themselves and their ideals!
but like the late Baba Amte (who certainly is a Bharat Ratna, in our hearts, doesn't matter if he actually gets the official one or not!) or Mahatma Gandhi (it is good that the nobel peace prize was never given to him, because he would have shuddered to think that the prize given to him is from a company which first invented the TNT/explosives, which for all its scientific usage has also got a number of negative, demonical usages! plus he certainly has won the hearts of people all the world, that is his prize and not a piece of gold/paper and a few lakhs of rupees!) have shown IT IS, INDEED, MORE IMPORTANT TO BE NICE, though it is nice to be important!
If one is really nice, one LASTS, AND OUTLASTS MOST 'fast-track' ghodas, jinki tain-tain-phus ho jaati hain jab vikat paristhithiyon ka lagatar samna karna padhti hain!
the nice, guy digs in, and with a calm, inner resolve, yes, GETS GOING, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH!
So, call a Laxman from Ramayana or from the cricket field! these nice guys are real winners, they don't win for themselves! THEY WIN FOR THE WORLD!
Hey, mahadev aise logo ki laaj rahen, taki duniya main acchai kayam rahen!
GOODNESS, ME! Goodness just for for goodness sake?!@!
yes, my dear! kyonki duniya kayam hain accho ki acchai par and unassuming/unexpectant goodness!
THE WORLD NEEDS THESE GOOD SAMARITANS!
OH, maaji chal, oh, maaji chal, tu chale to cham, cham baaje maujo ki payal, oh, maaji chal!
aashaon se tu naata jod de, yeh nirashaon ke bandhan tod de....!
ALAK NIRANJAN!
Jeet kaise nahin hogi!
sabka bhala mere ramji karen, through his gang of nice guys, who are spread all over the world, and who last, last and last, even if in some races they come last!
OVERWHELMED SOMETIMES, BUT NEVER FINISHED!
BEATEN MANY TIMES, BUT NEVER DEFEATED!
aise logo ki jai kaise nahin hogi!
Parapokare sajjanan lakshanam!
it is eternally true, though you may find a number of sajjans close to being paupers (like sudama!), but they are not in the money race,,,,
I rest my case, my dear honour!
abhi aage faisla aap kijiye!
MAIN TO CHALA JIDHAR CHALE RASTA!magar mujhe yeh bhi khabar hain ki KAHAN MERI MANZIL!
To round off with a great mehdi hassan ghazal : acchi baat kaho, acchi baat suno, acchai karo, aise jiyo, chahe yeh duniya burai karen, tum na burai karo!
THE GOODNESS IN THE GOOD IS NEVER FINISHED, THERE IS AN AKSHAYA PATRA OF GOODNESS (and not gold, fortunately!) in them, and jab woh hain, THEY CAN NEVER FINISH LAST! They will last and last, and they don't have to beat anybody else; the others just wither away and fall by the wayside!
hoshiyaar, bhai, sab hoshiyaar, kaun kisi ko bandh saka?! haan! saiyad to ek deewana hain, tod ke pinjara ek na ek dinn arre panchi ko udd jaana hain!
so, release that goodness in your heart! and do that without fear or expectations!
VIJAI APKI HI HOGI, KYONKI AAP KISI KA BURA NAHIN KAR RAHEN hain!
ab main chalta hoon! main derru karta nahin derru ho bhi jaati hain!
JHH!
the maverick shamaaan aus chennai!
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Enn thatha - 95 years young!
10.15 p.m. - IST. / 2nd February, 2008.
Enn iniya nanbargale (my dear friends!),
Indru enn oda thatha vin piranda naal (today is my grand-dad's birthday!). And no ordinary birth-day, it is his 96th, i.e. he has completed 95 years on this good, ol' planet called earth!
He has been proud of my exploits for long now, ippo it is payback time! I must be proud of this simple, great, young man! called my thatha!
He is the person who has the maximum ZEST FOR LIFE!
Tomorrow, he is sure to follow the first ODI between australia and india, just like a teenager would!
How come? A tremendous intellect, honesty of purpose, positive outlook to life, and never-say-die (literally, too, what say you?! i wished him a century in life! this morning, over the phone! okay, okay, will meet him in person, tomorrow) attitude and above all a genuineness and purity of thought and action. Which makes him fearless and full of energy and zip to attack each day, wiht gusto!
and yes, he still works! he is a trade marks lawyer, and has completed 70+ years of active practice at the MADRAS HIGH COURT.
autographs anyone? no, not necessary!
just introspect, what it is it in the 'grandparents' generation that makes them so delightfully young at heart?
introspect...
and write back...
in the meantime, let me figure out what sweets to buy for him, tomorrow?
and yes, he eats them a lot, a good appetite, too!
jai ho!
ek proud pota/peran/grandson!
Enn iniya nanbargale (my dear friends!),
Indru enn oda thatha vin piranda naal (today is my grand-dad's birthday!). And no ordinary birth-day, it is his 96th, i.e. he has completed 95 years on this good, ol' planet called earth!
He has been proud of my exploits for long now, ippo it is payback time! I must be proud of this simple, great, young man! called my thatha!
He is the person who has the maximum ZEST FOR LIFE!
Tomorrow, he is sure to follow the first ODI between australia and india, just like a teenager would!
How come? A tremendous intellect, honesty of purpose, positive outlook to life, and never-say-die (literally, too, what say you?! i wished him a century in life! this morning, over the phone! okay, okay, will meet him in person, tomorrow) attitude and above all a genuineness and purity of thought and action. Which makes him fearless and full of energy and zip to attack each day, wiht gusto!
and yes, he still works! he is a trade marks lawyer, and has completed 70+ years of active practice at the MADRAS HIGH COURT.
autographs anyone? no, not necessary!
just introspect, what it is it in the 'grandparents' generation that makes them so delightfully young at heart?
introspect...
and write back...
in the meantime, let me figure out what sweets to buy for him, tomorrow?
and yes, he eats them a lot, a good appetite, too!
jai ho!
ek proud pota/peran/grandson!
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