श्यामल_मेघ सिर्फ़ गगनाच्छादित नहीं होते… वो अंतर आकाश में भी उमड़ते घुमड़ते हैं और जब भावनाओं की आर्द्रता पहुँच जाती है अपने क्रांतिक बिन्दु तक.. तो हो जाते हैं चश्मेनम …! और… तब होता है सही मायनों में संगम अंतर और वाह्य जगत में गूँजते हुए राग मेघ मल्हार का…! और तब होता है प्रत्यक्षबोध इन पंक्तियों में अंतर्निहित गूढ़ार्थ का— “आज श्याम सपने …
मेघ मल्हार
मेरे ऊपर घिरी घटाओं..! अच्छा लग रहा है तुम्हारा यह चातुर्दिक विस्तार बावज़ूद इस कम रोशनी के धरा प्रमुदित है पुष्पित और पल्लवित हो रही है आशाओं के नवांकुर फूट रहे है और- पुरातन अंकुर बन कर तरू झूम रहे हैं… देखो तो जरा कौन आया है मेरी छत के मुंडेर पर बड़े हो चुके शहतूत को देखने एक छोटी सी बच्ची… जो इस …
Kya Karein Saala, Character Dheela Hai !!
In the last few days ‘Heroes’ of two countries had been in news for the wrong reasons or should I say found themselves on the wrong side of the ‘Law’. Both were very popular national icons, both had their careers on the line and both had millions if not billions of rupees/dollars riding on them. What set them apart was the way they handled the crises …
Organ donations and dropped catches !!
Some time back the sports section of the Times of India, carried a small story at the bottom of the page about our 83 World Cup winning team’s famed wicket keeper Syed Kirmani – first pledging his eyes for organ donation and then very soon retracting from his pledge ! Before we discuss about the possible reasons and the implications of his seemingly uncharacteristic …
Of Gods, Farishtas and my brief study of Psychiatry !!
As any other child growing up in the late seventies and eighties I had a lot of ‘free time’ to ponder about questions like who made the universe, how big is it, what lies beyond and so on. Incidentally, God was also a past time topic of thoughts. Our interaction with God was limited to just a few yearly havans, small fascinating stories and …
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How to Kill A Tree
The tree had stood there for centuries. It belonged to a time before time. It had seen the Mughals come and go, seen the English rulers ravage the countryside and then witnessed the liberation of the country and the changes that independence brought about. It had seen the small town grow to a city and the city to a metropolitan. It had watched the …
Why We Still Need God!
We were returning after conducting an examination in another city. The small cavalcade of cars sped along the highway in the gathering dusk, their headlights bobbing up and down, slicing the darkness ahead and occasionally catching a stray animal in its glare. All of us were eager to get back home and deposit the examination booklets at the University office, before finally being …
