Mere Toote Dil Mein Koi Khwahish Na Rahi
Armaanon Ke Sab Raaste Soone Pade
Kyon Dua Bhi Meri Bani Aaj Bad-dua ?
Yeh Ehsaas Chahat Ke Sabhi Chubhne Lage

Kisse Kuchch Puraane Mil Gaye ... Rone Ke Bahaane Mil Gaye ...

Tujhe Bhoolna Bhi Chahoon To Na Bhula Sakoo
Tu Hi Bata Tere Bina Kaise Rahoon
Tu Jaane Na Sanam Gham Maine Kya Saha
Bikhre Mere Sapne Zameen Pe Tootke

Kisse Kuchch Puraane Mil gaye ... Rone Ke Bahaane Mil Gaye ...

Yaad Hai Woh Pehli Mulaqaat Yaad Hain
Yaad Hai Mujhe Woh Teri Har Ek Baat Yaad Hain
Woh Maheki Raatein Saari Saugaatein
Bheegi Meri Aankhon Se Aansoo Beh Chale


Kisse Kuchch Puraane Mil gaye ... Rone Ke Bahaane Mil Gaye ...

It is an era of plagiarism and IMO equally bad remixes. So I thought how bad can it be to actually extend someone else's work after of course giving full credit for the original ? So here goes.

Dil To Paagal Hain
*First 2 verses are from the original song, next 2 are mine

Pehli pehli baar milata hain yahi
Seene Mein Phir aag lagata hain
Dheere dheere pyaar sikhata hain yahi
Hasata hain yahi yahi rulata hain

Dil to paagal hain dil deewana hai

Saari saari raat jagaata hain yahi
Akkhiyon se neend churata hain
Sachche jhoote khwab dikhata hain yahi
Hasata hain yahi yahi rulata hain

Dil to paagal hain dil deewana hain

Din mahinen sal satata hain yahi
Bedardi se yeh tadpaata hain
Der se hamein ek baar samjhata hain yahi
Hasata hain yahi yahi rulata hain

Dil to paagal hain dil deewana hain

Sadiyon ke baad lautata hain yahi
Bhoole armaano ko jagata hain
Phir pal mein fanaa kar deta hain yahi
Mitata hain yahi khud mit bhi jata hain

Dil to paagal hain dil deewana hain

Where Art Thou Oh Friend ?

I need you right now. Not for help, I shall perhaps need the help later. But right now I need you to just be there for me. Just know what I am going through. I know I might not have kept in touch. But I need you now like never before. Please, wherever you are ... please come over ... please ...

Musical Relief

This is probably one of the toughest life situations I am going through and while I do not know what is going to happen or how I am going to come out of it if at all I am, but in the short term I have an exam coming up the day after and I need to start studying for that. Clearly I am in no frame of mind to give an exam but I have to suck it up and bull-headedly go after it. Luckily, I am not alone. I have my music with me. Thank you Raaga.com and Musicindiaonline.com. Music is simply great. It is hard to find any equivalent concept in this World that can be your best companion - above even your best friends, loved ones and good books. There may come a time when all of these might seem inadequate like they are doing now but I am banking on music to carry me through. So let us make a start now and tonight a night-out of studies it is going to be in the company of music. Veer Zaara it is to start things off.

Often on this blog I have posted lines from songs that I feel are suited to my mood of the moment. Often these are a bit of an exaggeration, mostly part of them fit while others don't. This particular one I'm writing however matches verbatim my state of mind, a beautiful Hemant Kumar number.

Rulakar Chal Diye; Ek Din
Hansi Bankar Jo Aaye The
Chaman Ro Ro Ke Kehta Hain
Kabhi Gul Muskuraye The

Agar Dil Ke Jubaan Hoti
Yeh Gham Kuchch Kam To Ho Jaata
Idhar Woh Chup Udhar Seene
Mein Hum Toofan Chhupaaye The

Yeh Achcha Tha Na Hum Kehte
Kisise Dastaan Apni
Samajh Paaye Na Jab Apne
Paraaye To Paraaye The

The (Anti) Butterfly Effect In Its Full Horror

I have tended to believe in the butterfly effect in every form. Sure the mathematical meaning is quite different but I also tend to appreciate and would like to believe its populist version: That a butterfly flapping its wings in China can affect the wheat production in Indonesia and cause thunderstorms in other parts of the World etc.

In fact I would like to take a step further and ask what if the corollary is also true ? Can it be possible that a butterfly that was supposed to flap its wings in China to keep the World order going failed to do so and that led to a horrible disaster like the tsunami in Indonesia ?? Quite plausible ain't it ?

Tangentially does the butterfly effect apply in time as it does in space ? Can the flapping of a wings (or lack of it) by a butterfly in Indonesia today affect the occurence or non-occurence of a tsunami some 2000 years in the future ?

Don't they say that words that once leave your mouth, you cannot control and can come back to haunt you in the future ?? Don't they say "Speech is silver, silence is golden." ?? All very fine but IMO paints a very one sided picture. What they fail to tell you is that what you did not say some time in the past may come back to horribly haunt you in the future and mess up the rest of your life. I have today been firmly convinced by what someone said at my graduation ceremony last year - "You will always regret more what you did not do than what you did".

Butterflies all over the World, flap your wings, at least that way no matter what the consequences you will not be left with the regret of what if.

Bhoola Afsana Koi
Gujra Zamaana Koi
Saathi Purana Koi
Banke Bahaana Koi
Agar Dil Mein Woh
Sama Jaaaye Toh
Yeh Dil Kya Kare?

Us Paar Reh Na Sake
Is Paar Aa Naa Sake
Kehna Tha Keh Na Sake
Chup Bhi To Reh Na Sake
Main Bechain Hoon
Tu Betaab Hain
Yeh Dil Kya Kare?

A situation has occurred in life that makes me want to reminisce on these beautiful lyrics from a favorite song of mine.

Anjaane Hoton Par Kyon Pehchane Geet Hain ?
Kal Tak Jo Begaane The, Janmon Ke Meet Hain.
O Mitwa Re, Kal Tak Jo Begaane The Janmon Ke Meet Hain
Kya Hoga Kaun Se Pal Mein, Koi Jaane Na.

Isn't it amazing when you suddenly begin to feel someone's emotions be they pain or joy because you have been through a very similar experience ? You really do begin to see the World in a different light, from the eyes of that person, and you appreciate him/her like never before.

Trouble

I am being troubled these days. I know what it is about. I can’t do anything about it. I want to do something about it. I want to get over it. Move past it and lead a life unfettered by it. Accomplish something wonderful and then laugh down on this thing that is troubling me, mocking it, like it is mocking me right now, telling it “Look you tried your best to pull me down and you failed and I succeeded.”

But right now it is the trouble that is having the upper hand. How long will this situation last? When will I be able to turn things around?

Writer's Block ?

I can’t think of what to write. Every time I try to write something I feel like taking the easier option of surfing the net. Really what kind of a necessary evil this World of laptops and wireless connections is.