दिये जलते हैं, दिये बुझते हैं
दिये जलते हैं,
दिये बुझते हैं,
हम चुप हैं, हम खुश हैं,
हमारे आसपास सब जगमग है |
वो जाने वाला अपना नहीं,
तो क्या वो किसी का सपना नहीं ?
उसका भी तो कोई परिवार होगा,
कोई अनाथ, किसी का तो सिन्दूर बेकार होगा |
माना तुम्हारा बड़ा नाम, बड़ा ही सम्मान है,
पर वो भी कोन सा गुमनाम है,
हाँ शायद कोई समाधी न हो, कोई स्मारक न हो,
एक भी दिन उस तस्वीर को फूल मुबारक न हो |
ये तुम्हारी वो रोज़ की बात नहीं,
किसी के पास थामने को अब वो हाथ नहीं,
श्याम का इंतेज़ार भी ख़त्म हो गया,
ज़िन्दगी भर हँसाने वाला, आज खुद ही सो गया |
कितनी ही आँखें रोते-रोते यूँ नम है,
तमाशा हुआ ख़त्म, तुम्हे किस बात का गम है ?
जी लेंगे वो, तुम्हारे किसी सहारे बिना,
बना लेंगे हस्ती, जीवन से हारे बिना |
घिन आती है, तुम्हारी इस झूठी मजबूरी पर,
मुँह में राम, बगल में छूरी पर,
मैं क्यूँ बताऊँ की तुम्हे क्या करना है,
जी लो दो दिन ऐसे, फिर तो तुम्हे भी मरना है |
दिये जलते हैं,
दिये बुझते हैं,
हम खुश हैं, हम चुप हैं,
हमारे आसपास सब जगमग है |
Love and Marriage Funda
I usually hate forwarded emails but sometimes they are so very awesome. I got this one and I just love it. So very true and yet so very simple. 
A student asks a teacher, “What is love?”
The teacher said, “in order to answer your question, go to the wheat
field and choose the biggest wheat and come back.
But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn
back to pick.”
The student went to the field, go thru first row, he saw one big
wheat, but he wonders….may be there is a bigger one later.
Then he saw another bigger one…. But may be there is an even bigger
one waiting for him.
Later, when he finished more than half of the wheat field, he
start to realize that the wheat is not as big as the previous one he
saw, he know he has missed the biggest one, and he regretted.
So, he ended up went back to the teacher with empty hand.
The
teacher told him, “…this is love… You keep looking for a better
one, but when later you realise, you have already miss the person….”
“What is marriage then?” the student asked.
The
teacher said, “in order to answer your question, go to the corn field
and choose the biggest corn and come back. But the rule is: you can go
through them only once and cannot turn back to pick.”
The student went to the corn field, this time he is careful not
to repeat the previous mistake, when he reach the middle of the field,
he has picked one medium corn that he feel satisfy, and come back to
the teacher..
The teacher told him, “this time you bring back a corn…. You
look for one that is just nice, and you have faith and believe this is
the best one you get…. This is marriage.”
The heartache of a sin
I feel like carrying a burden
like I have done something wrong
which has left this tough man less strong
and I’m aware, know exactly since when
this feeling of guilt has been haunting me
and it goes to the extent that it teases,
sure it hurts more than any of the diseases
and kills me inside so very gently
I never even knew, it could hurt you but
the way you’ve felt it makes my heart sink
from the unease it causes, just makes me rethink,
Am I the damn reason for all this blood??
that never comes outside but somehow clots
the freewill of expression, the freedom to say,
keeps on pushing the hearts far and far away
and I’m left alone judging each of my thoughts
I feel sorry for it, and no more can I bend
for even you’ve convinced me it’s a mighty sin
and it stabs me slowly, very slowly from within
cause how can I punish myself though it offends
you, but it was not illegal, it was not a crime
what should be my sentence, what should be the price
who will give the reply, who’ll be so precise
to decide the suffering I should owe this time?
I know it’s me who’ll have to make me pay
though all the friends say it’s just a mistake
they tell me she’s a bitch, she is all fake
but how can I watch her blame me every day
how can I make it up if the fault is mine
though she’s not all correct, she’s not so kind
but I’m sure this time around, she is quite determined
and I know nothing can make my wrong rightly shine
Excuses I have, excuses they suggest
for I’m young to die, to get close to a knife
or to let it flow in tears, and to live a dull life
but I’m the one who carries on the protest
for I’m the judge and I, myself am the culprit
neither can I let off, nor can I be too hard
Should I crave while walking every yard
Can I find the way out of this deep ditch???
Good or Bad – Part 1
Posted by Rohan in Good Or Bad on June 24th, 2009
I have started this new category- Good or Bad where I wanna talk about all the guys who have influenced and are influencing me.I haven’t yet decided to name everyone of them because we always have formed opinions from the day one after we meet anyone, though it keeps on changing.
This post is dedicated to the person who influenced my life in the second semester at IIT Delhi- Dr. Amitabh Tripathi who is something which all the 2008 entry mathematics and computing guys won’t forget/will remember for a lifetime. (At least I’ll do.)
The Good Dr.Amitabh Tripathi
- Impressive in his voice tone. Talks clearly, and attracts you to learn w whole lot more from him. Got a great language skills
(I don’t know what will he attribute it to – Stephens or his PhD period)
- Highly interactive. Talks on everything without judging you. That’s a great human quality. He doesn’t demotivate you and at times, even goes to the extent of motivating you.
(After finishing his course, many of guys have realized that when he was making us freak out of fear, he was motivating us may be because he knew what we did with other courses won’t help us here 
)
- Got a good sense of humor. (Sarcastic and Dry)
- No attendance (though I attended the most number of maths classes among all the lectures)
- Highly talented in Table Tennis, Carom and Number Theory ( I guess so…. )
- Hates IIT System ( The academic structure)
- Wants the dept. to get more prof’s so that the dept. guys can get good electives. (He expressed this thought, no one else cares I guess)
- He could have been lot worse in many situations. I am relieved it’s over.
The Bad Dr. Amitabh Tripathi
- He seems unfair at time.
(Defended the TA because he comes from a poor background but did not give us enough time to study connectedness and compactness and even made a sarcastic comment that it requires at least two weeks to study these topics but you just do it in 5 days because you’ll have to suffer/face this because I did it during my time)
- He’s as interested as the students in teaching and making things look interesting. (Something common in him and other Professors)
- Hates IIT system ( )
(Knows the truth behind clearing JEE which we dint know when we were studying hard for it 
, has no mercy if we have cleared JEE and came here somehow)
That’s all I guess. I was seriously interested in doing Number Theory in third sem but the things got messed up in the end. The look at his face was not very encouraging for me to have a casual talk with him and even at my side, I wasn’t really all that confident. In spite of all that has happened, in spite of 60 % of guys who have got failed , and 4 lucky guys who passed with begging marks, I have learnt a lot from him (about life) (which can work well without (mathematical) analysis ).
PS – Looking forward for the DE (Department Elective) In fifth sem. Hope to get the confidence back.
PS- I feel bad about getting flunked but more so about the circumstances that later prevailed
PS- Even if I say something I don’t like, I have to be the part of the system, we have to be the part of the system. We can’t really get out of it. When we compromise with situations, why wouldn’t he and even then as I said the prof’s are as interested as we are, no one is willing to take charge. That’s bad for everyone.
Isn’t it Racism?
I have started this new category arbit where I have decided to highlight some important events or things influencing me or the world around me more frequently. Contrary to the thought category, I have decided to be less conclusive and descriptive because sometimes a few words say a long story and the story is different for all of us .
This is in reference to President Obama making a speech to the american students which I would like to highlight here as well.
Chicago, Jun 12
US President Barack Obama today emphasised the need for improving the country’s education system as its students have to compete with Indian and Chinese kids, who spend more time in school and less time playing “video games”.
Obama said while at one time America produced the highest number of school and college graduates, Ph.Ds, engineers and scientists, it has fallen behind now and is no longer “head and shoulders above other countries when it (comes) to education”.
“We have got to pick up the pace because the world has gotten competitive. The Chinese, the Indians are coming at us and they are coming at us hard, and they are hungry and they are really buckling down,” Obama said at a town hall meeting in neighbouring Wisconsin.
“Their (Indian and Chinese) kids watch a lot less TV than our kids do, play a lot fewer video games, they are in the classroom a lot longer,” he said.
At present, the US is in the “middle” and has settled into “mediocrity” among wealthy, advanced, industrialised countries. There is need to improve and step up its game as its kids are falling behind when it comes to science and math, Obama said.
I believe there are traces of racism involved. Obama is using americans as a term for resident americans which I think is not right on his part. If Indians/Chinese who come to study in US or got their degrees from anywhere else come to US and contribute to US economy then why is it an issue? Aren’t they equally american??? US has always welcomed people from abroad but over the last couple of years things have got tough. Yes, this is true that the american-born are not as good academically as the Indians/Chinese if we consider an average basis but this doesn’t mean the inspiration has to be comparitive in nature which definitely counts as frustration being channeled this way. The real concern is the slow economic growth and high unemployment but please find some better ways and better comments Mr. President.
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Why so serious???
