Gafil

Ho sakta hai woh achha dost tumhare darwaze pe dastak deta raha ho aur tum kahin ander neend main gafil so rahe ho?

Best friend

I consider him my best friend because he speaks my faults, deficiencies, blind spots, and manipulations nakedly and bluntly to my face.

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looking at roof

"looking at roof" is an art of saying that "I am not interested" !!

Nasru

Main amma, abba aur choti jis ki umer us waqt koi 18 ya 19 mahine rahi hogi wapas aaye to makan ka main gate khula huwa tha. Abba ne kaha: "Nasru hoga". Amma ne jawab diya: "Woh to ab is duniya main hi nahi hai, woh kese hoga"!!

Nasru meri khala ka beta tha. Mirgi ke jhatkon ne uska dimag kamzor ker diya tha. Aaye din apne ghar walon se jhagarta rehta aur jab jhagra hota hamare ghar aa jata. Phir aik din mirgi main ooper ki manzil se gir ker faut ho gaya magar log batate hain ghar waale baat chupa gaye - asal main usne ooper se kud ker khudkushi ker li thi.


Hum pareshan ghar main dakhil huwe to hamare parosi ke kai kutton main se 2 kutte ander khare bhonk rahe the. Hamare bhagane pe woh bhonkte apne makan ka bara darwaza phalang ker chale gaye magar dusre hi lamhe baqi kutton ke saath bhonkte huwe warid huwe. Hum sab dar ke maare ander bhage aur apne makan ka darwaza band kerne lage. Choti bahir khari reh gai. Aik kutta us ke qareeb bhonk raha tha. Jaan ko khatra tha magar koi chara na tha, main bahir bhaga aur choti ko utha laaya. Kutton ne hum pe humla nahi kiya. Humare makan ka darwaza uncha tha magar phir bhi dar ke maare hum ander ghus aaye.

Ab sochta hun to lagta hai kutte hume kuch batana chahte the. Humla kerna hota to pehle hi ker dete yun bhonkte na rehte. Suna hai kutton ko ruh nazar aati hai. 

Kiya Nasru ab bhi hamare ghar aata tha.

Principles of human relationships

One of the most crucial objectives of human life is to learn the principles of human relationships.

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Wounds (Faiz)

Tere azaar ka chaara nahi
nishtar ke siwa
aur ye saffak maseeha
mere qabze main nahi
Is jahan ke kisi zee-rooh
ke qabze main nahi
haan magar tere siwa
tere siwa tere siwa

- Faiz


Your wound has no option
except scalpel
and that brutal masseha
is not in my control
not even under power of
any living soul of this planet
yes but only you can (do that)
only you, only you !

Beta (A Picture)

Photo from Yannis Kontos for Polaris Images is First place, Contemporary Issues Singles. A boy helps his father to dress in Sierra Leone. (I didn't see dad's missing arms till I uploaded image).

On "our childhood"

Its not a good idea to post forwarded e-mails here but I found this one really interesting.

"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?"

"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the food was slow."

"C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"

"It was a place called 'at home,'" I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it."

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levi's, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.

My parents never drove me to soccer practice.

We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger.

I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.

We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut at least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

New York

Something about New York makes it different from all other cities. As Pope John Paul said: NY is the capital of humanity.

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A picture

Photo of Finbarr O'Reilly for Reuters is World Press Photo of the Year. A mother and child at an emergency feeding centre in Tahoua, Niger, taken in August, 2004

Hanwriting

You can tell about a person by looking at 4 lines of his handwriting.

Good friends

Zindagi main kuch itne pyare dost milte hain ke barson guzrne ke baad bhi kahin na kahin se yaad aa jaate hain. 

Exhaustion

"Daddy! Why your shoes are in the kitchen."

"Beta! I came home very late last night, and I was exhausted."

"It should be in the closet."

"Well, you will know when you are grown up."

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We are like radio frequencies

Our brain is like a radio station with frequencies like FM1, FM2, AM, etc. 

In sleep, we shut off one frequency and float on another. In an awake state, channels from sleep shut off. Our astral body has a vibration of its own. We all thrive on different waves receiving and transmitting to living and nonliving beings across the universe. 

As someone said: "Our thoughts and said words never die." And as Einstein said: "We all dance to the tune of nature."

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Roohain

Woh roohain bhi hoti hain jo haamre aas paas rehti hain, hamen zindagi guzarte dekhti hain magar tang nahi kertin - haan jab kubhi hame taklif main ya mushkil main jaate dekh nahi saktin to aa jati hain baat kerne aur haan kubhi thappar bhi maar deti hain !!

Bigre chehre wala aadmi

Us bigre chehre waale aadmi ki bhi kahani kuch ajeeb hai. Ma ne waqt se do mahine pehle janam de diya. Suna hai, itna kamzor tha ke bari masheri ke beech rakhte the ke koi bagair dekhe beth hi na jaaye. Sub ko uthane ki ijazat bhi na thi. Isi main, bachpun hi se aik aankh main nuqs bhi reh gaya. Paanch baras ka huwa to naye mulk ki hijrat aan pari. Jahan laakhon kahanian likhi gain wahin aik choti si kahani us ki bhi thi ke baap kho gaya. Naye mulk ke khawab jab pet ki aag se chaknachoor huwe to bachpan hi main kaam kerne ma ke saath factory jaana para. Gurbat aur bimari ka choli daman ka saath hai. Pehle choti choti bimarian rehti thin phir darde-shikam jo laga to zindagi ke aath baras ke saath saath badan bhi kha gaya. Jawani main kai lurkion se ishq huwa per kaun mun lagata. Phir aik aam si mun-phat aurat se biha diya gaya. In sub ke saath, muaashre ki na-insaafion ki roz ki daastan ne us ke sochne ka andaaz aur cheezon ko dekhne parakhne ka tariqa sub se judagana ker diya. Ab woh kisi mehfil main 'fit' nahi hota.

Woh bigre chehre wala aadmi.

Dor

Ye kese ho sakta hai ke tum ne mujhe yaad kiya ho aur mere dil ne mujhe bataya na ho.

Ajeeb Mian Biwi

Woh dono bhi ajeeb mian biwi the.
Aik dum se barson ke liye gaib ho gaye.

Kuch saalon pehle woh biwi ke kisi rishtedar ke haan chutian guzaarne gaye the. Khubsurat jagah thi. Paharon ke tale, jharne aur jheel ki waadi main, us lamhe biwi ne mian se kaha yahin reh jaate hain aur us ne kaha theek hai. Barson baad ab kisi sarkari kaam se wahan gaya to mulaqat hui. Chehre pe wahi taazgi, khushi aur muskurahat thi.

Aese hi koi kahin reh jaata hai?
Ajeeb mian biwi the!

On "saying NO"

Found this quote on net and copied it:

“A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” - Mahatma Gandhi