On "advantage of poverty"

The advantage of growing up in poverty is that it gives a person an extra edge in later life, brings resilience, and keeps a lot of burdens off in making calculative decisions.

On "rudeness"

If you are not pleasant it's ok - but it puts an extra burden on you to be good in your work.

Parents

Ma-baap to darakht ki thandi chahun hote hain - sari duniya se khel kud ke wahin aaram milta hai. 

Fuel, Knowledge & Character

There is so much infinite knowledge around - you will never be able to read everything BUT make sure you continue to acquire enough fuel to raise the stature of your character.

words

As you grow older, you realize that you need only few words to live!

A woman

What a portrait !!

 Found at: http://community.afghanmania.com/

Childhood

Saw this picture somewhere on net and it just struck my nerve. I recalled my own childhood: those streets, walls, gutter, friends.

Ye Daulat Bhi Le Lo, Ye Shohrat Bhi Le Lo

No one is INDISPENSABLE

 "Listen, my friend: this is a myth that someone is INDISPENSABLE. People replace people. The new person might not be as suitable as you, but he may get better than you over time, and people will forget about you."

40 years

Ye koi ittifaq to nahi ke Islam ke Muhammad ko nabuwwat 40 baras ki umer main mili.

Snow

Kiya jis shaher main baraf girti hai uske makeen us shaher se mukhtalif hote hain jahan baraf nahi girti? 

Parenting license

After reading this story, don't you feel that there should be a license to be a father or mother.


Police: 7-year-old at wheel after hit-and-run

Sunday, December 11, 2005; Posted: 7:11 a.m. EST (12:11 GMT)

FLEMINGSBURG, Kentucky (AP) -- Police got a surprise when they stopped a van following a hit-and-run crash on Kentucky's Mountain Parkway: A 7-year-old boy was at the wheel, sitting on his father's lap. When police caught up with the van on Interstate 64, Waters was working the foot pedals and his son Cody was on his lap steering, Clark County Sheriff's Deputy Ricky Estes said. He described Waters as "semiconscious."
"He said he was en route to Florida, and his son was going to get him there," Estes said. Waters' 3-year-old son was also in the van, Estes said. He said it appeared Waters had been living out of the vehicle.
The children were taken by social services. Waters, meanwhile, faces several charges, including resisting arrest, carrying a concealed deadly weapon, leaving the scene of an accident and driving under the influence.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/11/young.driver.ap/index.html

.JanaN JanaN

Beautiful poem from Ahmad Faraz. Just found on net so saved it.

Fortunates Parents

Khush naseeb hote hain woh ma-baap jin ke bachhe rote huwe unhe lahed main utarte hain. 

3 Magical phrases

Tell your kids: There are 3 magical phrases in this world.

Thank you - Sorry - Please

A Native-Indian Saying

I loved this American-Indian saying: "If you get in trouble with someone, just sit back, wait, and pass more rope so he can hang himself"!!

Relation

It took me 4 years to understand why he always said - Mother of my son!!

warsa

Kiya yeh sach hai ke waaldain ke aamal aulad ko bhugatne parte hain?

Stupid smart

He said: "I was stupid to get married but smart to get kids"!

One Line

She had unusual lines on her palm, and all lines were deep and intense except for one line, which was all destroyed, running vertically in the middle of the palm.

Let it snow

Whenever loftiest part of nature smiles - it snow!!

Let it snow - Let it snow - Let it snow

Abdullah

The whole game is to cross the line of being "His Servant"!!

Milk

Yes! It makes me believe in God to see that baby's food is ready for her arrival most naturally and beautifully!

On "One precious thing"

There is nothing to fear about death. Everyone has to embark on that journey sooner or later. But I just give a damn about only one thing. One most mysterious and amazing things also die with each death - a brain !!

Boston

There is a city named - Boston. You hear the name and say: "Sir!"

Bol !!

Its important to write. One day your kids will read your writings !!! As Faiz said:

bol ye thoRa waqt bahut hai
jism-o-zabaN ki maut se pehlay

Job

I said to my son: "We all go to school. My job is my school".

Elders in house

Jis ghar se buzurg khatam ho jaayain aur buzurgon ki tasveerain tak deewaron se utar li jaayain wahan saqafat aur riwayat nahi rehti! - hur nasal apna naya khel kehlti hai. 

Abrasive humor

I liked the beauty of abrasive humor as it speaks naked truth on your face, but you don't feel offended!

Internet's dark side

Addiction to the internet is way more complex as it is way more intellectual. It destroys careers, families, relationships, and characters but, beyond all, may even cause death !!. This is the second death I read about in the last few months related to "Net":

Friday, November 11, 2005; Posted: 3:09 a.m. EST (08:09 GMT)

(CNN) -- Suzanne Gonzales seemed to have everything going for her. A bubbly 19-year-old with loving parents and good friends, she was also a strong student and earned a science scholarship for college. But everything changed one spring day two years ago, when Suzanne's parents, Mike and Mary Gonzales, received the following e-mail.
"Dear Mom, Dad, and Jennifer, I will make this short as I know. It will be hard to deal with. If you haven't heard by now, I've passed away," the e-mail read.

Alone in a Florida hotel room, just miles from her college apartment, Suzanne methodically prepared and swallowed a lethal cocktail of potassium cyanide, lay down on the bed and died. But Suzanne's case has an unusual twist. She frequented an Internet newsgroup called called ASH, short for Alt.Suicide.Holiday. Members of this news group trade advice on how to commit suicide....

 Read one ASH message from a person named "River.", and the full story along with group's reply at http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/04/suicide.internet/index.html

Fishing

You know why people love fishing. As you catch fish and see her 'wiggle' and 'prison' entirely in your power - it gives immense pleasure to your ego, and that's what fishing is all about !!

Mountain

There is no bigger mountain than knowledge and there is no deeper ditch than knowledge!

woh kaun thi

Us gaaun main sare-shaam se hi aik ajib sa aehsaas rehta tha. Bijli bhi aksar gaaib rehti thi. Youn lugta tha jese us gaun main baarish bhi kuch ziyada hi hoti thi. 'Cul de sac' pe band andheri gulabi rang ki chaar manzila imarat ke baare main log kehte the 'aaseb zada' hai magar poora gaaun aur us ke makeen hi aaseb zada lagte the. Main ne aur meri biwi ne aik lukRe se bane makan main ghar liya tha jis ke aage ke farsh ke takhte ukhRe huwe the.

Paros ke makan main rehne waali behnon main se aik larki hamare haan aati jaati thi. Saanwli aur moti si thi aur plastic ke frame wali ainak lagati thi. Aik din woh mere lihaf main zabardasti meri taango ke beech ghush aai...meri biwi ghar main thi. main ne use zabardasti nikala magar phir bhi meri biwi ki nazar par gai. Ajib larki thi, us ne meri biwi ke saamne mere hont chum liye. Meri biwi ke tan badan main aag lag gai. Hum gaaun main naye the. Main ne jhagra munaasib na samjhte huwe use samjhane ki kaushih ki: 'Dekho ye meri biwi hai aur mujhe chumne ka huq sirf ise hai' magar woh dhamki de ker chali gai: "main use kahun gi tumhe dekh le'.

Hum ne woh gaaun chor diya aur shaher aa gaye. Aik subah bister pe yun mehsoos huwa jese kisi ne mere kaan main siti bajaai aur koi jese mere sir pe sawar ho gaya. Jese mere dimag ko bijli ke jhatke lag rahe hon ya mirgi ka daura ho. Mera saans bikul ruk gaya. Main ne mehsoos kiya "woh" wahin hai. Meri biwi ki aankh khul gai aur mujhe aik jhalak yun mehsoos hui jese woh chali gai. Meri biwi na kaha: "woh yanhi thi. woh yanhi thi" !!

Mera saans bahaal hone main kuch waqt laga...Woh kaun thi - lumbe baalon wali patli dubli sufed libas main nikhre rang aur gol mun wali !!

Raising a happy kid

If you want to raise happy kids, let them walk once they learn to walk!!

raising the bar

If we think that at age 18 - kids are mature enough to make wise decisions in life without parental support - I am afraid we may need to raise that bar to age 36 !!

Aurat ke Zewar

He instructed his son on his wedding: "Never ask back the money you gave to your woman and never even in your dreams think about her jewelry"!

unfortunate

How unfortunate is the mother - whose child wants to put her head on her chest to sleep, but she puts her into the crib!

Biggest flaw of human mind

Biggest flaw of human mind is to establish absolute postulation despite having blind spots and limited information.

Stage

One sign of achievement of one basic level (of knowledge) - if someday, with confidence, you can say: "I don't know this."

Paradox of Relationships

I have known JB for the last five years. Most women around him just can't stand him, and he has been called into the office, written, and counseled many times for anti-feminist remarks. But he told me he did not have a single fight in his 16 years of marriage. His woman makes him so happy that he will jump from a building for her!!

I have known MK for the last five years. I always acknowledge him as a 'perfect man.' Physically he is like a perfect Greek hero. He is intelligent, earns money in the highest bracket, is exceptionally cool-headed, and works 14-16 hours a day to provide all luxury to his extravaganza wife and three kids (spending spare time with them). His wife is divorcing him!!

(2 actual incidents).

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Enough to break me

This one picture from earthquake zone was enough to break me.

Escape from in between...

And she always arrived at work 2 hours early as she lived in a house where her soul, her daughter, lived - but there also lived a man she hated every second of her life !!

daldal

Aur us park main 

woh dhaki daldal 

kai bachhon 

ko nigal gai

us kamre ka woh sheesah

And on the mirror of that room, 

every dead's date of death 

get posted 

with the sketch of death. 

Accountant

He instructed his daughter: "Never marry an accountant!! He may provide you with all calculated necessities of life but may not be able to see the boundless joy of doing 'crazy and silly' things together."

Unworth!!

Never trust a person who can not keep his promise with a child!!

Coconut

Recieved this in chain email but loved it !!!

Why Coconut is part of many religions' rituals?

The fruit is unique in many respects. The sweet, nectar-like water that it holds, is pure and untouched by the human hand. It is drawn by the tree from its very base to its highest level. The coarsely-knit outer fibres of the coconut represent the jealousy, greed, lust, selfishness and other vices of man, which must be broken up and removed if one is to penetrate and reach the sweet untouched nectar of spiritual purity and bliss. No other fruit has the three distinct, eyes of the coconut. These symbolise the three eyes of man - the two physical eyes plus the third or 'inner eye'. Only this 'inner eye' can penetrate the false, outer facade and reach the ultimate truth. The composition of the coconut is characteristic of the three elements of man. The hard, outer shell, with its course fibres, represent the physical composition. The inner white fruit represents man's psychological element, and the untouched water signifies his spiritual composition.

(l)earn Trust

To be a 'successful' businessperson -
you need to (l)earn only one word - trust.

Qalam ki aazma'ish

Qalam ki aazma'ish dosti se ijtinab hai!!

Money

I was trying to teach a mentally challenged kid the right way of doing things. I said: "Every time you trash things properly, I will give you one Quarter," and she replied: "But what will I do with that quarter?"

She taught me a big lesson: Before striving for money, at least know what you will do with that money! Also, should we always look for rewards to do things correctly? 

On buying cheap stuff

Someone rightly said: "I am not rich enough to buy cheap stuff" !!

Don't we buy things twice if it is of cheap quality?

Nightmare

And when thousands of miles away, his brother was captivated in deep mental anguish - he woke up from a diaphoretic nightmare. He saw his brother in a dark old house (Haveli), struggling to find his way out!!

Connected by cough!!

They both hated each other deeply, but when their child started coughing, they seemed to forget everything!!

Name and Fate

Yes! Our names do affect our fates.

Ma!

Aur jab zamane ki uftad ne hame aa liye to woh hum sab se ziyada dar gaya - aur phir us ne hum se kaha - Main zara (aik saal ke bachhe ki tarah) apni ma ke kaandhe se lag aaun!!

Teens

If you put all the teens in the same room, and if nobody is watching them - they will behave exactly the same!!

What kind of a person you are?

If you ever get time, read Drs. Rick' book: "Dealing With People You Can't Stand"- 

Drs. Ricks have described 10 kinds of personalities - Tank, Grenade, Sniper, Know-it-Alls, Think-they-know-it-alls, Whiner, Yes, Maybe, No, and Nothing people!

Judge your personality.

Ya Khuda!!

Qudratullah Shahab ne "Ya Khuda" likh ker urdu adab ka qarz utar diya!! 

It proves that to write, you must rise above personality, relationships, beliefs, religion, politics, nation and patriotism. Writer's pen just run on the nib of truth, with the ink of emotion and on the burning paper of frustration.

On "evil of alarm clock"

One of the evils of the modern age is the alarm clock. Once you wake up with trrrrrrrrr of an alarm clock, your mind suddenly loses inner touch with your subconscious. Making a habit of waking up by yourself while slowly coming from a semi-sleep state to an awake state keeps you a more non-materialist person in life - as the whole day you don't lose your focus from your inner to outer "maya" world.

Also, try this - as you get into the habit of waking up by yourself - you will wake up with easy and more peaceful solutions and answers to many difficult situations in your life.

(No, I am not crazy)!!

Untimely death?

If I knew 

she would die next day, 

I would have talk to her 

few more moments.

On "Men's respect"

Waaldain ki maut, mentally retarded bhai ke bojh aur ghar bethi bin-bihai bari bahen ne us larki ko shadi se pehle hi bohat siyana ker diya tha, jab us ne barson pehle mujhe ye sabq sikhaya:

"Mard ghar main ziyada rehne lage to apni izzat kho deta hai. Jab tak woh bahir hai aur roti kama raha hai, us ka waqar hai" !!!

Religion and Homosexuality

Personally, I found most gays better human beings than others. But unfortunately, strictly (again read it: strictly), from almost all religions' point of view - it's forbidden.

Bare Leader

Shayed ye 1948 ka, pakistan banne ke baad ka zamana tha aur eid ka din raha hoga. Karachi ke governor house ke bahir aik lambe tarange patle duble maheen shakhs se milne ke liye logon ki lambi qatar lagi thi. Maze ki baat hai, us shaks ke gird koi security nahi thi aur yun mehsoos hota tha jese us shaks ko is baat ki parwah bhi nahi. 

Sarak ke dusri taraf main aik dusre adeeb ke saath baag ke ik bench pe betha ye nazara dekh raha tha. Mera bhi dil kerta tha ke ja ke us shaks se haat milaun ke shayed ye shaks bohut arse zinda na rahe magar logon ki lambi qataar jo subh se ab dopher aane pe bhi khatam na hui thi, dekh ker ruk jata. Ab bhi koi 250 log rahe honge jo najaane kab se intizaar kiye honge. Achanak us shaks ne ander jaane ka faisla kiya aur khare logoN ki qataar ko chor ke apni lambi lambi taangoN se lambe lambe dig bharta ander chala gaya. Us chaal main koi jhijhak na thi, sirf bharpur aitamad, itminan aur waqar tha. 

Kuch ne kaha - Sahab ne zara khayal na kiya in logon ka magar main sochta raha shayed bare leader wahi bante hain jo faisla kerte hain aur kur guzarte hain. Faisle main lohe ka irada rakhte hain. Waqti tor pe kuch logon ke dil dukh jaane ki parwah kub kerte hain. 

Woh shaks Mohammad Ali Jinnah tha jise us ke log QuaideAzam bulate the.

(A tell from a person who witnessed creation of Pakistan)

Mom ki guryain

Hamare mulk ke har mohalle main kam-az-kam Jilani Banu ki aik 'Mom ki Guriya' zaroor rehti hai.

Teacher-Parent contact

I don't think it's a good idea if both parents go to teacher-parent conferences. Let either mom or dad be a contact thread to avoid multiple theories regarding kids' behavior at school.

(I know many parents will disagree)

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Krishan Chandar on French women

Krishan Chandar describes the French woman in the following way: "French woman is the best lover, but if she wishes to be a mother, then you will not find a better mother than she. French woman carries all confidence in her voice. For some reason,  perfume has a lot deeper impact on the psychology of a French woman..." 

(from..ik khusbu uri uri si).

Human is one

Jub Quratulain Haider apne afsane 'carman' main Guam ki lurki ko dekh ker kehti hai..."Duniya main kitni jaghaiN hain aur in main bilkul hamare jese log baste hain" - to "HUMAN IS ONE" ki kitni a'san tashreeh ho jaati hai.

Actual Poverty

Asal gurbat to gurbat ka rona hai!

Media circus!

Media transformed this world into a giant circus since they deviated from their objective of delivering news to spreading sensations.

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Addiction

In any form of addiction, first step of treatment is acceptance.

Guide

Aur use logoN ne "peer" tub kehna shuru kiya jab us ne sanglakh paharoN main 'rooh' dekhi !! 

Khali

Jub us darya kinare bethe 'baba' ne kaha ke: "Chala ja baba lokaN" to us ne ye baat bare dil se kahi kiun ke itne baras khuda ki talash main sargardaN rehne ke baad bhi baba khali tha.

RITA

Kiya isme-bamusamma RITA wahi tofan hai jo hamari zindagion main aane wala hai.

Mother Nature

We call her "Mother Nature" as sometimes she takes her brutal way to keep us on the right path 

- Oh, Mother!

Behind every failed Man

If there is a woman behind every successful man, believe me, there is also a woman behind every failed man!!!

Subject and Object

Subject does not necessarily need object!

Amal

Hamare amal hi hamari duaaiN haiN.

Forever war of good and evil

Kiya ye sach hai ke jab 'burai' apnoN ka roop dhar ke insaan ko behkaane aati hai to saath hi 'neki' bhi insaan ko khwabe khargosh se jagane koi roop dhaar ker aa jaat hai. 

Character

The real test of your character is "not to lie" in moment of crisis.

On "40th Birthday"

Age 40 is a milestone in anyone's life. Five questions are very important at that milestone:

1. Are you earning livelihood of your choice (Your career).
2. Are you married to a person you like.
3. Is your lifestyle in synchrony with your beliefs/values.
4. Are you living in a city of your choice.
5. Beside your daily job, do you have at least one hobby which makes you happy.

People who love Kids

Woh sakhs bura kese ho sakta hai jis se bachhe mohabbat kerte hon!

Curse

(After one true incident)

And he got a third-degree burn while celebrating his 4th marriage. 
Was it a curse?

Payoffs

Be nice to kids in younghood to avoid embarrassment in the old hood.

Psychology and Economics.

Aurat ko uski 'Nafsiyat' aur mard ko uski 'Muashiaat' ke saath jine do.

(Let a woman live with her 'Psychology' and a man with his 'Economics')

On "psychotic perception"

Is it true that "Pagals" (as labeled by us) - like people with schizophrenia, psychotics, epileptics, and mental people do appreciate other people's aura better and can see hidden evil better?

Age 17

We all face the dilemma of choosing our career path at age 17. 

Please teach our kids: "Money will follow the labor of love."

A Fine Balance

Philosophy's path starts from optimism and ends in despair (as happened to Voltaire) 

and 

Religion's path arises from hopelessness and leads to hopefulness 

- But

an ordinary man's life runs somewhere between these two

A Fine Balance

Mard ke dil ka Ra'sta

Aurat ye kiun bhool jaati hai ke mard ke dil ka raasta, us ki Ma' ke dil se ho ke jaata hai!!
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5 AM

Is it true that around 5 A.M - man is most near his inner self and cosmos? Answers and peaceful solutions to difficult situations in life come at this time. Didn't Grandma say:

Early to bed, early to rise

It makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise

Not wisely but too well;

(Do all lovers have the same tragedy as Othello said:)

Of one that loved not wisely but too well; 

Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought 

Perplex'd in the extreme;.......

On 'Engagement Ring'

"I lost my engagement ring. I have been looking for it for the last three days."

"It's Ok. You haven't lost your engagement."

"Oh! You don't know my fiance - if he knows I have lost that expensive engagement ring, he may leave me."

"Hmmm.. then you better not find your engagement ring!"

Stars and Travel

Kiya aik safar ker lene se SitaroN ki gardish mit jaati hai
Kiya muqa'm badalne se TaqdeeraiN badal jaati haiN

-(Jesa ke Rabindranath Tagore ke saath huwa)

Et tu, Brute!

Though Caesar was shocked when Brutus stabbed him though Antony explained his deed:

This was the noblest Roman of them all:

All the conspirators save only he

Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;

He only, in a general honest thought

And common good to all, made one of them.

His life was gentle, and the elements

So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up

And say to all the world 'This was a man!'

Debate may never end - was Brutus right or wrong? But it tells us that truth is very relative, and that's what drives and carves the babel of human history.

Getting old

Nature wants us to get old before dying, so we die with some humility in our hearts.

Split Sociality

Have you ever seen someone very nice to you at 'place A' but altogether refuse to acknowledge you at 'place B'?

Should I call it 'Calculated Sociality' or 'Split Sociality'?

Let them go

Probably the most challenging part for parents is to let their kids GO, but as Khalil Jibran said: "They are not your but children of time." Trust them and let them learn their lessons in the ocean of life. Just pray for them.

Ritualist

She said: "I am very religious."

"Is it so?"

"I perform all rituals of my faith every day."

"Oh! So you are a Ritualist. Being Religious is so personal, deep, and buried that no one should see it."

New model of a car

Never buy a new model of the car early in the season unless you have no issue with frequent recalls.

Update: The car was Lexus RX-350. It gave me a lot of headaches and frequent repair issues and cost me a lot more money than its worth. Finally, I sold it and bought two cheaper cars! - Toytota RAV-4 and Hyundai Accent. Knock on wood for seven years!

Nice?

Is he nice or weak?

River of good people

Ye Duniya acche logon se at'i pari hai. Achhe log hain to us se bhi ziyada achhe log hain aur us se bhi ziyada achhe log. Aik dariya 

(.....aur dariya kinare woh aik chota sa darakht).

Onion!

Piyaz Kachhi ho to rula deti hai magar zara pak jaaye to wahi piyaz meethas deti hai

Hamlet!

Though Hamlet tries to use the politics of "I will speak daggers but use none" when he learns that "To be, or not to be: that is the question," this world is a different place, as Horatio said at the end:

Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on the inventors' reads: all this can I
Truly deliver.

Holocaust

Would we ever be able to estimate the level of pain of the Holocaust at a personal level? How emotionally painful it is to watch the whole innocent family get gas poisoned together by state machinery - and try to hide your kid from killers!!

I can only pray to God that no other nation or religion has to go through another holocaust in the future.

Man of the house!

Pathetic is the house where the Man of the house is spineless; the woman takes over and calls the shots !!

Unmanifested events

"Na zahoor pazeer hone wale waaqiaat" ke sadme ka dukh shayed utna hi amiq hota hai - jitna un waaqiye ke ho jaane se hota ho"!

(I wish someday we could experience alternate realities) 

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Two worlds

Love is such an ideal world where man and woman stare together at the full moon and tries to find stories in it. And, there is a real (or another) world which is very different, where you have to deal with 'business people' - where any help is calculative. 

    

- in case you missed your boat.

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Another world!

The group of tiny beings of other people inside us and the astral bodies of other people around us (also often telling us when they will get more intimate with us) - have their world.

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Bell!

"Doc! Is it a "state-specific or time-specific schizophrenia? I hear a bell every time at that specific moment between the states of sleep and awakeness."

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Time zones

And when that child gets lost in the jungle, he sees the same people in different lives in different centuries. While in the pre-Jesus era, he heard a man in India talking about his father who died later in some other lifetime (during this modern time) without experiencing a few specific joys of life.

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Nijat!

Aur us burhe shaqs ki udasi,
jis ne sari zindagi
mazhab-o-rivayat ka barham rakhte guzari,
poori gali main yun noha-kanA thi
ke ajab dil soz raag alaapti thi,
us ne apni nijat ka
ye alag hi rasta paya.
Jis din woh khusroN ki
qaum main shaamil hua,
unhon ne use yun sajaya,
jese pehli raat ki dulhan!!

(And that old man!,
who spent all his life
under strict shade of religi-o-culture rules -
his sadness was crying
all over the street and
singing deep melancholic tunes.
He found a very different way
of his wayout.
The day,
he joined eunuch society,
they blossomed him
like a bride of first night).

Safar aur Dil

Jis safar ke liye dil na maane, us safar ko chor dena hi behtar hai chahe bus aur ticket dono hi kiun na tayyar hon!

Palmistry

I classify 'ilm' (knowledge) of palmistry as whispering of witch!

Behkawa

Mujhe waswase or Behkawe ki taqat ka andazza us waqt hua jub main ne shakespeare ki Macbeth parhi !!


(I understood the real power of waswasa (evil thoughts from Shaitaan) when I read Shakespeare's Macbeth).

Aik choti si kahani

Aur jub woh itne barson baad mili, aur mujh se baat tuk na ki to ooper elevator main jaate huwe main soch raha tha - na jaane ab kub tuk is dukh ki parvarish kerni pare !!

Aehsas!

Jab us ne apne haaton se meri unglion ko dabaya aur jub jharne ki tarah us ki hasi saare kamre main bikhri, tub woh mujh se kahiN hazaroN meel dur thi!!

Rudali

Woh per-nani si burhi aurat kaun thi....jo barabar ke gaun se bari haveli main noha-giri kerne aati thi aur poore gaun ko udas ker ke akeli hi laut jaati thi!!

Girl

Once a little girl was playing on a seesaw. A boy came and sat on the other side of the seesaw, and the girl's face glowed with pure joy. After a while boy left. The girl didn't find any meaning in staying there anymore. She left the seesaw swinging alone.

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On "perception of words"

It's easy if one person is listening to you. It may get a little tricky if two people are there. But it becomes chaotic when you have a whole audience!

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Smell of Sin

Sin doesn't need to be seen or demonstrated - it has its smell.

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soul ghetto

After death - like-minded souls live together as a group - soul ghetto.

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Lie

The biggest evil I see in 'Lie' is its power to hold you back from going back.

Saanjah Dukh

Once upon a time, two men were stuck on an isolated island. One was 'good,' and another was 'evil.' 

'Good' thought - it would be impossible to live with an 'evil.' But over time, they became friends - rather than partners to sustain their survival. 

And one day, 'good' realized that some of their agonies are similar.

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