Monday, October 31, 2011

Kiya tamasha hai! Kabse jaari hai?

At times, life can be a real bitch.... but still its so lovely!
What a beautiful gem in Sajjad Ali's 'pakka' voice.

Saath kaati hai? ya guzari hai?


Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Sunday, October 23, 2011

"Way, The"

Martin Sheen's new but not very advertised movie, "The Way," is more of an independent film. It revolves around four characters who join the pilgrimage to the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela for their own various reasons under the folklore that said pilgrimage helps spiritual salvation.

 Martin Sheen is carrying the burden and ashes of his dead son. He is first joined by a Dutch man who loves food but fights his weight as his wife stops sleeping with him. Later, they found an angry Canadian woman who is a victim of domestic violence and is trying to give up her addiction to smoking. Actually, she is inside carrying the guilt of an abortion. Lastly, they found an Irish writer suffering from writer's block, but he hates his commercial job of writing for a travelers' magazine.

 As the movie evolves, the pilgrimage progresses, and their interaction intensifies. As they fight their psychological issues and try to find meaning in their journey and life, they realize that it is not important to fight a particular thing in life. What makes it worthwhile is sharing each other's burdens and joys in life.


See trailer here

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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Windows (Aik Hikayat)

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, The young woman sees her neighbor hanging the Wash outside. "That laundry is not very clean", she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."

 Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, The young woman would make the same comments.

 About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a Nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this."

 The husband said, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows".

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Poverty and Human Bonding!

One Awesome Art! (Beggar-Brothers) depicting human bonding in poverty. 
I googled but could not find the original artist!


Monday, October 17, 2011

Mere Baba ke das (10) Baras!

Main mere Baba ki jaan thi - jise log "Daddy's Girl" kehte hain. Meri umar 6 baras thi. Mera School ke "Class 1" ka pehla din tha - jub mere Baba ko heart attack huwa. Baba Bombay ki lilawati hospital ke ICU main the. Heart attack itna shadeed tha ke doctors ne saaf keh diya mere Baba nahi bacheN ge. Mere Chacha, hum dono bhai bahen ko jaldi jaldi tayyar ker ke hospital le gaye. Yun to bachhoN ko ICU main jaane ki ijazat nahi thi magar doctors kehte the Baba ki aaj aakhri raat hai. Hum dono ko Baba ke bistar ke paas jaane ki ijazat mil gai...

Main choti si bachhi thi. Pata nahi chal raha tha kiya ho raha hai. Bus itna maalum tha Baba marne wale hain. Mama kehti thi log marte nahi hain bus ooper chale jaate hain! main ne apni choti choti unglion se Baba ka haat thama to mujhe aesa laga mere Baba ne aankhain kholi ho aur mujhe mehsoos kiya ho - aur phir hum ko ICU se bahir le gaye.

Magar woh raat Baba ki aakhri raat nahi thi. Baba theek hone lage aur sahetyaab hoke ghar aa gaye. Aik din unhon ne meri Mama ko bataya: "Jub meri beti ki unglian mujeh mere haaton pe mehsoos hui to main ne apne Khuda se sirf ye dua maangi - ke aye Khuda - ye bacchi mere bagair nahi ji paaye gi. Mujeh sirf das baras aur de de ke ye zara samjhdar ho jaaye..Lagta hai Khuda ne meri sun li"

Tum jaante ho theek 10 baras baad jub meri college ke first year ka pehla din tha - mere Baba neend se baidar nahi huwe. Woh intiqal ker gaye.



Saturday, October 15, 2011

Age 40

About 6 years ago I wrote a one line post titled: 40 years. "Ye koi ittifaq to nahi ke Islam ke Muhammad ko nabuwwat 40 baras ki umer main mili". I did pick this post after conventional wisdom absorbed from world literature that a human attain intellectual maturity at age 40.

Beauty of Internet is that you meet smarter people than yourself! On my last post (On Belief) 2 such people commented. One was Adnan, an extremely talented kid from Toronto. Other was Aasem Bakhshi. Aasem mentioned on his blog the reference of Qurani ayat for the significance of age 40. Let me put his words here;

"According to Al-Quran 46:15, man attains strength at the age of 40. A few might take it literally but it is an age when the perceptual experience of reality has to be expressed by humans".

Friday, October 14, 2011

On Belief

Interesting quote found on internet (Author ?)

 "It takes more faith to believe there is no God than the believe there is a God".

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

On Human side of people!

Steve Jobs died. Most of the people were sad, including me. But this is a free country. It was shocking to see a lot of negative comments about his life and personality on the internet. I think it was very mean! But beyond that, one thing should be understood: After all, we are humans, and we all carry chips on our shoulders.

History is full of it. Gandhi slept naked with naked young girls under his psychological pursuit to attain purity. Saadat Hasan Minto was an an alcoholic. Allama Iqbal was said to kill a prostitute and was able to get away with it! Einstein fathered an illegitimate child and is also rumored to be a womanizer. One of the most intelligent American presidents, Bill Clinton, had sexual relationships with other women while married. Same with Abraham Lincoln....and the list goes on! 

This is just to read as it's essential to understand great personalities as humans. It does not decrease the stature of their work!

Saturday, October 08, 2011

On Disease and Spirituality!

Mind blowing Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was an epileptic. Its interesting how sometime minds are blessed:

"For several instants I experience a happiness that is impossible in an ordinary state, and of which other people have no conception. I feel full harmony in myself and in the whole world, and the feeling is so strong and sweet that for a few seconds of such bliss one could give up ten years of life, perhaps all of life. I felt that heaven descended to earth and swallowed me. I really attained god and was imbued with him. All of you healthy people don't even suspect what happiness is , that happiness that we epileptics experience for a second before an attack."

I am not going into any religious arguments here but it is said that Prophet Mohammad used to have similar attack before or at time of revelation from Allah!

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Love and Women

Aurat ke liye kubhi kubhi...... sirf saath rehna, uski baatain sunna aur chup rehna 'love making' se barh ker hota hai....zaroori to nahi har shaam bistar pe aakhir ho".

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Sab se Bara Dukh? - 2

Last year, I wrote a little post Sab se bara Dukh? Someone left an interesting comment:

"...mujhe aik bar mere susar (father i law) ne aik bat kahi jo main apse b share krna chahta hon... he said.. "beta, ap jantay hain k hum ko olad ka dukh maa baap k dukh se b barh k q mehsus hota ha?"..main khamosh rha to woh bolay.."Q k yeh hmara khameer ha, hmaray grand father (hazrat adam) k maa baap nahi thay, unko sirf oladd mili so unki fitrat mein sirf olaad k liye feelings bn gayen aur jo genetically aj tk hm sb insano mein forward ho rahi hain"... hence proved k "olad ka dukh wakeiye boht zalim hota ha" !!!

(Thanks Tahir)

Sunday, October 02, 2011

Maan!

"Tumhe pata hai 'Maan' kise kehte hain?"


"Trust ko?"


"Nahi! Trust to bohat chota lafz hai. Shayed angrezi main is lafz ke hum-palla koi lafz hai hi nahi! Jub kisi ke liye koi aehsas - aap ke andar, bahir, shaoor, la-shaoor bulke tahtash-shaoor - main yaqeen bulke iman ki had tuk chaya ho - magar khud aap ko us ki khabar na ho - aur tub khabar ho jub woh aehsaas aik dum se tute aur khud poora aap ko jhanjor jaaye, bulke tor jaaye. Us aehsaas ke liye shayed abhi koi lafz ijad hi nahi hua!"

Saturday, October 01, 2011

"The Help", 9/11 and Hope

You guys may be tired of my obsession with off-beat movies, but I see them as critical intellectual endeavors. I went to see the film - "The Help"! Though it was a story of 'blacks' and 'whites' from the civil rights time, it reminded me of today's post 9/11 America and 'Muslims in it.

It is an incredible story of human bonding beyond color and status. It shows a reaction to an unfair society. This is a story of hope. Change is inevitable. It reminds us again that - discrimination based on color, gender, religion, and others is nothing - but an eternal tussle of good and evil! 

Life goes on. The only thing matters - on which side of the fence you lived your life!

 Trailer here

 Note: Emma stone proved herself in this movie as an actress