Couplets

Nishaan-e-mard-e Momin ba too goyam?
choon marg aayad, tobassum bar lab-e-ost
(You ask me for the signs of a man of faith?
When death comes to him
He has a smile on his lips.)


Row mein hai raks oer umar
Kahaam deykheeye thamen,
Na haath baagh par hai
Na pa nakaali mein
(My life runs at a galloping pace
who knows where it will come to a stop
The reins are not in my hands
my feet are not in the stirrups)


Khuda tujhe kisee toofan se aashna kar day
Keh terey beher kee maujon mein iztirab naheen
(May God bring a storm in your life
There is no agitation on the waves of your life's ocean)


Jhoot vee aseen bolney aan
Ghutt vee aseen tolney aan
Par sachey Padshaah
Teyra naa vee aseen Lainey aan
(We admit we tell lies,
We also give short measures
But O True King of Kings
We also take your name.)


Too dil mein to aataa hai
Samajh mein nahin aataa
Bas jaan gayaa teyree pahchaan yahee hai
(You come into my heart,
But my mind cannot comprehend you
I understand this is the only way to know you.)


Sunee hikayat-i-haste to darmiyaan say sunee
Na ibtida kee khabar hai, na intiha maaloom
(All we have heard of the story of life is its middle
We know not its beginning, we know not its end)


Dhoondta phirta hoon main, ai Iqbal apney aap ko
aap hee Goya musaafir, aap hi manzil hoon main
(O Iqbal, I go about everywhere looking for myself
As if I was the wayfarer as well as the destination)


Akhiyan dee laalee pay dasdee
Tusee vee roey ho, roey asee vee haan
(The redness in our eyes has no secret
If you have cried, we too have wept)


Sarsaree nazar maaree jahaan andar
Zindgi varg utthalya main
Daaman koee na milya rafeeq mainoo
Maar kafan dee bukkal tay challiya main
(I gave a cursory glance at the world,
I turned a few pages of the book of my life,
I Daaman could find no companion - so
I fling my shroud over my shoulder. And I go)


Mullah, gar asar ha dua mein
To Masjid hila kay dikha
Gar nahin, to do ghoont pee
Aur Masjid ko hilta deykh
(Mullah, if there is power in your prayer
Let me see you shake the ground
If not, take a couple of swigs of liquor
And see the mosque shake on its own)


Voh waqt bhee deykha taareekh ki ghariyon ney
Lamhon ne khataa ki thee
Sadiyon nay sazaa payee
(The ages of history have recorded times
when for an error made in few seconds
centuries had to pay the price)
(On operation Blue Star 1984)


Sana-e-khud bakhud guftan
Na Zebad Mard-e-daana ra
Choon Zan pistan-e-khud maalad
Kuja lazzat shaved Baakee?
(It does not behove a man of wisdom
to use his tongue in praise of himself
What pleasure does a woman beget
If with her own hands she rubs her breasts?)


Jahaan mein ahle-eemaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetey hain
Idhar doobey udhar nikley;udhar doobey, idhar nikley
(In this world men of faith and self confidence are like the Sun
They go down on one side to come up on the other)


Shauq-e-tool-o-peych is zulmat qade mein hai agar
Bengalee ke baat sun aur Bengalan kay baal deykh
(If you like to add length to a story, put a twist in its tail
Hear a Bengali talk(endlessly) and gaze upon his woman's long hair)


If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten
Either write things worth reading
Or do things worth writing

And so many years have passed

Wow!! Finally I opened my blog to write something again. All these years, there have been numerous times when I have thought about writing something... anything...but never actually did it. So feeling good to be back. I just hope that I maintain it as a routine and improve my writing skills..huhu..

So much time has passed and I am grown up now. Not that I was a kid earlier, but yeah, with age I feel matured. Most importantly, I am a mom now, to a beautiful 8 months old girl. She is the centre of my world. In fact, she is my whole world. The feeling of being a mother is something that cannot be described in words. It has to be experienced to be able to understand it.
I pray and wish that my baby gets all the happiness in the world.

Life has been a roller coaster ride in the past few years. Still trying to calm the rough seas and looking for a shore.

Hope to come back here soon.

Same caste marriage

My cousin recently got engaged to an Asamese girl. He works in Canada and comes to India every year in December. This year when we met him, which was shortly after his roka with his Asamese girlfriend, the hot topic of discussion,of course, was his upcoming wedding. During the chit chat, I said something about this being an inter caste marriage and all. He said in a confused tone "no no, this is not an inter caste marriage. Both of us are Hindus only" I said You are a Punjabi while the girl is Asamese. On this, he said ..so that makes it an inter state marriage but not inter caste. I was short of words on hearing this.
At that moment, I felt respect for him and felt proud at the same time.

On giving a deeper thought to this, if all the people in India start thinking this way, half of India's problems will be solved. There will be no agitations for reservations. The face of India's politics will change as it is majorly caste based politics. Most importantly, the number of love marriages will increase and I think this can improve people's personal lives to a great extent.