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  • Tennu Brahma Vishnu Ganesh Kahoon? Mahadev kahoon Bhagwaan Kahoon?

    I feel angry, and I feel frustrated, and I feel restless and …

    then I hear something that makes me forget everything!!!!

    Irrespective of how much hatred I have about Pakistan and what it does, I cannot stop admiring some people that I know from there, and the music that originates from it! Also I just cannot stop thinking that in the past, it has been a part of India only and the two countries share so much of history. No I am not a advocate of peace, and I firmly believe that if someone slaps you in the face, you should take his hand off, and while I cannot stop myself from getting frustrated about everything, there is little I can do to change the situation.

    At times like this, I usually find something that balances my anger with admiration and respect. Arieb Azhar is a Pakistani Artist, who has rendered this Kafi written by Khwaja Ghulam Farid in a way that it can reach your heart if you open up to it. A Kafi is a form of Sufi classical poetry, and needless to say, has the amazing element of romance which I do not find anywhere else!!! Sufi poets have always treated God as someone they are in love with, and have wondered about the beauty of God through the soul touching words they left behind!

    Enough of text now! enjoy Husn e Haqiqi !!!

    If you’d like the mp3 of this video, write to me with your email address and I shall send it to you. I am reachable @ prashanbhardwaj [at] gmail

    Husn e Haqiqi :

    Aye husn haqiqi noor-e-azal
    tanuu wajib tay imkan kahoon

    tanuu khaliq zaat qadeem kahoon
    tanuu hadis khalq jahan kahoon
    tanu mutlaq mahaz wajood kahoon
    tanuu almiaa ayaan kahoon

    tanuu aien haqeeqat maheeat
    tanuu arrz sifat tay shaan kahoon
    anwa kahoon ozhaf kahoon
    atwar kahoon, ozaan kahoon

    tanuu arsh kahoon, ablag kahoon
    tanuu naaz naeem janaan kahoon
    tanuu takhat jamat na baad kahon
    haywaan kahoon, insan kahoon

    tanuu masjid mandar dayer kahoon
    tanuu kothi tay koran kahoon
    tanuu masjid mandar dayer kahoon
    tanuu kothi tay koran kahoon
    tasbeeh kahoon, zunda kahoon
    Tanuu kufar kahoon emaan khaoo

    tanuu badal barkha dajj kahoon
    tanuu bijli ta baran kahoon
    tanuu aab kahoon
    tanuu khak kahoon
    tanuu baad kahoon weeran kahoon

    tanuu dsurat lejman ram kahoon
    tanuu seeta ji janan kahoon
    baldev ja souta nand kahoon
    tanuu kishn kahenaya kan kahoon

    tanuu bhrama vishn ghanish kahoon
    mahadev kahoon, bahgwan kahoon
    tanuu geet granth te ved kahoon
    tanuu gyann kahoon agyan kahoon

    tanuu ibrahim hawahishees kahoon
    tanuu nooh kahoon toofan kahoon
    tanuu ibrahim khalil kahoon
    tanuu moosa bin imran kahoon
    tanuu har dil da dildar kahoon
    tanuu ahmad aali shaan kahoon

    tanuu shahid malk hijaz kahoon
    tanuu baies kaun makaan kahoon
    tanuu nazz kahoon andaaz kahoon
    tanuu hoor pari walmaan kahoon

    tanuu nauog kahoon
    tanuu toug kahoon
    tanuu surkhee bedaaa paan kahoon
    tanuu tabla tay tamboor kahoon
    tanuu dholak sur tay tan kahoon

    tanuu husn-te har singhar kahoon
    tanuu ashawa ghamza aan kahoon
    tanuu ishq kahoon
    tanuu illam kahoon
    tanuu waham yakin gumaan kahoon

    tanuu husane da ve idrrak kahoon
    tanuu zouk kahoon wajhdan kahoon
    tanuu sadar kahoon, sadraan kahoon
    tanuu hairat tay hairaan kahoon

    tasleem kahoon, talveen kahoon
    tmkeen kahoon, irfan kahoon
    tanuu sumbal soo sand sard kahoon
    tanuu nargis nafarman kahoon

    tanuu lale adaagh ta bagh kahoon
    gulzar kahoon, bustaan kahoon
    tanuu lale adaagh ta bagh kahoon
    gulzar kahoon, ustaan kahoon
    tanuu khanjar teer toofang kahoon
    tanuu barcha baang sanaan kahoon
    tanuu teer fairang kaamaan kahoon
    soofar kahoon, beekan kahoon

    berang kahoon, bemisal kahoon
    besurroot har har aan kahoon
    sukdoor kahoon, qudooos kahoon
    rehman kahoon, subhan kahoon

    Aray tobaa dard Farid sadaaa…
    Har shea nu par Nuksaan kahoon

    tanuu bohut alag be aib kahoon
    tanuu haq be naam nishaan kahoon
    tanuu bohut alag be aib kahoon
    tanuu haq be naam nishaan kahoon …

  • Waiting for God to do something!

    My heart was bleeding while I was watching this!!! and at the same time, I am feeling like an idiot being from a country where leaders are completely incapable of anything!!!! I am feel so disturbed, that I do not know what to write!!!

    Can’t even thank Geet for sending this link to me!!!

    Does it fkking matter if the attack was on Mumbai or Bombay? on a Maharashtrian or a Bengali or a Bihari? It does not, but no… our politicians have much better things to do than putting their foot down against terrorism!!!

    Make their sculptures
    Win elections with the tax payers money
    Throw anyone who is not a Marathi Manus out of the state
    Burn trains and buses
    Point fingers at fellow politicians
    Object to twitter and business class travel
    and what not!!!!

    Is keeping the country and people, who vote for such bastards, safe a part of anyone’s agenda? I guess not!

    And why just Indian Leadership, even the US continues to pump billions of dollars in the name of development, into countries where the only development is probably developing terror!!!

    Damn it!!!!

  • The Rule of Thirds

    There are three kinds of conversations that a man can live with all his life

    1. A completely non-sensical braindump of bullcrap with no boundries on groseness or irrelevance of two consecutive words or sentences

    2. A intellectually stimulating discussion which focuses on problem solving, development and/or sustainability, short or long term

    3. A light hearted conversation and argument to know and tell about how much he is loved, wanted and cared for

    Continuing with my mathematics (which ended up in my leg being pulled all the way from Dhaka, which I loved by the way!), let’s do some additions… tell me

    1+2+3 = ?
    1+2 = ?
    1+3 = ?
    2+3 = ?
    1 = ?
    2 =?
    3= ?

    Essentially I am asking; what if a man is getting one or two or all three of these, what does it make him?

  • Mathematics for Dummies!

    We did some multiplication in the last post, and it got me thinking about how I used to do my Maths orally when I was a kid… they say all Maths is based on one simple principle! The principle of “Addition”… all other calculations, BODMAS (Bracket, Of, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction), and so on and so forth is a function of how you apply addition to it… So much so, that if you want to subtract something, you apply addition of negatives to the original and VOILA you have a smaller value!!! To demonstrate my point for the uninitiated, here is how it works

    What is 2X2? 4! Right? How do you reach that number, by adding 2 twice! So 2+2 = 4 and 2X2 = 4. Let’s talk more what is 13X4? (no calculators please)! It is 13 added 4 times, or to make it simpler its (10+3)X4 = 10X4 +3X4 = 40+12 = 52! Easy peezie Jappaneezee!

    I remember doing all my mathematics this way!!! And that is why I could never remember the tables after 12… for some reason, I took a while adding 13 more than 5 times! Damn it!

    The mantra is : Break it down into smaller blocks, and simplify to an extent that it seems to be the easiest problem ever!

    This makes so much sense in the real world too… outside mathematics I meant!

    Professionally, we apply the same fundamentals to do project planning, resourcing, effort management, strategy alignment and so on and so forth!

    Personally!

    We add (how much good we felt in the first meeting) to (how much we feel like meeting again) and reach (finding a way to meet the person again)

    We multiply our (pleasure in meeting someone) to (number of times we met) and reach (liking)

    We multiple our (liking) to (number of Goosebumps) and (percentage of increase in heart rate) to reach (excitement)

    We know our parents love us because we add (ability to accept us like we grow up) to (selflessness of being a parent)

    We add (how much we loved the person) to (how much negative love we got or how much attention/reciprocation we get) to reach (how much does it matter now) {{Of course you can be weak at mathematics and continue loving the person irrespective of the negatives that you get, screw your equations and get into a negative state of mind, where you cannot feel positive! Not even about being yourself and blame yourself for everything}}

    And so on and so forth!!!

    So like I said! It’s all mathematics! If you did you sums right when you were in kindergarten and ate your green leafy veggies, you might be able to handle life better! If not, too bad! Go teach a kid how to do his sums and learn something about Maths!

    Life is better that way!

  • Do ke Pahaade

    2 ones are 2
    2 twos are 4
    naah…



    2 oneza too
    2 toozaa foor
    2 threezaa siiix
    2 forza eeeeight
    2 fiveza teeen
    2 sixza twwwwelve
    2 sevenza foorteeen
    2 ate-za sixteeeen
    2 nine-za eighteeeen
    2 tenza twenty

    ikk duni do
    do duni chaar
    tinn duni che
    chaar duni aath
    punj duni dus
    che duni baraanh
    sat duni chaudanh
    aath duni solanh
    nau duni athaaranh
    dus duni veeh!

    2 ekum do
    2 dooni chaar
    2 tiya che
    2 chawke aath
    2 panje dus
    2 chikke baraa
    2 satte chaudhah
    2 atthe solah
    2 nimme at-tharah
    2 dhain bees

    and while we are at it… why don’t we sing along with my favorite Shammi Kapoor!!!

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJQee7eub6M&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1]

  • Visit to the Memory Stick Town!

    Kingston is a name that I have heard only in reference to memory sticks or thumb drives, or USB drives or Pen drives as the janta calls them… an opportunity to visit the place with that name had a different sort of excitement for me… I was feeling very similar when I went to Cherokee too!!!

    An evening flight to Detroit and a connection to Syracuse and a 2.5 hours drive to Kingston later I was in the city last saturday! Thankfully the weather was bright and sunny throughout and was warm enough to roam around in a sweatshirt!!!

    Kingston has nothing to do with the brand, I guess, and there is not much you can do in the town… You can be in Jail, it has a biiiig correction centre, or you could be in the Queens University, or you could be working in one of the local market places in the city! Pretty laid back, and a relaxed place to be in, with its own set of excitements too I am sure!

    The rest below, along with the pictures…

    The change of driver pit-stop some 20 miles before the US-Canadian Border. I was driving Jas’s Shwanda so far!!! I love that white car… it is so similar to my palio!

    We reached Jas’s new apartment late afternoon, and after some amazing Chai, with chips and Bananabread Cake, went to the downtown to walk around the place…

    There is something very very attractive about old stone buildings with veins all over them. In summers the entire walls can be hidden behind the leaves, but because of this being fall time, there were only veins and some last few leaves… and the red of the leaves against the grey of the walls made a very beautiful sight!


    And then we walked towards the downtown…

    Being a Saturday here was a farmer’s market. Most farmer’s markets in the US and Canada sell fresh produce from the farms, Jewelery, Handmade Soaps and other handmade stuff… We bought some dry flowers from Diane (the picture below). Mostly I was attracted to the Dodge Van she had and then noticed the flowers too! It was a 1978 Dodge rescue van, and Diane did mention her fondness for the vehicle in the few minutes of conversation we had with her.

    While walking past the city hall, we heard some nice music and thought was it was coming from some speakers in a restaurant, but later realised that it was band of 3 young boys who were playing their songs in a small arrangement. We also picked up a few maple leaves of different colors to make some artwork at Jas’s apartment with the leaves!

    While walking back, I noticed this shop selling interesting stuff and had a very interesting board outside… They had a shower gel dispenser in the shape of a nose :P, and fart candies, and masks, and puzzles, and riddles and what not… I also bought a small puzzle myself and have been trying to figure out what to do with it for a while now :/

    Leaves in Kingston had these strange black dots on them… and only those leaves which had the fall colors. Not sure why, but it was both spooky and interesting to notice! Like the mark of death, as Jas’s colleague Al says!

    I also saw one of the best beautiful sunsets in a very long time at the Lake Ontario that evening!!!

    We finally called it a day as it was dark and getting real cold! Came back home, had some mind blowing dinner (Thanks Jas!!!!), saw Step Brothers and crashed! It was a nice day!

    The next day we had to leave Kingston by 1 to catch my flight back… and because I woke up pretty late, there was not much we could do… So we hung around the apartment, while I took a few photographs…

    The drive between Kingston and Syracuse has two interesting things, the border, and two very beautiful bridges over Lake Ontario through a place called 1000 Islands! yes… I was excited to be passing through this place, after knowing the 1000 Islands dressing for a long time! Its like I am seeing things which I have known only as objects so far! Its a feeling that I cannot express…

    My flight from Syracuse was delayed by an hour, and that made me miss my connection to Milwaukee. I enjoyed my complimentary stay in Holiday Inn, Newark that night, and took the first flight out on Monday. Though I had to wake up at 4:30 in the morning, I was still ok.

    In short, this weekend turned out to be very relaxed, de-stressing and refreshing.

    One more to the list of memorable trips I have made! Thank you Jas! thank you Uncle!

    And I almost forgot… last weekend was the first time, I signed some of my work! A huge moment of satisfaction for me as a photographer!!!!

    and today, Jas gave Diane two prints as well!!! 🙂 I am glad!


    Life is Good!!!!

  • चाय की दुकान की रसोई

    मस्तम मूंग की दाल बनाने की विधि –

    एक कटोरी दाल लीजिये! उसको ठीक से धोकर, प्रेशर कुकर में डाल दीजिये!
    दो कटोरी पानी, थोडा सा नमक और हल्दी दाल कर, एक सीटी आने तक माध्यम आंच पर रखिये!

    एक सीटी के बाद गैस पर से हटा दीजिये…और भाप निकलने तक इंतज़ार कीजिये! फिर प्रेशर कुकर का ढक्कन हटा कर, धीमी आंच पर दल को पकने दीजिये!

    एक बड़ा प्याज लीजिये और उसके छोटे छोटे छोटे छोटे टुकड़े कर लीजिये! थोडी सी ताज़ी अदरक और लहसुन लेकर उसके भी छोटे छोटे छोटे छोटे टुकड़े कर लीजिये! एक बर्नर पर भारी तले का कोई बर्तन लेकर थोडा सा तेल या घी गरम कर लीजिये…तेल गरम होने पर थोडा सा जीरा दाल कर भूनिए! कुछ ५ सेकंड बाद प्याज दाल दीजिये! और फिर कुछ देर में अदरक और लहसुन भी डालिए! थोडा भून-ने के बाद हरी मिर्च के कुछ टुकड़े भी डालिए!

    थोडा सा गरम मसाला डालिए और कुछ देर भूनिए! प्याज भूरी हो जाने पर, उबलती हुई दाल में डालिए… स्वादानुसार नमक डालिए| १० मिनट तक पकाइए! १५ या २० मिनट भी पका सकते हैं…

    दाल को सूंघ कर देखिये… अच्छी खुशबू आ रही हो तो ज़रा सी चख कर देखिये! नहीं आ रही हो तो भी चख कर देखिये! और मसाला या नमक ठीक करिए!!!

    २०-३० मिनट में मस्त दाल तैयार!!!!

    ताज़ी रोटी या परांठे के साथ परोसिये!!! और ऐश कीजिये| मज़ा आए तो ठीक, ना आए तो दो दिन बाद फिर से कोशिश कीजिये!

  • At the elevator doors!

    It was 6 in the evening…

    He pressed the button for the lobby….

    She pressed the button for the 12th floor….

    Her elevator door opened first… She spoke with a sparkle in her voice,”I Win, but you are going the right way“

    Li’il did she know, it was his last day at work… he was asked to leave!

  • so what is it?

    Confidence is not about speaking of things that you know a lot about, confidence is being able to speak about things you don’t have a clue of!

  • मोजा-दस्तूर

    नौकरी धंदे पर तरक्की की कार्यनीति बनाने के लिए कुछ विचार :

    अपने से वरिष्ठ पदाधिकारी की मेज़ में अपने पुराने मोज़े रख दें. रोज़ सुबह दफ्तर जाकर वही मोज़े पहने औरध्यान रखें के उनको धोएं नहीं! यदि आप दफ्तर में बहुत ज्यादा समय व्यतीत कर रहे हैं और आपके मोज़े में सेबदबू आने लगी है, तो आपने उच्चतर पदाधिकारी को इसकी सूचना आपके बदबूदार मोज़े से मिल जायेगी

    इस परिस्थिति में दो बातें हो सकती हैं

    १. या तो आपको तरक्की मिलेगी

    २. या फिर आपका बॉस आपको साबुन खरीदने के लिए कहेगा!

    तरक्की मिली तो ठीक, यहीं साबुन खरीदने की बात आये तो अपनी आर्थिक स्थिति का वास्ता देकर अपने घर कीखस्ता हालत का बखान करके तरक्की पाने की कोशिश करें

    इस परिस्थिति में दो बातें हो सकती हैं

    १. या तो आपको तरक्की मिलेगी

    २. या फिर आपका बॉस आपको दफ्तर से बहार जाने के लिए बोलेगा

    तरक्की मिली तो ठीक, यदि बहार जाने की बात आये तो चुपचाप चले जायें! और अपने मोजा–दस्तूर चालू रखें. कुछ दिनों में परेशान होकर आपका बॉस इस समस्या को हल करने का प्रयत्न करेगा!

    इस परिस्थिति में दो बातें हो सकती हैं

    १. या तो आपको तरक्की मिलेगी

    २. या आपका बॉस ही नौकरी छोड़ कर चला जायेगा!

    तरक्की मिली तो ठीक, बॉस ने नौकरी छोड़ी, तो कम से कम बॉस तो नया मिलेगा! कहते हैं न भागते भूत की तोलंगोटी बहुत!

    बोलो राधे श्याम राधे श्याम!