Sunday 29 March 2015

Kitani Girahein Kholi Hain Maine - Gulzar

Kitni girhein kholi hain maine, kitni girhein ab baaki hai

paanv mein payal, baahon mein kangan, gale mein hansli, kamar band, challe aur bichue

naak kaan chidwaayein gaye hain, aur zevar zevar kehte kehte

reet rivaaj ke rassiyon se main jakdi gayi ,uff kitni tarah main pakdi gayi

ab chilne lage hain haath paanv, aur kitni kharaashein ubhri hain,

kitni girhein kholi hain maine, kitni rassiyaan utari hain

Ang ang mera roop rang, mere naksh nain, mere bol bain

meri aawaaz mein koyal ki tareef hui, mere zulf saanp, meri zulf raat,

zulfon mein ghata mere lab gulaab, meri aankhein sharaab

ghazal aur nazmein kehte kehte husn aur ishq ke afasano mein main jakdi gayi

uff kitni tarah main pakdi gayi

main poochun zara, aankhon mein sharaab dikhe sabko, akaash nahi dekha koi

saawan bhado to dikhe magar, kya dard nahi dekha koi

phan ki jheeni si chaadar mein, buth cheele gaye uriyaani ke

taaga taaga karke poshaaq utaari gayi

mere jism pe phan ki mashq hui, aur art kala kehte kehte sange marmar mein jakdi gayi

batlaaye koi batlaaye koi, kitni girhein kholi hain maine, kitni girhein ab baaki hain

 - Gulzar

Peethal aur Paathal - Kanhaiyalal Sethiya


अरै घास री रोटी ही,
जद बन बिलावड़ो ले भाग्यो।
नान्हो सो अमर्यो चीख पड्यो,
राणा रो सोयो दुख जाग्यो।

हूं लड्यो घणो हूं सह्यो घणो,
मेवाड़ी मान बचावण नै,
हूं पाछ नहीं राखी रण में,
बैर्यां री खात खिडावण में,

जद याद करूँ हळदी घाटी
नैणां में रगत उतर आवै,
सुख दुख रो साथी चेतकड़ो
सूती सी हूक जगा ज्यावै,

पण आज बिलखतो देखूं हूँ,
जद राज कंवर नै रोटी नै,
तो क्षात्र-धरम नै भूलूं हूँ,
भूलूं हिंदवाणी चोटी नै

मैं’लां में छप्पन भोग जका
मनवार बिनां करता कोनी,
सोनै री थाल्यां नीलम रै
बाजोट बिनां धरता कोनी,

ऐ हाय जका करता पगल्या,
फूलां री कंवळी सेजां पर,
बै आज रुळै भूखा तिसिया,
हिंदवाणै सूरज रा टाबर,

आ सोच हुई दो टूक तड़क
राणा री भीम बजर छाती,
आंख्यां में आंसू भर बोल्या
मैं लिख स्यूं अकबर नै पाती,

पण लिखूं कियां जद देखै है
आडावळ ऊंचो हियो लियां,
चितौड़ खड्यो है मगरां में
विकराळ भूत सी लियां छियां,

मैं झुकूं कियां ? है आण मनैं
कुळ रा केसरिया बानां री,
मैं बुझूं कियां ? हूं सेस लपट
आजादी रै परवानां री,

पण फेर अमर री सुण बुसक्यां
राणा रो हिवड़ो भर आयो,
मैं मानूं हूँ दिल्लीस तनैं
समराट् सनेषो कैवायो।

राणा रो कागद बांच हुयो
अकबर रो’ सपनूं सो सांचो,\
पण नैण कर्यो बिसवास नहीं
जद बांच - २  नै फिर बांच्यो,

कै आज हिंमाळो पिघळ बह्यो,
कै आज हुयो सूरज सीतळ,
कै आज सेस रो सिर डोल्यो,
आ सोच हुयो समराट् विकळ,

बस दूत इसारो पा भाज्यो
पीथळ नै तुरत बुलावण नै,
किरणां रो पीथळ आ पूग्यो
ओ सांचो भरम मिटावण नै,

बीं वीर बांकुड़ै पीथळ नै,
रजपूती गौरव भारी हो,
बो क्षात्र धरम रो नेमी हो,
राणा रो प्रेम पुजारी हो,

बैर्यां रै मन रो कांटो हो
बीकाणूँ पूत खरारो हो,
राठौड़ रणां में रातो हो
बस सागी तेज दुधारो हो,

आ बात पातस्या जाणै हो,
धावां पर लूण लगावण नै,
पीथळ नै तुरत बुलायो हो,
राणा री हार बंचावण नै,

म्है बाँध लियो है पीथळ सुण
 पिंजरै में जंगळी शेर पकड़,
ओ देख हाथ रो कागद है
तूं देखां फिरसी कियां अकड़ ?

मर डूब चळू भर पाणी में,
बस झूठा गाल बजावै हो,
पण टूट गयो बीं राणा रो,
तूं भाट बण्यो बिड़दावै हो,

मैं आज पातस्या धरती रो
मेवाड़ी पाग पगां में है,
अब बता मनै किण रजवट रै
रजपती खून रगां में है ?

जंद पीथळ कागद ले देखी,
राणा री सागी सैनाणी,
नीचै स्यूं धरती खसक गई,
आंख्यां में आयो भर पाणी,

पण फेर कही ततकाळ संभळ
आ बात सफा ही झूठी है,
राणा री पाघ सदा ऊँची
राणा री आण अटूटी है।

ल्यो हुकम हुवै तो लिख पूछूं,
राणा नै कागद रै खातर,
लै पूछ भलांई पीथळ तूं, \
आ बात सही बोल्यो अकबर,

म्हे आज सुणी है नाहरियो,
स्याळां रै सागै सोवैलो,
म्हे आज सुणी है सूरजड़ो,
बादळ री ओटां खोवैलो;

म्हे आज सुणी है चातगड़ो,
धरती रो पाणी पीवैलो,
म्हे आज सुणी है हाथीड़ो,
कूकर री जूणां जीवैलो

म्हे आज सुणी है थकां खसम,
अब रांड हुवैली रजपूती,
म्हे आज सुणी है म्यानां में,
तरवार रवैली अब सूती,

तो म्हांरो हिवड़ो कांपै है
मूंछ्यां री मोड़ मरोड़ गई,
पीथळ नै राणा लिख भेज्यो
आ बात कठै तक गिणां सही ?

पीथळ रा आखर पढ़तां ही,
राणा री आँख्यां लाल हुई,
धिक्कार मनै हूँ कायर हूँ,
 नाहर री एक दकाल हुई,

हूँ भूख मरूं हूँ प्यास मरूं,
मेवाड़ धरा आजाद रवै
हूँ घोर उजाड़ां में भटकूं,
पण मन में मां री याद रवै,

हूँ रजपूतण रो जायो हूं
रजपूती करज चुकाऊंला,
ओ सीस पड़ै पण पाघ नही
दिल्ली रो मान झुकाऊंला,

पीथळ के खिमता बादल री,
जो रोकै सूर उगाळी नै,
सिंघां री हाथळ सह लेवै,
बा कूख मिली कद स्याळी नै?

धरती रो पाणी पिवै इसी,
चातग री चूंच बणी कोनी,
कूकर री जूणां जिवै इसी,
हाथी री बात सुणी कोनी,

आं हाथां में तलवार थकां,
कुण रांड़ कवै है रजपूती ?
म्यानां रै बदळै बैर्यां री,
छात्याँ में रैवैली सूती,

मेवाड़ धधकतो अंगारो
आंध्यां में चमचम चमकैलो,
कड़खै री उठती तानां पर
पग पग पर खांडो खड़कैलो,

राखो थे मूंछ्याँ ऐंठ्योड़ी,
लोही री नदी बहा द्यूंला,
हूँ अथक लडूंला अकबर स्यूँ,
उजड्यो मेवाड़ बसा द्यूंला,

जद राणा रो संदेष गयो
पीथळ री छाती दूणी ही,
हिंदवाणों सूरज चमकै हो
अकबर री दुनियां सूनी ही।



 - कन्हैया लाल सेठिया

Hum Ladenge Saathi - Avtar Singh Sandhu Paash

हम लड़ेंगे साथी, उदास मौसम के ख़िलाफ़
हम लड़ेंगे साथी, गुलाम इच्छाओं के लिये…….
हम चुनेंगे साथी, जिंदगी के टुकड़े
हथौड़ा अब भी चलता है, उदास निहाई पर
हल अब भी चलता हैं चीखती धरती पर
यह काम हमारा नहीं बनता है, प्रश्न नाचता है
प्रश्न के कंधों पर चढ़कर
हम लड़ेंगे साथी……………..
कत्ल हुए जज्बों की कसम खाकर
बुझी हुई नजरों की कसम खाकर
हाथों पर पड़े घट्टों की कसम खाकर
हम लड़ेंगे साथी…………………………….
हम लड़ेंगे तब तक
जब तक वीरू बकरिहा
बकरियों का मूत पीता है
खिले हुए सरसों के फूल को
जब तक बोने वाले खुद नहीं सूंघते
कि सूजी आंखों वाली
गांव की अध्यापिका का पति जब तक
युद्ध से लौट नहीं आता………………………
जब तक पुलिस के सिपाही
अपने भाईयों का गला घोटने को मजबूर हैं
कि दफतरों के बाबू
जब तक लिखते हैं लहू से अक्षर…………….
हम लड़ेंगे जब तक
दुनिया में लड़ने की जरुरत बाकी है
जब तक बंदूक न हुई, तब तक तलवार होगी
जब तलवार न हुई, लड़ने की लगन होगी
लड़ने का ढंग न हुआ, लड़ने की जरूरत होगी……………………
और हम लड़ेंगे साथी
हम लड़ेंगे
कि लड़े बगैर कुछ नहीं मिलता
हम लड़ेंगे
कि अब तक लड़े क्यों नहीं
हम लड़ेंगे
अपनी सजा कबूलने के लिए
लड़ते हुए जो मर गए
उनकी याद जिंदा रखने के लिए
हम लड़ेंगे……………………………………………..

 - अवतार सिंह संधु 'पाश'

Thursday 19 March 2015

Wo Safed Roomal - The white handkerchief


उस शाम
जब घर नहीं थी मैं
और तुम दो गाँठें
एक सफ़ेद रूमाल की
बाँध गए चुपके से
घर के ताले में?
तो मेरे मन का दुःख,
तन की व्याधि
सब अचानक बह गयी मानो परनाले में ।

 
करते क्या हो आखिर
इतने दर्द का??
जो एक ही झटके में
हर लेते हो,
आत्मा से मेरी ??
कहाँ से लाते हो
कठोर स्नेह इतना ??
कि सामने मिलने आओ न आओ,
मगर तबीयत नासाज़ होने पर
मेरे पीछे से भी दे जाते हो घर की फेरी??

और वो वाला दर्द कहाँ से लाते हो ?
जो लम्बे अरसे तक
कचोटता है मन को,
तब,
 जब तुम्हें आँखों से छूने
और कानों से पी लेने को
अस्तित्त्व का हर टुकड़ा तरसता है??

और वो वाला?
जिसे तुमसे पा कर भी,
तुमसे नफरत, गुस्सा, खीझ, पीड़ा, दुःख नहीं मिलते,
बल्कि लगता है,
कि तुम्हारा दर्द है.....
तो
मुझमें जीवन अब भी बसता है !


सुनो !
अगली बार जब आओ,
तो मेरे मिलने के बावजूद,
अपनी खुशबु से बसा तुम्हारा रूमाल फिर छोड़ जाना ।
अगली बार जब आओ,
तो
हर बार की तरह
मेरे दिमाग में कोई सवाल फिर छोड़ जाना ।।

Safed Roomaal


सुनो !
अगली बार जब - २ भी आओ
मेरे पूरे अस्तित्त्व पर
अपना भीना - महकता ख्याल फिर छोड़ जाना ।
सुनो,
अगली बार.……
थोड़ा जल्दी आना,
अगली बार........
मेरे सामने आना !

आओगे न ???



That dusky evening,
I wasn't around,
to the two knots of the handkerchief,
that you tied around the lock,
I'm still bound.
All misery,illness,
it left me all..
at the drop of a hat,
and now I feel sound.

Afterall, what do you with such pain?
one that you absorb from my soul?
Where do you find the stern disciplinary love from?
that whether or not you meet me,
you make sure to visit my door even behind me,
when I feel un-whole.

And pain, of that type...
which gnaws at my heart
and wrenches me,
when my eyes crave to devour you,
and my ears
crave to drink !
And when every ounce of my being,
craves for you,
driven to the edge and the brink?

And THAT?
Which comes from you
and still doesn't make me miserable,
but causes realization to dawn upon me.
It is this pain that
makes my heart soar,
this pain
that lets me be???

Hear me if you will,
whenever you visit me next,
despite meeting me,
leave me a handkerchief,
soaked in you...
Next time when you arrive,
leave for me a question,
and also its cue...
Whenever you come next,
every time you come again,
sprinkle your being,
your essence on me,
my individuality.

And
come soon...
next time,
let me see you, my moon.
Please???

©Anupama Garg 2015 March

Ceramic mended with gold - The Kintsugi of your soul

So finally I managed to write it, thanks to a friend who posted it on facebook as his status. The Japanese art of mending broken pots and bowls with gold is a symbolic representation of people who mend their lives after bring broken to pieces.

The most skillful master is the one who can join the finest shards with perfection. And how true that is! The wisest of the people is one who can rise as a phoenix from ashes, wear the scars as badges of honor and trust me, I could think of endless other similes.

But the question, I want to really share and ponder upon with you, is the why?

Why should there be a need to mend yourself, why should there be a need to even feel broken? Why should there be a need to break for anyone.

And then I think of the reason. What needs to be done is just be.

Kinstugi - the art that makes even scars precious and beautiful


Being broken is a part of surviving. Being able to mend the broken self is a part of being alive. But being mend clay with gold is moving towards immortality. Slowly, steadily, but consistently....

©Anupama Garg 2015 March

Saturday 14 March 2015

People - Him and Physics

When it comes to people in my life, I've met a lot of touchstones.And the more I met of them, the greedier I got. The lessons of life (and I've yet had only a few of them) were often tough, but more often, I could handle them, only because I had those holding my hand.

This is about a man, I've admired, looked up to, held in high regard not because of what he did or at what phase of my life he did it to me, but how he did it.. He started with things that had something to do with Physics and it's now about to my entire life

And what did he do? Really what? He taught me physics!

This man, the man I'm talking of, tried to not even accept me in his tutelage to begin with because he said that he taught boys and he didn't have a girls' batch. And I was fine with that. I, who hadn't spoken to any boy except brothers, cousins and family friends, was sitting in an all boys' batch, completely at a loss when it came to vectors and physical mathematics and calculations.

I didn't even feel nice about being there any longer. I wanted to vanish and go into hiding somewhere underground when he asked me if I knew vectors, I refused and he facepalmed himself.

"Now that you don't know it, let me teach you vectors before anything else. Actually if you ask me it's real simple!"

  • The Dot Product
  • The Cross Product
  • The Vector Addition
That was it ! I who was phobic of physics, was now sitting with H.C. Verma volume 2, competing against myself to finish off 50 problems a day! And that might not be any achievement for any of you who prepared for IITs and made it to those good colleges out there, to me, at that time, it was !!! :)

And eventually he stopped teaching me physics. But he had already started teaching and had taught me life THROUGH physics. His atom was not the circular Rutherford diagram I saw in books. His atom was  Shaktiman coming to life ! His heat and thermodynamics wasn't that wiered set of formulae, it was the warmth I felt in my heart ! Semiconductors were no longer some geek-looking stuff, but was actually a concept that put me in awe of what the world could be like, if not for these tiny looking atoms.

His tutelage was not physics, it was the protection from an anonymous stranger who stalked me, it was a set of words which said "Is it the first time a guy approached you? It's OK, you'll get used to it. Relax!"

His tutelage might have stopped after a year or two, his nurturing never did. At least not as long as we were in the same city. Not even when I started teaching physics with the same passion on an individual one - on - one basis to students. He gave me that passion for physics that I would have otherwise lost and the passion for life as well and that I have till date.

And the best compliment I've ever received from him, "She's a friend who used to be a student", in front of some juniors a few years later.

And one of the most precious signatures I've retrieved in my life is a piece of paper on which he wrote "Excellent" for solving a Physics problem he didn't expect anyone to solve.

In fact, while I will be eternally grateful for some forces even stronger than his to force me to think, analyze, understand and link a concept to another, I truly believe that had I not learnt physics from him, I wouldn't have loved philosophy the way I do!

It was never just about physics, it was also about poetry, it was also about music, my singing, my dad, my brother, it was always about everything. And I'm editing this post again on 19/3/2014. Because an incident today is the living proof of the fact that his nurturing hasn't stopped, his affection hasn't ceased, and it never will!

It is nice to see a picture of him recently on FB. Here's the man I'm talking about :




If you're reading this, all I want to say to you is:

Thank you!

Thank you for being who you are!

©Anupama Garg 2015 March