रांझे नु ढून्धन, मैं चली

मेनू रांझा मिल्या नाही

रांझे  नु ढून्धन, मैं चली

मेनू रांझा मिल्या नाही

रब मिल्या 

रांझा ना मिल्या

रब मिल्या

रांझा ना मिल्या

रब रांझे जैसा नाही

रब रांझे जैसा नाही

रब रांझे जैसा नाही

रब रांझे जैसा नाही...

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

~ Woody Allen

Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
  

May you work from the wisdom that what you ask would in fact be given, and hence know what it is that you may ask

May you have the courage to seek, and seek with the utmost purity..for then it shall find you

May you know what door to knock, and when opened, may you have the gumption to walk through it

May you have the eyes to see that God delivers on every promise he makes

Wondered several times today..is there anything I want to write...?

A quote in my head..? A song...?

I don't hear it.. no, there mustn't be anything today.

Yet I come here several times. And stare like one stares at the mirror.But don't wait long enough to catch the reflection.

No, maybe there reeaaaly isn't anything today.

I switch everything off..I am sleepy, like, real sleepy!

But wait, I can't sleep..

And I come back..to reassure myself, there really is nothing I will write about today..

A post to those who find me

She pinged me.

As usual.

That's how our conversation usually begins. She finds me..when I am looking around, waiting to be found, and not quite knowing it.

I tell her I have started a blog.. and don't quite know what to do with it now. She checks out the link, and says, "Your blog is certainly different."

I am pleased that it is, without having made any special efforts in that direction. I am wondering if she means the template.

"Most people don't quote Will Durant or recent articles they have read", she continues.

I explain that I haven't followed too many blogs before presuming to begin one myself, so perhaps I am not in on what possibilities exist in the quoting business. I just wrote what was top of my mind at midnight, I further explain.

"Most people write about general stuff that happens in their life..", she says.

I am most uncomfortable and sheepish at this point. In my defense, I point out that it is a bold enough thing for me to begin a blog in the first place, considering it's so completely uncharacteristic of me.

She doesn't think so. "In fact I think it's quite logical for you to do so. You like sharing such things with people, as much as you resist having to reach out... It's not like you don't want to..."

She knows. She knows.

"It's mainly that you are incredibly lazy!"

She knows...My mind is suddenly doing numbers..We have not met in the last 2.5 years.. It's been 6 years since we have been regularly in touch...

"In any case, you are just absorbed in what you want to say", I am guessing is what she'll say next. She had said something to this effect, and I had laughed, and we had become friends... How long ago was that..??

"Happy Friendship day", she says, instead.

"Oh shit", say I.

And the mind again races back... Should I give her the green and black friendship band, or the pink and yellow one, I had wondered..How long ago was that...?!!!

"I love you," I say. "Be in touch.. you can visit my blog now," I cheerily point out.

She is kind not point out, that it certainly was the intention with orkut...and then with facebook! Instead she says, "Yes, this should make it much easier."

I don't know why I am starting this blog..it began with clicking 'Create Blog' while visiting someone else's blog..and then with thinking what name I would give if I had a blog...and then what template I would like to have..and then..there was a post..then 3 posts... and now this.

And this post does talk about general stuff happening in my life. So, there!

"I would just like to share it with a few people, you know", I had said... Maybe I want to make it easier to be found! Lol..

In a perfectly theatrical manner, it does happen to be Friendship Day today, and for the 'just a few people', most of whom I depend on to do the finding, I do hope to find you too..

The balance of power, then and now

Story presented by CNN-IBN on 31st July 2010: 

An elite school in Bangalore has landed in controversy for saying the Right to Education Act which reserves 25 per cent seats in schools for underprivileged children will compromise discipline and the quality of education.

The shocking statement has triggered protests from various groups.

Will Durant writes of 2500 years ago..:

"Every science and every branch of philosophy developed a technical terminology intelligible only to its exclusive devotees.

As men learned more and more about the world, they found themselves ever less capable of expressing to their fellow men what it was that they had learned. The gap between life and knowledge grew wider and wider.In the midst of unprecedented learning, popular ignorance flourished, and chose its exemplars to rule the great cities of the world.

....if knowledge became too great for communication, it would degenerate into scholasticism, and the weak acceptance of authority."

" Grow strong, my comrade...that you may stand
Unshaken when I fall; that I may know
The shattered fragments of my song will come
At last to finer melody in you
That I may tell my heart that you begin
Where passing I leave off, and fathom more"


~ Will Durant

Do you see that whooshing through the leaves...?

...I have left
but not yet reached
When I reach
That will be the end
I would have arrived...