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TO BE SAD...

"Crying has become your hobby", he said I hung up, kept crying, went to bed Kept crying this morning in the train Tears continued to flow in the rain... Suddenly, in the rain, the rain very same Saw a little girl playing an innocent game With a fallen sari of her mother, happy galore Not knowing, she didn't have a home anymore I cried again, crying being my hobby Reminded of a book, read in my marble floored lobby What Colette says with a lot of conviction, Love is not an honorable emotion!
Decide where you want to reach and then you will be able to choose your path well and enjoy it thoroughly. You will know which opportunities are enriching for you and could make the best out of them. Of course, little digressions on the way are always welcome to make the journey even more interesting. But the bottom line is, KNOW WHERE YOU ARE HEADING TO! But then you meet people of all sorts on this journey. And the dangerous species, or rather let’s call them influential species, are those with no destination at all! Now attention, there are two sub categories under this: the loafers or the wanderers are the first sub category. Simply put, they are lost! There is no purpose, not even a short term goal of pleasure in what they do. They do things just because they are told to so or because someone else is also doing it. And the second sub category is the: Behti hava sa tha woh… Udti patang sa tha woh.. Humko toh raahein thi chalati, wo khud apni rah banata Girta, sambhalta, masti se ch...

well done abba

"Well Done Abba"- the title plays on the word "well" (baudi- as Boman Irani puts in his Biryani flavored Hyederabadi Hindi). the story revolves around how Imran Ali(Boman Irani)'s well goes missing and the whole attempt to this well back. The actors are introduced on screen through the characters. They seem to emerge from pages of a notebook, Shyam Benegal's notebook. Boman Irani plays Abba, and also the twin brother Rehman Ali. Ila Arun plays Rehman Ali's wife, Salma. Although the couple doesn't have a major role in the main intrigue, one cannot ignore them completely n Boman Irani in double role is definitely a double bonanza!!! Minisha Lamba has been convincingly made to look a teenager. Sammir Dattani scores high on the cuteness scale and does his job pretty "well". Both Lamba (Muskan) n Dattani (Aarif) represent the educated gen-next who can bring about a change in the "system". One cannot but help comparing the movie with We...

la littérature française

Une amie qui ne fait que des comptes M'a demandé de raconter des contes "Qu'est-ce que c'est que vous faites là? Tant d'années de la littérature, oh là là! Mais ça va! Tout ce qu'il faut faire C'est lire les romans et faire des commentaires Raconte-moi, disais-je, quelques anecdotes Qui vous font passer le temps et gagner des notes" Pour commencer, j'ai fait du Maupassant Pas de nouvelle, j'ai raconté un souvenir passant: C'était ma première "aventure" je me souviens Dieu Merci que ça me rarement revient! Dans un studio parisien, un homme se couche Avec une jeune femme sans "faire le verrou" Le propiétaire entre, quel outrage! Pourquoi aurait-il écrit un tel ouvrage? Le recit se termine avec l'homme qui jure "Toujours faire le verrou avant une telle aventure!" Puis je suis passée à Albert Camus Qui a laissé un demi monde tout ému Un Prix Nobel, chez lui, s'est bien arrangé Pour son roman envahissant ...

silent resort

what a day! i went for my first ever staff picnic to this place called the Silent Resort in Palghar. it was nice to see all the teachers who u normally saw only in salwar-kameez or saree (n m not talkin about the majority, its the dress code!) in jeans n tee. perfect time for a picnic when we hv jus got done with portion n will have to start with exams soon.. it was a real stress buster! the place is subtitled The Whispering Gallery of nature. so very true. its vast ok! n there are several "aram kutir" with cots. the hammocks by the river side are a real pleasure. there r very few rides but pools of various sizes where u can just let your body loose. rain dance is quite fun too. its just impossible to resist the jhulas of all sizes n variety. there is ample place for cricket n other outdoor sports too. they have embellished the otherwise not-so-ethnic place with random wooden carved doorways. the food is as decent as it can be in such places.. dont forget to have the gola.. s...

apollinaire

MAIS C’EST QUI, APOLLINAIRE ? A : Mais enfin, c’est qui, Guillaume Apollinaire ? Quelle ignorance que ne le connaitre guère ? B : J’ai entendu parler que c’est un écrivain Qui met en valeur l’avion et le train A : Mais non! Un poète, pas un écrivain Un peintre, un artiste, mais jamais écrivain Ce style classique, qu’on fait sa devise N’est pour lui, qu’une grande méprise Le vieux sujet de poésie- l’amour La peine, et la souffrance de l’amour La mort, la Méduse, l’écoulement du temps On en a beaucoup parlé depuis bien longtemps La femme qui est la donneuse de mort Il en parle lais en changeant le ressort Ce n’est plus de lyrisme, d’allégorie, de ballade Ses poèmes ont pour intention, nous rendre malade Mais ne vous trompez pas- ce n’est pas son but «Je m’émerveille » se dit-il comme il débute C’est lui qui imagine toujours l’imaginable De jongler avec des mots, il en est capable La Tour pour lui, se transforme en bergère Il parle du quotidien d’une façon légère C’est lui qui ose s’adres...

SAB DESH KE LIYE HI TOH HAI!... one of the first poems i wrote, n till date my favorite :)

Kuch saal pehle jab krantiveer aayi, Naana ne desh ki sthiti aakdon ke saath batayee Kaha, "Sau mein se assi beyimaan, Phir bhi Mera Bharat Mahan!" Haal hi mein jab Denny ne muavza kiya, Naana ke statistics ko radd kiya. Assi ka ab 99 hua, To lo, yeh desh ka haal hua. Toh kya hua gar hum beyimaan hai? Hum kya New Zealand ya Japan hai? Yeh phalsafa aam insaan ki samajh ke bahar hai bhai, beyimaani se toh uncha humara-aapka sir hai! Socho gar beyimaani na hoti toh kya hota? Yaani bhrashthachaar ka janm hi na hota! Netaon ka pait khali reh jaata Adha desh garibi ki rekha se upar aa jata. sarkar ke paiso se janta mauj karti Netaon ki tond (paunch) phir tond na rehti. Par aam aadmi to desh mein hi rehta, Khata-peeta aur aish karta Netaon par toh desh ke netrutva ka diyatva hai (Bhagwan! Inke haathon mein hamara bhavishya hai!) Tond hone se yeh khate-peete lagte hain desh ki khadya samasya par parda karte hain. Yunhi toh desh ka naam roshan hota hai. Pata nahi logo ko kyun gham hot...