A Thousand Desires Such As These(Hazaaron Khwahishen Aisi)

A thousand desires such as these
A thousand moments to set this night on fire
Reach out and you can touch them
You can touch them with your silences
You can reach them with your lust
Rivers mountains rain
Rain against a torrid hill’s cape
A thousand
A thousand desires such as these
हजारों ख्वाहिशें ऐसी कि हर ख्वाहिश पे दम निकले
बहुत निकले मेरे अरमाँ, लेकिन फिर भी कम निकले
I loved rain as a child
As a lost young man
Empty landscapes
Bleached by a tired sun
And then
And then suddenly it came
Like a dark unknown woman
Her eyes scorched my silences
Her body wrapped itself around me
Like a summer without end
निकलना खुल्द (Paradise) से आदम का सुनते आये हैं लेकिन
बहुत बे-आबरू होकर तेरे कूचे से हम
हजारों ख्वाहिशें ऐसी कि हर ख्वाहिश पे दम निकले
बहुत निकले मेरे अरमाँ, लेकिन फिर भी कम निकले
Pause me, hold me, reach me,
Where no man has gone
Crossing the seven seas
With the wings of fire
I fly towards nowhere
And you
Rivers mountains rain
Rain against a scorched landscape of pain
मुहब्बत में नहीं है फ़र्क जीने और मरने का
उसी को देख कर जीते हैं जिस काफिर पे दम निकले
A thousand desires such as these
A thousand moments to set this night on fire
Reach out and you can touch them
You can touch them with your silences
You can reach them with your lust
Rivers mountains rain
Rain against a torrid hill’s cape
A thousand
A thousand desires such as these

~Swanand Kirkire & गालिब

Poem

Twinkle that your parted lips brought,
Solace nowhere I ever sought.
Fragrant winds harbingered your arrival,
Heavens on earth spruced up for a carnival.
Meadows marveled on what had just flown,
And even hope hoped "You would just be my own".
Delights unfound gathered a new zeal,
Sorrows clustering me, now I could never feel.
Thinking I thought what wrong every time goes,
I then discovered, your love had made me many foes!

Had written it in college days. Found that scribbled piece few weeks back & hence thought of posting it here.
These poems are damn tough business. Not my types.

Merry Christmas

Why is Ambulance White?

• Ambulance is used to carry ill or hurt people to the hospitals.
• “AMBULANCE” on ambulance is always written as a mirror image so that people driving in front of this ambulance can easily read it in their mirrors so that they can give side to the ambulance.
• To give side means to either go to the left side of the road if you are driving in the left-hand-traffic country or to go to the right side of the road if you are driving in the right-hand-traffic country.
• Many countries have right hand driving system & many other left countries have left hand driving system.
• Officially, in India we have to drive on the left. But we usually drive on what is left.
• Because of this, many road accidents take place & that is why, in the first case, ambulance is needed to carry people to the hospitals.
• So, you can put it this way that sometimes the Ambulance itself riding on the road is the reason of its existence. So, if the opportunity is not knocking on your door, get on the other side & you knock it yourself. A good market building strategy.
• Talking about hospitals; there are many hospitals in many big cities. But then too, citizens always cry that they are not enough. This is because there are also many ill people in these many much big cities.
• People get ill because of cheesy chuck or virulent viruses or bossy bosses. (Hmmm… Alliteration) Boss when used as adjective means “Exceptionally good”, like in “a boss hand at painting”. But i haven’t seen any boss boss.
• Boss is also used as not-so-meaningful word, where any other word could also easily replace it, like in “Kya boss! Kuch bhi kya?” or “Booosssss! Kya dikhti hai wo!”
• Many people speak many meaningless things many times. Many of these many choose to be much more meaningless by choosing to say many meaningless things many times. (Alliteration again! Hey, this is also alliteration again. So it’s cyclic alliteration.)
• I hate and love such things as i hate to love and love to hate.
• As we are speaking of love and hate, let me tell you that a research from Yale University suggests that love-hate relationships may be the result of poor self-esteem.
• But that’s got nothing to do with our ambulance.
• But, you all have to do with The Princess Anne Hathaway who starred with Meryl Streep in The Devil wears Prada, who, by the way is MFA from Yale University. I mean Meryl, not Anne. & by the way, Anne's dad was a lawyer ;)
• But more than these two, i like Rachel Weisz. & being F.R.I.E.N.D.S fan, i like Matt LeBlanc too.
• Do you now what’s common between these two. No?!?!?!? Let me tell you then. Weisz means white in German and LeBlanc also means white but in French.
• That’s why the Ambulance is White.
• Hence Proved :)

3D Rangoli

It’s an amazing experience to go touring undiscovered directions to meet at the same destination that others come to treading on mapped roads. That’s how i now realized why learned people said that it was the journey that mattered. Or else, being conventional is very conventional. Not playing with word, as i usually do, i would play with colours now…………………

The hands that rocked the world…………………

Some paper work…………………

Let’s get started…………………


Colouring lives…………………

One view…………………

Another view…………………

And now,

THE VIEW…………………

Schindler's list

This is one of the best Oscar winners. Much has been said & written about it already. And that will continue, as it deserves it. Google it & you would get more than you would want. Movie keeps you stunned & amazed & bewildered & hopeful & inspired (& many more emotions) throughout. It takes you on a real wonderful tour. It’s all in itself. Biggest surprise for me was to read director’s name in the credits. I had not known about Spielberg’s potential. His image, for me, has changed now. All the colours, black & white, have been used worthily. This will remain as my most memorable movie.

Evening Law Colleges in Mumbai

I have hunted a lot for this information & when i have finally got enough i would like to post it on net for ease of other people who are also looking for it.

I have found in total three evening colleges for Law in Mumbai.
Their names & contacts are as below:

1)Dr. Ambedkar College of Law,
People’s Education Society’s,
Opp. BEST Bus Depot,
Tilak Road Extension,
Wadala,
Mumbai-400031
Tel: (022) 24182958 (this works)

2)Thane Municipal Council Law College,
Vidya Prasarak Mandal's (VPM)
Chendani Bunder Road,
Thane-400601
Tel: (022) 25364194 (i am not sure)

3)Jitendra Chauhan College of Law (JC College)
Mithibai College Campus,
Vile Parle (W),
Mumbai-400 056
Tel: (022) 26142346 (this works)

ELIGIBILITY: These colleges are for 3 year degree course in law. (They also offer other diploma course which i have no much idea about.) You are eligible to take admissions here if you are GRADUATE from any stream from anywhere in the world. (Any stream means literally any. Arts, Commerce, Science, Engineering, Biochemistry, Fishery, Rocket Science, any, any, anything will do. And anywhere also means India, Pakistan, Switzerland, Mauritius, Australia, Uganda, Vatican, any, any, anywhere will do. Aaa…Yes? From where did you say? Bode’s Galaxy? Sorry i don’t know about that……but maybe……you can still give it a shot!)


YOU MUST HAVE: Attested copies of your Degree Certificate, attested copies of your Mark lists of all years & semesters of Degree, attested copies of your Date of Birth Proof, attested copies of your Present Address, attested copies of your Caste & other Creamy Layer Certificates, your passport sized photos, black ball pen (working perfectly) & lots of lots of time & patience.
For students who have their Graduate Degree form any non-Mumbai University will have to apply to the Mumbai University for their Provisional Eligibility Certificate. But this is done AFTER you have taken admission in your respective colleges. Actually it is done through the college in which you take admission. So don’t worry before.

These all colleges are affiliated with the Mumbai University. They have classes from around 5:30-6pm to 9-9:30pm. For further more information, contact me personally.