मानसून फिर आया है !!

कॉलेज की डायरी के पन्नों को पलटते हुए आज अचानक इस कविता पर नजर गई जो की अलग ही शैली और भाव में रचित है | बारिश की महत्ता एक किसान के लिए क्या होती है उसका वर्णन करने का एक प्रयास था |

अरमानो के दिए जलाने मानसून फिर आया है

खेतों को फिर इक बार लहलहाने मानसून फिर आया है

 अरमानो के दिए जलाने मानसून फिर आया है

कुपित हैं इन्द्रदेव वर्षों से

                    भूले खेत मुस्कुराना सरसों से

सूरज ने है खूब तपाया

                         बूंद बूंद से हमें सताया

प्यासी धरती की प्यास बुझाने, मानसून फिर आया है

                       अरमानो के दिए जलाने मानसून फिर आया है

हो गए हैं अब बीज उदास

                      पुनर्प्रक्रम ने छिनी इनकी आस

टूटा जब बैलों का जोड़ा

                             जो थोडा जोड़ा उससे जोड़ा

हारे इन मनों से जिताने, मानसून फिर आया है

                       अरमानो के दिए जलाने मानसून फिर आया है

पलायनवादी बना रही मुझे वो

                      बच्चों के सूखे तन दिखा रही वो

हरने पीर उनकी यह अंतिम प्रयास है

                          क्योंकि कहते सुना तिगुने की आस है

इस अज्ञानी तन को बतलाने, मानसून फिर आया है

                      अरमानो के दिए जलाने मानसून फिर आया है

फैले हैं हाँथ इस भिखारी के आगे

                                लौटा दे जो लिया अभागे

छुट रहे हैं अब खेत भी मेरे

                         लग न जाएँ जनम जनम के फेरे

इन घेरों से हमें छुड़ाने , मानसून फिर आया है

                      अरमानो के दिए जलाने मानसून फिर आया है

जरा फरियाद सुन ले मेरी विधाता

जरा फरियाद सुन ले मेरी विधाता

                              हर बार मनाया इस बार कैसे ना मनाता

तेरी विधि से लड़ने तैयार खड़ा हूँ

                                तुझसे कुछ पाने फिर इस बार अड़ा हूँ

सोच दया की भिक्षा हल उठवाने,मानसून फिर आया है   

                      अरमानो के दिए जलाने मानसून फिर आया है

                              ..................रजनीश

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पुनर्प्रक्रम ने छिनी इनकी आस--इस से तात्पर्य यह है कि जितना बोया उतना ही पाया तो अगली बार फसल के लिए बीज कैसे और कंहा से लाया जाये |

क्योंकि कहते सुना तिगुने की आस है-- हर बार की तरह मौसम वैज्ञानिकों के अनुसार इस बार भी अच्छी वर्षा के अनुमान हैं |

The Sagan Series -Part 4

Fourth part of The Sagan series is now available with subtitles.

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The Sagan Series (part 4) - NASA Per Aspera Ad Astra

The Sagan Series

Recently I got opportunity to work on Hindi translation of The Sagan Series videos.Thanks to Jaime Gonzalez and The Sagan Series

These videos are amazing production of some of Carl Sagan thoughts about our universe.It looks awesome in full screen view.Narrator makes it even more beautiful.

Not sure how much justice I have done with translation but I tried my best to keep it simple and relevant

Any constructive feedback are most welcome.

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Enjoy it!!

The Sagan Series (part 1) - The Frontier Is Everywhere

 

The Sagan Series (part 2) - Life Looks for Life

The Sagan Series (part 3) - A Reassuring Fable

My YouTube uploads

I am not a good photographer, making videos are not my hobby however when I hold my newly bought 14 mega pixel 14X Optical zoom digital camera with HD video recording , like many gizmo freaks I also feel like world's best camera man :-)

I appreciate talent of those who create, edit and upload videos in YouTube. It requires a great deal to create a good video.

I also attempted creating and editing two videos and uploaded in YouTube

1. Sound Mixing

2. Adding Subtitle

सर पर चढ़ा रख्खा है !!

A Daughter-in-Law to her Mother-in-law : Please don't teach me how to raise my kids - I'm married to one of yours and believe me there's room for improvement!

If you are part of a joint family then you must have heard a common phrase by elderly women “ Hamne aise hee char bachhon ko bada nahee kiya hai,Tum aaj kal ke generation 1 bachhe se hee pareshan ho jate ho”

But my personal believe is that new age parenting is far better that old age. Thanks to family planning now the count of kids in family is decreased so the love and affection of parents are not being shared and kids are being more pampered by their parents.  

Most important change of new age parenting is participation of father. In the old age parenting hardly any father might have changed the nappy of his child but new age fathers are doing it. Kids are now more close to their father. Now father is not just a figure to create discipline or earn money for upbringing but they equally participate with mother, nurturing their kids.

In my resent visit to my hometown one of my aunt praising his grandson said to me “Aaj kal ke bachhe Papa wale ho gaye hain” I replied “No its other way Aaj kal ke Papa, bachhon wale ho gaye hain”

Above images are randomly clicked by me in the streets of London in search of new age fathers.

It's Our Victory....It's Our Cup!!

We are the champions .Yes!! we have won the world cup. For us this time world cup is not brought by just word of mouth like 1983’s world cup. This is not something that we have got from the pages of history. This time we saw it, we prayed, we cheered, we shouted, we feared, we get disappointed, we get thrilled, we get exhilarated, we cried and we won it.

It’s not only important for Sachin but it’s equally important to all of us who were born in 80s and 90s. So far we have been forced to celebrate the legacy of unseen victory of 1983. We were forced to admire the veterans who were not our real heroes. We were using the tag of champion which was never earned by us. We inherited the cup of 1983 we never won it.

When we started playing cricket Sachin became our hero. With Sachin we saw the journey of Indian cricket. Today where Indian cricket stands it’s unarguably because of the god of cricket and because of us. With him we also saw the agony of 1996,  glimpse of cup in 2003, dejection of 2007 and now we witness to the victory of 2011.

  

Its our cup, Its our victory,Its our moment of pride.We are the one who waited for 28 years to see this day. Its our time to celebrate the glory of cup, It our time to shout and say it loudly “WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS”

Final Destination!!

You may get second chance at life but you can't cheat death. Death is final destination of life.

You go out to any street in London and in every nook and cranny you'll find telephone booths installed by BT. Its foundation must have been laid by monopolistic visionary thought of providing services to mobile society when phone was not mobile. It must have been most appreciative effort of its era.

But I landed here in the age of 3G and I wonder what's the use of these telephone booths now? No one uses it anymore. Why is BT so adamant and wasting its efforts to keep these services running? Is it the royal pride of a great empire, which is not able to accept its defeat by small island of nanotechnology? Its a venture which is not generating any revenue now. Once which was a convenience is now an obstacle for pedestrians.

My point is not to accuse BT for holding space and creating inconvenience to the mobile society but by this what I feel is that there is nothing on this earth which is immortal. No matter how powerful you may be today but one day your life will get defeated . So live life with dignity and accept death with pride. Those who say there is nothing you can take with you when you'll die are liar because what you will take with you after death is your worthy life

These BT installation might look worthless now but definitely it has lived long with dignity serving people around it.Now its death is certain and it will die with pride.Below is one cremation that I saw few days ago where it was going to its final destination.

HaPpY HoLi!!

                    होली सो होली ,इसी का तो नाम है होली 
                   और बिना कुछ हुए जो होय होली
          तो वो होली ना होय होली !!
                 सो होली सो होली,आओ खेलें होली 

                          Happy holi!!

सोचा ना था वापस कैसे जायेंगे...

 

जब चलना सीखा था तब ये ना सोचा था

        कि चलते चलते इतनी दूर चले आयेंगे | 

                 मुड कर वापस जाने की जब सोची

                        तब याद आया, सोचा न था वापस कैसे जायेंगे |

अंजानो से जान हुई ,

       कुछ ना जाने क्यूँ अनजान हुए |

कुछ से लम्बा नाता था,

       कुछ चन्द दुरी के महमान हुए  |

उसको बोला था रुक,

        वापस आकर तेरे संग जायेंगे  |

                            
                 मुड कर वापस जाने की जब सोची

                         तब याद आया, सोचा न था वापस कैसे जायेंगे |

मंजिल क्या थी पता नहीं था,

           रस्ते पर ही पहचान हुई   |
चाहत जगी फिर उड़ने की ,

           ना जाने कब गुल से ये गुलफाम हुई  |

उसको बोला था रुक ,     

           बस अम्बर छू कर आ जायेंगे |

                         
                  मुड कर वापस जाने की जब सोची

                          तब याद आया, सोचा न था वापस कैसे जायेंगे |

आज शिखर पर खड़े अकेले
               साहस की बातें करता हूँ |
पर जिन राहों से आया था
               उन पर वापस जाने में डरता हूँ |

उसको बोला था रुक ,     

               तेरी एक आवाज पे ही आ जायेंगे |

                            

                      मुड कर वापस जाने की जब सोची

                            तब याद आया, सोचा न था वापस कैसे जायेंगे |

                                    

देख रही हैं तेरा रास्ता
             सुनी आँखें अब उन राहों पर  |
जीने की बस एक तमन्ना
              दम निकले उन यांदों की बाँहों पर  |
उसने बोला था रुक
             तू ना आया तो तुझको लेने आ जायेंगे |

                        मुड कर वापस जाने की जब सोची

                               तब याद आया, सोचा न था वापस कैसे जायेंगे |

                                                                        रजनीश .....

My latest invention

I always knew that one day I’ll invent something however never thought it will be in kitchen.

I am going to share the recipe of the wonderful new dish that I invented today which is yet to be named so your valuable suggestions are welcome.

Before we start with main recipe here are some preconditions to make this dish.

* First It can be cooked only after 10 pm on Saturdays.

* Second the out side temperature should be below zero so that you can not think of going out.

* Third you should not be in a place where you can order some food and get free home delivery.

* Last you should be hungry but not in the mood to cook and your other roommates hoping that you are going to cook.

Ingredients:

Main ingredients to make  this dish are following.

1.First you need to search.

   
   Search what?? Nothing!!

 

You have to simply search something to eat and somehow you need to find one Maggie. Now remember one thing here you’ll be very happy once you’ll find a maggie and you’ll be tempted to make it but you have to resist yourself, because there will be two more person in your home equally hungry and one maggie is not enough for three so you need to think about them also.

2.Second you need to search again at least two good onions and two good potatoes from the sack of rotten ones in your kitchen. 

3. Third you need to open fridge and there you will find two leftover slices of brown breads. Its very good if you have brown bread leftover as its good for health however you can use white bread also.

4. Fourth you need poha. Now here is some twist!! This is main ingredient of this dish.

 Its not normal poha that you make for breakfast and eat with Jalebi. This is once in a blue moon you bought it from market thinking that you are buying poha and when first time you go on making it and put some water on it and within a second it absorbs all water and creates a mess and then you hold your head tightly by your hand saying....ohh shit!!! its not poha its chivada !!

5.Some peanuts, regular spices and yes don’t forget in the morning you cooked frozen mixed veg and some of them is still left in other pan. Use that also.

Method:

Cut the onion and potatoes in small pieces. Obviously there is no chilli left in the kitchen so forget about adding it.

Put some oil in pan and deep fry peanuts . After that put pieces of onions and potatoes.

Then add Maggie and mix it properly. After two minutes add some water add spices and let it cook for two minutes.

Then make small pieces of brown bread and add it also and mix it.

Now open the side pan and put the mixed veg.

Now add some water in poha. aahhh ..not poha; chivda or mess poha.Add it and mix it properly.

Add some more water. And in just two more minutes our supper is ready .

I hope you liked my invented dish. Fast to cook, good to eat and yet to be named!!

Cheers..

Rajneesh..