Mundane Myriad

   अंतहीन चाहतों के समुंदर में , ये ज़िंदगी बैठी है ना खुलके हँसती है , ना जीती है सबकुछ के अंदर खुद को अधूरा पाती है अनगिनत चाहतों के दल - दल में फँसी हुई ये ज़िंदगी , कमियों   और खामियों की लंबी सूची बाँधने चली है                                                     (1) “ ये ऐसा होना था , नहीं हुआ ” “ मुझे वो नहीं मिला ” और “ मिला भी तो क्या मिला ” “ और उसने ऐसा बोल्दिया " तो फिर  " और किसीने कुछ ना बोला ” ऐसे ऐसे ना जाने कितने फरियादों को लेके बैठी है                               ...

Columbus would have never strayed from his path if he had the Google map with him and never named the places wrong if he had referred to Wikipedia. The IT revolution came much later, but came as a tsunami. Redefined the way one would look at people, places and relationships. Remember, the old times when one would take years to find a lost friend or a lost face in the crowd. And if the lost face happened to be your love interest, it’d take years of hard effort to just have a sight of the face besides the societal, parental & brethren barriers. With all those struggles, if you could finally succeed in finding the person you wanted in life, you were overwhelmed, treasured them for life, marriage, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and so on followed….We have come of that age now. You wanna know about someone, just google the name, possibility is you will collide with him/her in one or the other social platforms… facebook, whatsapp, instagram, twitter, you name it… Mo...

Aapne mera ungli pakad ke chalna shikhaya hoga, mujhe yaad nahin… Aapne mere liye bahut raat jaaga hoga, mujhe yaad nahin….. Aapne mere liye aapka bahut kimti waqt diya hoga, mujhe yaad nahin…. Aapne mere liye chun chunke bahut saman laya hoga, mujhe yaad nahin… Aapne mere pasand ki bahut cheez kiya hoga, mujhe yaad nahin…. Aaapne mujhe bahut hasaya hoga, mujhe yaad nahin…. Aaapne  mere liye anginat duwaein manga hoga, mujhe yaad nahin… Aapne khud khane se pehle bahat bar mujhe khilaya hoga, mujhe pata bhi nahin… Ye sab ki jab aaj yaad aati hai aur pata chalta hai, to aap ho nahin…. (In the memory of my father)