Ehsaas ke Alfaaz

Today world is remembering today's day as World Cancer Day. Most of you who are reading about this must be having some emotional connection or someone you know who is or was fighting cancer at some point in life. For me it was a transformational journey. I suffered emotional cancer.  I know, medical science identifies no diease as such, but when cancer has taken over someone beloved you are affected by it.  I was! My world turned upside down.    I was working in Ahmedabad, my first job and first time that I was away from home. My mother was the force behind my lone survival in the new city. In would often call her and say, "you don't love me, that's why you have just let me be here alone." I accused her for my initial hiccups to adjust in a new place. Calm and composed like always she never got angry at me. She never lost her faith, she knew it was just matter of time that I'd adjust in the new city and things will get rolling. And so it was. I blended with ne...

You have just purchased a lovely bouquet of flowers and are decked up to attend a birthday party.  You park your vehicle at a distance and walk a few meters towards your destination. On your way, lays a gutter with no lid and venting the stinky smell of the dump it stores within.  It irritates your olfactory senses and you are irritated. What would you do?  Most of us will say we'd walk away from that place real quick, and we'd immediately hunt our bags and pockets for any perfumes we might be carrying. Lastly we'd have the flower bouquet that will come to the rescue.  Such are the negative situations, of life. They are full of opinions, judgements, perceptions, toxicity, gossip making them stinky. Whenever you cross roads with such situations they are bound to bother you, but most of us instead of walking away towards positivity, sit over this negative gutter and inhale it and get further irritated.  We were destined to meet the gutter, the handling of the situ...

It’s that time of the year again when the snowflakes have covered the land, Christmas carols have echoed in the neighborhood and the holidays have begun. As all of us await to welcome yet another calendar year, I sit back and ponder upon the year that has just a few hours left to its life. The year has been extraordinary. The good and the bad, the happiness and the sorrows, the turbulence and the tranquility. 2020 has blended all of them together and served human race a drink they haven’t tasted before. This year will remain in the history of human race, that has pandemic written in bold on its cover page. The book runs into the pages of uncertainty, fear, sickness and loss. It also has the essence of awareness, co-existence and gratitude, but they are metaphorically penned by the creator, it is at the behest of the reader to soak up this elixir of wisdom. If we balance the year on a scale, the losses outweigh the gains, but the lessons that have bloomed in this dynamic time have great...

Bad mother She yells, she screams, she has job no other, Look she is a bad mother.... She cleans up the mess ten times a day Mopping and sweeping the floor all the way Once a while, she looses her cool Calls her child, oh! You fool There and then, they pass a judgment Learn to stay calm make some adjustment The moments of your patience, no one would bother They'd all just repeat look, she is a bad mother No matter, whatever you sacrifice, You're a mother you have to pay a price, You will always be tagged, For the things that are lagged, They don't see you cry, They just keep asking why? When would they know you're just tired and not a loather When will they stop saying Look, she is a bad mother! 

एक मशहूर कलाकार ने , एक गरम दोपहर अपने कमरे मै फांसी लगाकर आत्महत्या कर ली। जैसे ही उसकी आत्मा उसके शरीर से आज़ाद हुई, वह अपने बेजान पड़े मृत शरीर को दो टुक देखता रहा ।  उसे यकीन नहीं हुआ की वो ऐसा कर पाया । उसे अपने दर्द से मुक्ति मिल चुकी थी।  उसे एक अलग सी आज़ादी का अनुभव हुआ।  लाज़मी है की , सांसारिक दुखो से मुक्ति तो सुख का ही अनुभव देगी।  उसे लगा की अब वो सुखी है।  उसका ह्रदय शांत है। वो अपने कमरे में अपनी पसंदीदा चीज़ो को देखता और एक आखरी बार उन्हें छूने की कोशिश करता , पर अफ़सोस की कुछ छू ना पाता।  शरीर त्याग देने के बाद उसकी आत्मा को ये परमिशन नहीं थी की वो संसार से किसी भी तरह से कांटेक्ट कर पाए।   वो सब देख और सुन पा रहा था, पर उसका रिएक्शन कोई देख सुन नहीं सकता  था।  थोड़ी ही देर मै उसके घर में लोग जमा होगये।  देश भर में खलबली मच गई ये सुनकर, की इतने होनहार कलकार , इतने विद्वान व्यक्ति , समृद्धि व्यक्ति ने आखिर आत्महत्या क्यों की ? वो सबको अपने दिल का दर्द बताना चाहता था , लेकिन शायद अब बहुत देर हो चली थी।    वो अभी व...

गिरा सकते हो मुझे कितना,  मै फिर उठ खडा हो जाऊंगा।  बीज हु मै, धरती को चीर ,  फिर फूल सा मुस्कुराउंगा।  मेरे होसलो को तुम कहा झुका पाओगे,  मै बाज़ हु मुझे कैसे कैद कर पाओगे ।  तोड़ सको जितना, उतनी बार तोड़ लेना,  मैं मकड़ी सा जाला फिर से बनाऊंगा।  गिरा सकते हो मुझे कितना,  मैं फिर उठ खड़ा हो जाऊंगा।  मैं नदी सा चंचल हु,  पहाड़ तोड़ रास्ता बनाऊंगा।  तुम चाहे घने बादल से गरजना मै इंद्धनुष् बन आसमान पर छाउँगा।  हिम्मत को टुटने नही दूंगा,  तुम्हारे तीरो से मैं अपना छत्र बनाऊंगा।  गिरा सकते हो मुझे कितना,  मैं फिर उठ खडा हो जाऊंगा।  मैं  सुवर्ण कुंदन हु,  भट्टि मे निरंतर चमकता जाऊंगा।  बंद अगर हु पिंजरे मे तो क्या हुआ,  इस लोह तार को इक दिन तोड़ जाऊंगा।  मैं कृष्ण हु, जकड़ लो बेड़ियों मे मुझे,  मैं फिर भी तुम्हारे कैद से निकल जाऊंगा।  गिरा सकते हो मुझे कितना मै फिर उठ खड़ा हो जाऊंगा।