Celebrations of Nature

अजीब सा जादु है,
सुखे पत्तों कि खडखडाह्ट में,
सुबह कि किरणों में,
अंधेरे की आहट में,
घुमडते-गरजते-बरसते मेघों में,
मदमस्त से नाचते वन मयुरों में,
नवयुवान इन कलियों में,
बच्चों कि अठखेलियों में
अजीब सा जादु है ।

बारिश की बुँदों में,
वन विचरते मृग-वृंदों में,
सौंधी माटी की महक में,
पक्षियों के नयनाभिराम चहक में,
हिमगिरी के धवल शिखरों में,
सागर के शांत कोलाहल में,
गंग की तरंग में,
बसंत की उमंग में,
अजीब सा जादु है ।

पुरब के संदल पवन में,
सितारों से आच्छादित,
चाँद से आलोकित
पुर्णिमा के इस गगन में,
कार्तिक के शीतल भोर में,
फ़ागुन कि मस्ती में,
गाँव की उस बस्ती में,
अजीब सा जादु है ।



पंकदल में पडे जल-मोतियों में,
गहरे समंदर में पलते सीपियों में,
नवयौवन की अंगडाइयाँ लेती युवतीयों में,
पराग ढुंढती इन तितलियों में,
ग़ोधुली की उस साँझ में,
अरुणशिखा की बाँग में,
कोयल की आवाज में,
नदियों के कलकल नाद में,
मांझी के गीत में,
सवेरे की उस सीत में,
अजीब सा जादु है ।

जादु है,सौंदर्य है,एक नशा है प्रकृति
आत्मिक सुख है,अतुल्य शांति है प्रकृति
रुग्णों की औषध,जीने की शक्ति है प्रकृति
निराशों कि आशा,एक सच्ची अनुभूति है प्रकृति ।

The poem is meant to celebrate the eternal beauty of nature...

Fact or Fiction?

I don't know whether u believe in spirits or not. I am someone who lies in between. I have been always doubtful regarding the authenticity of any story or phenomena related to ghosts/spirits. Simultaneously,i never deny their existence.

The story I am going to tell you today will probably help clear the air to some extent.
Way back in 2k4,me and some friends were having a discussion on planechit(the so called process by which spirits are called upon and made to answer questions in symbolic way ). As we came to know,during the process,all the interested ppl sit in a circle and concentrate on a metallic coin and invite the spirits onto the coin toanswer their queries. As always,some of us were not convinced with the theory,we decided to prove it wrong,not to convince others but to ourselves.
I had a different explanation to the whole process,My take was,if the coin moves at all,it's solely due to concentration and not because of any ghost moving it. So we four decided to go for it and check whether our assumption was right or not.

Cometh the hour,we all four assembled into a quiet room,put a circle around the coin so that if it moves,it will be noticeable.It was decided that everybody would concentrate in a common direction for the coin to move,so that we have substantial force to make it happen.Wwith the index finger of all four(mohit,bhanu,bibhuti and me) placed lightly on the coin, we started. Seconds passed trying to concentrate,a few minutes passed and we all were concentrating hard enough. It seemed the whole world around me has vanished and the only thing that remains is coin.
After approximately 15 minutes,the unthinkable happened,THE COIN MOVED..yes and that too by a clear few inches,it seemed some force was pulling the coin in the direction we concentrated. Then someone from us said stop and we all stopped.
It was unbelievable,we all were glaring each other in complete disbelief as if asking whether you forcely pulled the coin. But, a mere glimpse in the eyes of rest three was sufficient for me and others to believe what we have witnessed. We all sweared to each other not to have done it forcibly. It was still hard to believe,a coin moving by force of concentration!!!! Till now,I had read such things only in books,today I saw it. We all knew no one would believe it, and we didn't even tried to convince others. But inside all of us we knew the truth and that was sufficient without anyone else endorsing our views.

After the experiment,no one took the 2 rupee coin,for some fear was still there that there may be spirits coming uninvited(none wanted to take risk). However, I took it(hehe...bhuton ke dar se 2 rupya kyun chhodein)..

And even today, this piece of writing is for believers only. None-believers may try it out themselves and share there experiences with me. I would be quite happy to hear from them.

Hollywood Bollywood

Well, I have just watched the movie JUST LIKE HEAVEN and I find my fingers are already moving anticipating a new blog[:)]
This certainly is not about love or such feelings what I am going to write about is Movies..yeah, more precisely romantic movies.

After watching scores of bollywood movies and a few of Hollywood's ,I feel that movies made in india lack the kind of intensity or creativity that hollywood boasts of.
Talking about Romantic ones,Hollywood movies like Serendipity,If only,Little Manhanttan,50 First Dates,Just like Heaven,Love Actually and many more(List goes very long) take you to a very high level and you keep thinking about the characters,the theme long after the movie.This kind of effect is found missing in hindi Movies ,Even if you name the best ones like Devdas,Heer-Ranjha they stand nowhere against the names mentioned a few line above.
Hollywood movies of all type have one thing in common,they are intense,even if it's comedy it's an intense one,you get the best of the kind you are watching.In Romantic movies, they are very rich in content whether be it emotional or physical which probably our hindi directors probably never cared to provide or in other words they never went that extra step forward to defy the conventional limits.They never innovated enough .Even if you watch other type of movies like The troy,Alexander,Kingdom of Heaven,Star wars,Lord of the Rings you are left your breath gasping by the magnanimous scale of
men and materials involved.

Globalistion is the hue and cry these days and it's the time our film industry also goes global,which can only come when you respect creativity and keep Innovating.