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16 November

winter

Hey, pause for a while ...
 
Behold!
Not far, the winter treads
the leaves are shed like a carpet laid
Soon the earth, the sky will be just white and gray
... she rules
as far as you can see

The denizens reach out skywards
to catch the warmth
of the ever elusive sun
to nourish their frozen saps

As the sun shines past the clouds
they say ... let us thaw a little ...
and they reach out
to savour
the rare pleasures of touch
... the touch of warmth
14 October

What a Peace of Luck!

 

The winner of the nobel peace prize for the year 2009 is ...

Yes. We all know now. Barrack Obaamaa.
The joke of the year - Nobel Peace Prize 2009.

Nobel Peace Prize for a man heading a country which is fighting wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran! It makes the award itself insignificant and mocks the institution.
There are some questions. What is the criteria for the award? Is it possible that certain Noble Prizes are awarded for political reasons? What is the point of awarding the prize to Obama? What are his achievements?

Obama may have been a good choice for being nominated for the TIMES Man-of-the-Year Award in December 2009. But Nobel Peace Prize! There must be something to this error in judgement, or else how could it happen so many times over in the awarding of a prize relating to work for PEACE.

Al Gore - was it as a compensation to having lost the Presidential election? Otherwise what has Climate Change got to do with peace. Al Gore should have been given the BBC World Challenge Award 2007 not the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nelson Mandela - for having spent 27 years in prison? How was he instrumental in ending apartheid in SA, sitting in a prison? Yes he was peaceful all the 27 years. It was not the personal initiatives of Mr. Mandela and Mr. de Klerk that ended apartheid in SA. It were the circumstances that compelled them to. It was not an individual here who was responsible for founding democracy in SA. The democratic movement had that strength.

I am sure, there are many more examples.
And I am sure there is a better explanation to this announcement in the category of Peace.
15 January

skated !

It was after twenty odd years that I donned a skating shoe (in fact a pair of them).  It was, though, with a difference that now, I was on blades, on ice and surprisingly balanced. This was on the new year's eve on Nevsky Prospect.  For an hour I glided along with my princess. By the end my ankles ached a bit, but it was fun.
20 November

his palette or mine


the last of the auburn leaves
    fall quivering
       the canvass - void
          the solemnity of white and black
              glows on the bare branches
                  a spill of rare sunshines - wraps
                       warmth rush the dried veins of life
                         singed by the coldest drifts
                            fated by the chisels of frost
                               a splash of green, a bloom flourishes
                                   on the first day of spring


14 November

क्यों लब्जों में मेरे है

    कवियों सी बानी

गर्मियों की तुम ठंडी पवन हो
सर्दियों की नर्म धूप तुम हो
बारिश की बूंदों सी तुम्हारी सदायें

रात घनी है या जुल्फें खुलीं हैं
चाँद खिला है या है चेहरा तुम्हारा
हवा में तुम्हारे बदन की है खुशबू
फ़िज़ा में तुम्हारे आँचल की छाया
यह श्याम सुनहरी
है या तुम्हारे पलकों का साया

बता दो कोई यह हुआ क्या मुझे है
क्या इसी को लोग दीवानगी हैं कहते
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