Happy New Year.. :)

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जुर्रत

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'देश' याने क्या...

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उन दिनों की बात है..

Here is one of my old Hindi poems recited  in my own voice..!! Please note, this poem is completely based on my observations and imagination (just like other poems) and not based on my personal experience.. :)

घडण कवितेची..

Enjoy one of my old Marathi poems in my own voice..!!

जब तू खफा हो गई..

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पराये इस देश मे...

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कभी तुमको खफा किया करूँ..

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ऐ बेखौफ़ जिंदगी...

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जो सवाल जहेन में उठा है

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अतीत के पन्नो से होकर
वर्तमान से आहत
भविष्य से डरता हुआ
एक सवाल जहेन में उठा है

मुझे हिंदू नही क्रिश्चन नही
मुस्लिम नही ज्यू नही
शिख नही ईसाई नही
बौद्ध नही जैन नही
बस एक इनसान बनकर जीना है
क्या मेरे लिए कोई जगह है ??

मुझे काला नही गोरा नही
क्षुद्र नही ब्राह्मण नही
वैश्य नही क्षत्रिय नही
सिया नही सुन्नी नही
उचा नही और नीचा भी नही
बस एक इनसान बनकर जीना है
क्या मेरे लिए कोई जगह है ??

ना जाने क्यों लगता है
सवाल ये सबके मन मे छुपा है
बस एकबार झाककर देखो
इस सवाल के लिए
क्या आपके मन मे भी कोई जगह है ??

अतीत के पन्नो से होकर
वर्तमान से आहत
भविष्य से डरता हुआ
जो सवाल जहेन में उठा है

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A Boy calling God’s helpline...

(Disclaimer: This drama is completely based on my own imagination and I am writing it with the sole purpose of entertainment)

(boy dials the God’s helpline no. )

Reply: All the lines in this route are busy. Please try again after some time.

(after couple of tries, call connects.. and bell rings.. tring tring, tring tring)

Recorded Message: Welcome to the God’s helpline. For family related problems please press 1, for office problems press 2, for health related problems press 3, for socio-political problems press 4 and if you are a Broken Heart (love problems) please press 5

(boy presses 5)

Recorded Message: Dear caller, your call is being transferred to our ‘Human being care officer’ (HBCO) and please note that this call can be recorded for internal training purposes.

(HBCO is online)

HBCO: Good evening sir, how may I help you??

Boy: Hey hi, actually my heart is broken up and it is hurting a lot... so I am looking for some quick remedy.

HBCO: Ok sir, but can you please brief me how and when it happened?

Boy: Ya, so it just happened a day before... my heart was deeply involved with one of my friends and when I expressed my feelings to her, she said it is not going to work... this is when it just got broken up and behaving insane, making me suffer from severe emotional pain. Please suggest me some quick solution..

HBCO: Sure sir, I will definitely help you with that... Please kindly be online sir while I check the details... 

(Comes back after 3 mins, by then Boy is already pissed off)

HBCO: Thank you for being online sir, as a quick remedy you will have to restart your heart sir...

Boy: Oh..oh... hold on... what the heck are you telling me???

HBCO: Yes sir, it will solve your problem sir... I am telling you the detailed steps to do that sir, please note-

1.       First sit on the ground with your legs folded

2.       Then close your eyes sir

3.       Now you will have to stop your breathing for exactly 3mins and 14.3 seconds

4.       Then restart your breathing exactly after above duration and that’s all sir...

Boy: Hey what is this nonsense haa... and what happens if I miscalculate the time duration and restart my breathing after 0.1 or 0.2 seconds later??

HBCO: In that case you may die sir.

Boy: You are freaking me out now... are you a technical person dammit??

HBCO: No sir, I am not.

Boy: Then why the hell are you giving me such nonsense solutions??

HBCO: Sorry sir, but this is what we ask everyone to do for any kind of problems and it works most of the time sir...

Boy: I am already pissed of enough ok... I just no more want to talk to you, please connect me directly to God... it is very urgent...

HBCO: Sorry sir, but all the Gods are currently busy in handling other critical cases sir.

Boy: Don’t tell me this ok... and what do you mean by all the Gods??

HBCO: Means all the Gods sir... like, Allah, Jesus, all 33 crores of Hindu Gods and all sir.

Boy: So there are so many Gods working for Human Beings and you are telling me no one is free... ha... how is that possible??

HBCO: Yes sir, actually these days ‘the heart breaking’ rate has increased a lot sir... as per the latest statistics around more than 10 crore 'heart breaks' are happening on earth per minute sir and everybody complains to God, so it has increased the work load for all the Gods sir. Actually sir because of this workload recently even Hanumanji has also been trained to handle these cases sir, though he is a BALBRAMHACHARI...!!

Boy: hey, hey... I am not at all interested in these statistics ok... and I don’t care about the world. I just want my problem solved... and for that I have to talk to God... ok??

HBCO: Ok sir... I will mark your case as critical and will transfer the call as soon as any of the Gods is free. Till then please listen to this melodious song sir... 

(song starts... “And i feel so loooonely yea.. There’s a better plece than this emptiness.. yei yei yei ya…. And i’m so loooonely yea.. There’s a better place than this emptiness.. yei yei yei ya…” and the guy becomes more sentimental by listening to this song but he has no choice but to listen to. Finally after 2.45 mins of wait The God is online... )

God: what is your concern my child?

Boy: Hey, hi God... actually God I am very much upset about the way you have designed me.

God: Why what is wrong my son?

Boy: God, why have you fit in such a part in my body which is actually not in my own control??

God: what is it son?

Boy: I am talking about this my bloody heart God. This bastard did not listen to me and fell in love with that girl... and then I expressed my feelings to her... did I do anything wrong by doing so God??

God: No my child, you didn’t do anything wrong. In fact, expressing your feelings without hearting the other person is always a good thing to do.

Boy: Then now when she said it is not going to work out, why all these damn feelings hurting me a lot God, though I didn’t do anything wrong??

God: See my son, these things happen with everyone and you are not alone. Just the thing is that, someone expresses it someone does not... someone gives importance and takes it seriously and someone does not. Please don’t tell anyone, but even I am not spared from this... then for you it is very obvious...

Boy: Ohh God, you too haan... tell me, tell me who was that person in your case???

God: Hey (with little strong voice), let’s focus on your case ok??

Boy:: Oops... sorry God, ok so what to do with this pain??

God: Let me explain, I have attached these 5 senses with your body so that your mind can control it using these senses. Sometimes certain sensations generated by these senses leads to some kind of feelings. Now these feelings are nothing but kind of a 6^th sense. So its purpose is also the same... for your mind to use it to control yourself... ok... is it making sense to you..??

Boy: hummm... ya ya... I mean yes. But I am finding it too much complicated God... :(

God: Let me make it simple... For your mind to rule and use all these senses in order to control your body, it has to be strong and sturdy enough... and if it is not, then you become mentally weak and then all these senses starts ruling and controlling your mind instead. Now this is when a person becomes addicted to different things. We call something as addiction when your mind knows that it is not good for you but still you do it... because your mind is now in control of those senses. In your case my son, those certain feelings are ruling your mind though you know, it is not good for yourself and as a result you are suffering... you got it now my child?

Boy: Ohh... yes God, now it is making lots of sense to me... though I have one more question...

God: Ohh Man (in a hurry)... ok go ahead...

Boy: see I mean why don’t you change the feelings of other person so that she will say ‘Yes’ to me and all my problems will just vanish... simple... right?

God: Ha hahaha... see first of all it is not even in my control to change someone’s feelings, you know. My job is to fit in all these parts like- heart, brain, senses and all in the person’s body, then to brief the functioning, purpose of each of these parts and also to incorporate your body with self learning mechanism. Now after this, how a person uses these parts, correctly or incorrectly... it is completely in his hands... so I can’t change someone’s feelings and all... ok??

Boy: (after a big pause...) hummmm :(

God: (with more convincing tone...) And see, even if I do this, just imagine... even then only for time being you will feel like your problem is solved. But then again over the period you will start suffering from some other addictions... and you will once again start cursing me... and this is what is happening with many people these days. You people just don’t follow the guidelines while using different parts, specially heart... and when it starts hurting you... you start screwing me up asking ‘why have you fitted a part which is not in my control’ and all... come on guys, give me a break... everything is in your control man...!! (in a frustrating tone)

Boy: Ohh... ok ok... I mean, now I got it God... (with little determined tone) So now I will have to make my mind strong and sturdy enough to rule and use these damn senses to control myself. These bloody feelings have ruled me enough now... ya right... (after little pause) but then I have one more question God...

God: Ohhh come on... you are driving me nuts now...

Boy: God please, this one is last one please...

God: (with helpless tone) ok be quick..

Boy: but what should I do by achieving this self-control by ruling my senses and all... I mean where to go and why...

God: Set some goal for your life... goal which is big enough and keep striving with all your might until you achieve it, so that in future whenever that person crosses way with you, then she should feel very privileged for deserving your love... and this is how you win in the game of love...!!

Boy: Ohh this is awesome... I mean I just loved it God... wow... why I couldn’t think about it... this is just superb..!!

God: So now since you got it... will you please do me a favour?

Boy: Anything for you God... just tell me...

God: (smiles) See, today thousands and crores of people out there are suffering from exactly same things and all of them sooner or later are going to bother me and I have so many other more important and critical things to do. Now since you have understood this philosophy, why don’t you make people around you as well understand it? This way they will get quick solution there itself and it will also allow me enough time to focus on more important and critical things, you know...!!

Boy: Ohh sure God... don’t worry, I will definitely help you in this the best way I can... so just chill, ok... And by the way God, who was that lady dealing with me before you coming on the call??

God: Oh that one... (with little hesitation) see son we had a big resource crunch here. So I consulted YAMA about this and he told me that he has many ATMAS from Earth who were working in 'Call Centers' when they were alive. So he suggested me to employ those ATMAS for this job as they were already trained... and we recruited them... so it was one of such ATMA who was dealing with you.

Boy: Oohhh.. ok... (with sarcastic smile) now I understood why she was asking me to restart my heart to solve problems related to it... And hey God, you sound very tired and exhausted you know... so why don’t you go for vacation... come down to Goa, it’s a very nice place in India and very cheap as well. Do let me know if you plan so... will chill together... :) :) 

God: Ha hahaha... ohh thanks my son, I will definitely think about it... :)

Boy: Bye the way, hey God... thank you very much for guiding me through this crap. You are my best friend ever... love you God..!!

God: My pleasure... love you too son, have fun... bye..!!

Boy: bye bye God.. 

(call ends... and the boy looks a bit relaxed... but only to get more confused and helpless the next day... and this is what he utters to himself...)

Boy: (to himself) Dear God, I have understood what you told me. But then I am not a superman to be able to change myself immediately... and also you see, these feelings is the only gift I have got from her, so what if it hurts... it is the only company I have got in this loneliness... I want to cherish it at least until I completely understand what this so called damn ‘Love’ is all about...!!

                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The End ~~~~~~~~~~~~

कागदाची नाव

This is a poem composed (10-March, 2010) on the theme of 'Terrorist Bomb Blasts' happening all over the world. It explains how difficult for all of us to set the life and how easy for unknown to destroy it.. And bomb can't distinguish the people based on Religion, Cast, Cult, etc. so it kills everyone around without any discrimination...
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अनोळखी ती दोनं
उनाडं कारटि
रद्दितले कागदं
घेऊन बसली ओढ्याकाठी

नाव करून एकानं
ओढ्यात सोडली
तरंगून जरावेळ
पाण्यात ती न्हालि

किती नावा बुडाल्या
किती प्रयोग करूनं
तेंव्हा नाव बनवली
दोन कागदं जोडूनं

ही नाव तर आता
कशी डौलात चालली
ओढ्याच्या प्रवाहाला
छान सांगतं मिळाली

अश्या असंख्य नावांचा
जणू ताफाच सजला
भगवा, निळा, हिरवा रंग
त्यांचा शोभुनं दिसला

चमकलि कारटि
गेली अनन्दुन
धावाया लागली
ताफ्याच्या संगतीनं

तेवढ्यात धडाम् कसला
आवाजं तो झाला
नावांच्या ताफ्यावर
कुणी दगडं मारला

भगव्या-हिरव्या काही नौका
गेल्यात बुडूनं
घराकडे काळा धूर
दिसला दुरूनं

कारट्यान्चा खेळ हा
इथेचं मोडला
उनाडं जीव त्यांचा
घराकडे धावला

दोघांचीही घरं
कशी उध्वस्त झाली
उनाडं ती कारटि
कुणी अनाथ ही केली

दोघं एकमेका गळी
पडूनं रडली
नशीबाच्या अंधारात
त्यांच्या रात्र काळोखली

सूर्योदय होता दोघं
ओढ्याकाठी दिसली 
"ये सन्त्या अन् सल्म्या"
कुणी हाकं ती मारली

बधीरले कानं, नजरा
ओढ्यातली स्थिरल्या
भगव्या-हिरव्या नौका
कशा लालबुंद झाल्या

हरवले रंग सारे
हरवले जाती
अनोळखी ती दोनं
उनाडं कारटि

अनोळखी ती दोनं
उनाडं कारटि...

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वाटलंच कधी तुला तर

Completely based on imagination and observations..!!

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कळतात मला तुझ्या अडचणी
नि बहाने ही कळतात मला
हा एवढा का मागे लागलाय?
कळतो हा प्रश्न ही तुला पडलेला

पण बोलतच नाहीस माझ्याशी कधी
तुला उत्तरे तरी कशी सांगू
जर भेटतच नाहीस मला कधी
स्वत:ला शब्दांत तरी कुठवर मांडू

वाटलंच कधी तुला तर
कुणाला तरी आवडून बघ
दिलेल्या वेळेवर भेटण्यासाठी
कामाची आवरा-आवर करून बघ
शेवटी तो भेटनारच नाही कळल्यावर
तुला काय वाटतं ते जाणून बघ

वाटलंच कधी तुला तर
त्याला तू मेसेज करून बघ
त्या मेसेजच्या रिप्लाय साठी
तासन्तास वाट पाहून बघ
नि वाट पाहून जेंव्हा दिवस संपतो
तेंव्हा काय वाटतं ते जाणून बघ

वाटलंच कधी तुला तर 
हे सार मला कधी सांगून बघ
मी असा का वागतो
स्वत:लाच कधी विचारून बघ
खुळ्यागत जरी वाटत असलो
मलाही एकदा समजून बघ

वाटलंच कधी तुला तर 
मलाही साद देऊन बघ
मी फसवा आहे की खराखुरा
एकदा तर आजमाऊन बघ
एक प्रयोग म्हणून का होईना
एकदा माझी होऊन बघ

वाटलंच कधी तुला तर... 

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Introducing Myself...

I really don’t know if you are at all interested to read this post but I am still writing it only to introduce myself… but before I talk about ‘who am I’, let me clarify ‘who am I not’.

I am not a liar and a fake person.. so you can trust the below given information.. But I am even not a very great soul not to ever lie.. so I do lie sometimes but that is only for the welfare of everyone around and sometime for the aid of humor. I am not extremely generous but not even very selfish.. I do remain faire to everyone whenever I behave like selfish. As no one is perfect, there will be some negatives with me as well and that is the reason I need friend like you to tell me what are those.. so that I can at least attempt to improve myself.

So, I am Sandip Wankhade, born at Dahisawali, Yeotmal district, Maharashtra, in a middle class family. I completed my schooling from the same village and then from nearby town. Hereafter started living away from home in hostel and completed my 11th, 12th from PN Collage, Pusad and Engineering from GCOE, Amravati. I got placed in Geometric through college campus recruitment during 3rd year.

I joined this company in Sept, 2006 in Mumbai and then got shifted to Pune branch after 5 months. This is when my real professional life started. Since then I am working for the same company and so far it has given me good growth, work and international exposure. Today I am working as a Technical Lead and so far been to USA, Italy, South Korea and Canada. I am in the process of getting settled in India-Pune. As a first step had bought 2BHK Flat in Wakad (just 10 mins away from my office ;) ) and now booking Maruti Ertiga.

Apart from this, I think I am a go getting & ambitious guy with good IQ & sense of humor and one who go by the ground level realities. I love to be fit and to take exercise. In the leisure time I pursue my hobbies of reading, writing, poetry & blogging... I have written many poems & articles few of which are published on my blog. My long term career goal is to become an entrepreneur and start my own business.. I have already started preparing for the same.

I love my people and country and want to contribute towards it’s betterment. But I know by being an employed person it is difficult to have enough time, power and money to make some long lasting positive difference. This is the reason I have passion for business.. so I want to be a businessman not to earn lots of money and to lead a lavish life but to be able to help my people and country.

My philosophy of life is, “it is a game which sometimes turns into a war… so I prefer to enjoy it always, at the same time I become brave and courageous as required, to fight”

Achievements & Honors:

Academic

1.  2^nd Prize in National Level ‘Contraption’ at VNIT Nagpur

2.  Consolation Prize in State Level ‘Technical Paper Presentation’ at GCOE Amravati

3.  Participated in ‘Tech Fest 2005’ at IIT Bombay

4.  1st prize in ‘Contraption’ organized by ISTE

Professional

1.  Was recognized as a 3DPLM’s ‘Star Performer’ of the year 2008-2009

2.  Was recognized as a 3DPLM’s ‘Star Performer’ of the year 2009-2010

3.  Won 2^nd prize in 3DPLM Innovation contest for developing (with a colleague developer) a ‘Static code analysis’ tool to find out the ‘Internationalization’ (i18n) issues in the entire MatrixOne code base

o    It is has become the part of standard R&D process @ both 3DPLM and DS 

o    This tool has already found & reported many i18n issues

4.  Was awarded with following awards

o    Kudos

o    Champ

o    Special Appreciation

My Site: http://manthanfor.blogspot.in/       

My most read post: http://manthanfor.blogspot.in/2011/06/risk-taking-factor.html   

After reading all this, you might think I am a fool.. but it is ok, because I already know that… ;) and I am happy to have smart friend like you…!!

Hope this will make you comfortable to talk to me and to be my friend.

Thank you for visiting my profile... I request you to give your comment using the below ‘Post a Comment’ link..!!

The book in your eye

Composed on 17th June, 2012 (It is my very first attempt to compose a poem in English)

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If you remember the day
when I saw you the first time
and you looked at me, no glanced at me
from the corner of your eye
I could see then, feel then
oh baby, the book in your eye

After this moment
I lost my dreams, lost my sleep
and started looking for you
on every other street
after this moment, don’t know why
wanted to read, wanted to learn
the book in your eye

For seeing you then
I started to pray
after all my try
when you crossed my way
you stared at me
Though with the look of
who is this guy?
but I could read then
the dreams of you, the hopes of you
written in the book in your eye

Hey, now for ever
I want to be with you
I won’t ever let you feel
and let the tears come to you
I don’t care what others think
and what they cry
but I want to keep reading
for whole of my life
oh baby, the book in your eye

If you remember the day
when I saw you the first time
and you looked at me, no glanced at me
from the corner of your eye
I could see then, feel then
oh baby, the book in your eye

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कल्पना भावी संसाराची

Composed on 18th Apr, 2010

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तू भेटायच्या आधीच
तुझ्याशी बोलावस वाटतय
आपल्या भावी संसाराचं तुझं स्वप्नं
ऐकावस वाटतय

काय म्हणतेस..., मीच सुरूवात करू
तू नंतर सांगशील
आतुरलेल्या कानांनी तुझ्या
निमुत सारं ऐकशिल...

" संसार नं खरच कसा
संतुलित असावा

एकमेकात गुंतताना
व्यक्तिस्वातन्त्र्य जपणारा
दोघांच्या इतिहासा जाणून
एकाच भविष्याकडे बघणारा

त्यात कष्टाची आच असावी
कधी निवान्ततेचा गारवा
तापलेल्या भुइवरी जसा
मेघ वर्षावावा

त्यात प्रेमाची साद असावी
नको बढाइचा नगारा
आप्तान्ची असावी शिग त्यास
त्यांच्या मायेचा पुकारा

गुणांची करावी नवलाइ त्याने
आवगुनांचा तिटकारा
आळसाशि लढावी लढाई
यावा उल्हासास उमाळा

धीर धरून वागण्याची
ताकद त्याने द्यावी
नव्या पिढीला जगण्याची 
ही रीत शिकवावी

एकमेकानपेक्षा आपला जीव
ह्या संसारात रमावा
साथ कधी सुटली तरी
संसार ना तुटावा

साथ कधी सुटली तरी
संसार ना तुटावा "

असाच काहीसा असेल बघ
आपला तो संसार

खरं सांगू...

तुझ्याही पेक्षा नकळत मी
आपल्या ह्या संसाराच्या कल्पनेवरच
जास्तं प्रेम करायला लागलोय...!!

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तुझ्या अपेक्षा

One of my older compositions (composed on 21st Feb, 2010)

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ऐकत नव्हतं मन माझं
बघितलं कितीही सांगून
सारखं सारखं बघत होतं
तुझीच चित्रं रंगवून

विचार आला तेंव्हा तुझा
म्हणाला माझ्याकडे पाहून
रोज स्वप्नि बघतोस जिला ती
तुझ्यावर भाळेल तरी का म्हणून

निशब्द झालो मी
नि गेले विचार सारे थकून
शोधून न सापडले उत्तर
गेले प्रश्न हे लज्जीत करून

गुंतून स्वतःत स्वपेक्षान्चि
यादी मी बनवत होतो
धुंदीत ह्या अपेक्षान्चा तुझ्या
विचार करायाचच विसरत होतो

जगून बघेन आता तुझ्याही
अपेक्षान्चा विचार करून
जेंव्हा भेटशिल तेंव्हा तुला
माझा अभिमान वाटावा म्हणून

तुला आवडेल ती प्रत्येक गोष्ट
बघेन स्वतःत आणून
हात धरून चालतांना माझा
तुला जगाचा विसर पडावा म्हणून

नि जेंव्हा भेटशिल तेंव्हा तुला
माझा अभिमान वाटावा म्हणून..

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हरवलेला 'स्व'

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बालपणी हुंदडलेल्या रस्त्यांवरून
पुन्हा एकदा चालतांना
तेंव्हा खेळलेल्या काच्यांचा
पुन्हा आवाज ऐकताना
शिकलेल्या त्या शाळेकडे
पुन्हा जवळून पाहतांना

ती हाक कानी येते...
'कुठे आहेस तू..??'

घरानजिकच्या चौकामधल्या
जुन्या झाडाकडे बाघकातांना
तेंव्हा आम्हाला गोष्टी सांगणारे
ते आजोबा मला दिसतांना
त्यांनाच स्वत:ची ओळख
पुन्हा करून देतांना

ती हाक कानी येते...
'कुठे आहेस तू..??'

आजही वर्तमानाशी
झुंजत जगतांना
आजही भविष्यामधे
दूर कोठे बघतांना
आजही ती क्षितिजे
दूरच दूर दिसतांना

ती हाक कानी येते...
'कुठे आहेस तू..??'

खरच कुठे आहेस तू..??

वेड्यावाकड्या रस्त्यांच्या
ह्या जाळ्यात हरपलास?
की जीवनाच्या या जटील
चक्रव्यूहात अडकलास?
रुष्ठ या नशीबाच्या
आचेखाली करपलास?

की मेहेनत करतांना गाळलेल्या
घामासोबत झीरपलास?

अस्याच कित्येक प्रश्नांचा
उगाच गोंधळ होतांना
सततच्या ह्या गोंधळात
कान बधिर होऊ बघतांना

पुन्हा ती हाक कानी येते...
'कुठे आहेस तू..??'

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हो मी येतोय...

This poem was written when I was on the way to home from college hostel... to tell my mother that I am comming... :)

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शब्दांची ही माळ
मोठ्या उल्हासाने गुंफतोय
याच कारणास्तव तिला
अर्त भावनांनी सजवतोय

सांगायचेय आईला
की मी येतोय

भावनांच्या तुलनी
शब्द जणू पांगळे
व्याकुळता न व्यतिती
जरी कसेही रचीले

परी कळेल त्या आईला भाव
तिच्या पाडसाच्या मनितले

हो मी येतोय
तुझ्या चरण स्पर्शासाठि
तुझ्या प्रेमळ हातांना
माझ्या गाली लावण्यासाठी

कुशीत तुझ्या डोके ठेऊन
सर्व जगाला विसरण्यासाठी

सर्वांना सांगून ठेव
चांगले पदार्थ बनवून ठेव
नि या वेड्याला सहण्यासाठी
थोडी सवड काढून ठेव

कारण खरच मी येतोय
तिथल्या मातीच्या सुगंधासाठी
अंधुकलेल्या माझ्या पाउलखुन्नाना
पुन्हा एकदा उजळवण्यासाठी

नि मी येतोय तो पुन्हा तुझा
अवान्छित निरोप घेण्यासाठी

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बहोत खूबसूरत हो क्यों

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बहोत खूबसूरत हो क्यों
तुम बहोत खूबसूरत हो क्यों

अगर मैं जो केहेदु शिकायत है तुमसे
तो मुझको खुदारा ग़लत मत समज़ना
के मेरी ज़रूरत हो क्यों
बहोत खूबसूरत हो क्यों

मैं देखु जो तुज़को दुरसे जब भी छुपकर
रहे जाता हूँ तेरी अदाओं मे खोकर
नज़दीकियों से जब के डरता बहोत हूँ
नज़रो से तेरी छुपता बहोत हूँ
भूलसे भी जो नज़रे मिलाती हो हमसे
या कोई इशारा सा करती हो हमसे
धड़कने तेज होती है क्यों

बहोत खूबसूरत हो क्यों

कभी दूसरो की उमिंदो का दड़पन
कभी उँचे सपनो से मिलता ख़ालीपन
जिंदगी की रविश मे मशरूफ हूँ जब
इसी सोच मे बेरुख हूँ तब
सामने तुम कुछ आती हो ऐसे
सारी बातें ना जाने भूल जाता हूँ कैसे
ऐसी आफ़तसी लाती हो क्यों

बहोत खूबसूरत हो क्यों

चाहत मे तेरी सोचु नज़म मैं लिखदु
तेरे नूर को क़ैद कर के मैं रखदु
पढ़ लो कभी जो इससे जल जाओ
खुदसे भी ज्यादा हँसी इसको पाओ
पर लिखना जो चाहूं वो लिखही ना पाउ
सोचु जो तुज़को, सोचता ही रहे जाउ
ऐसी बेदर्द बनती हो क्यों

बहोत खूबसूरत हो क्यों

अगर मैं जो केहेदु शिकायत है तुमसे
तो मुझको खुदारा ग़लत मत समज़ना
के मेरी ज़रूरत हो क्यों
बहोत खूबसूरत हो क्यों
तुम बहोत खूबसूरत हो क्यों

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Anti-Corruption movement – A beginning of Revolution

I am one of those educated, net-savvy and very curious youth of India who does not believe in things just because it is told or said by some eminent personality, rather who prefers to hunt through hundreds of resources that are available to validate the truthfulness and ethicality of the same. And only after this verification, who tries to build their opinions based on so called common sense. With this background, when I look at the ‘Anti-corruption movement’ led by Shri Anna Hajare, when I look at the response to it by ‘Common Man’ across the nation and by the government, then only one word comes to my mind and that is ‘Revolution’. In the very next moment I hit the Wikipedia which gives me below elaboration and definition of this word called ‘Revolution’ –

A 'Revolution' is - A fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. It can be of below two types -
   I.  Complete change from one constitution to another
  ii.  Modification of an existing constitution.
                                                       OR
Any and all instances in which a state or a political regime is overthrown and thereby transformed by a popular movement in an irregular, extra-constitutional and/or violent fashion.

Revolutions have occurred through human history and vary widely in terms of methods, duration and motivating ideology. Their results include major changes in culture, economy, and socio-political institutions. And the right of revolution is the right or duty of the people of a nation to overthrow a government that acts against their common interests.

To me, the above briefing on Revolution (socio-political) clearly indicates that, it occurs when – The state authority (government) uses the constitutional rights in their own interests and not in the interest of common man of the state (nation). There can be several reasons for such situation to arise, as outdated system, ill moral of the majority of people in the authority and lack of capable leadership. But it starts developing a negative sentiment amongst the common man against the authority. Such sentiment takes time to grow/spread and intensify (based on different factors) and often allows enough time for authority to change. But when the authority refuses to change, then this well spread and intensified negative sentiment takes the form of a state wide movement which in turn overthrows the state authority by means of, may be an irregular, extra-constitutional and/or violent fashion which later history terms as a ‘Revolution’. And the side-effects of such revolution depends on the factors like- nature of the movement (violent/non-violent), number of people involved, involvement of different sections, religions, cults of society, etc.

                 In this context when I look at our nation, it got its own constitution after a prolonged fight of freedom and after sacrificing countless lives. Since then many governments ruled the nation under different leaderships. I really don’t know exactly from what time the problems like corruption, misuse of constitutional rights to disguise people and inefficiency of authority towards its duties has started becoming prominent. But maybe these were very rare in the initial days of freedom, may be because those people in authority knew the real cost of freedom, they were well bound with moral and ethical obligations, the constitution was well suited for those times. And over the period people started to get the freedom for free (like we have got), all the values and obligations towards society/nation started to get diluted thereby leading to such problems. Or maybe these issues were there since long back but the so called ‘Janata’ was not alert, awake to notice them. Irrespective of all these guesses, the fact is the common man has been suffering from all these issues since so long and the current government has broken all the records in regards to especially corruption. Moreover it has shown great inefficiency in taking actions against until it was forced by the Supreme Court, by the opposition party and by the Janata.

                  Every movement needs a leader to start it, a leader with all those five qualities which Anna talks about. Thanks to Anna and his team for providing such an able and trustworthy leadership. This movement, like any other movement is being looked at differently by different people. When lacs are seen very optimistic and are providing full support by coming to streets, few are very apathetic and some are strongly opposing the movement. When I interact with people with very neutral and apathetic view, I get to here following argument that they have – “If the ‘Jan Lokpal Bill’ gets implemented then what is the guaranty that corruption will stop? Or what is the guaranty that the people from the Lokpal body won’t get corrupt?” And the other group of people (mostly from or supporting government) opposing the movement has many different arguments. First of all government is trying best by means of treachery and coercion to suppress any effort made towards starting any such movement, as it is seen from the kind of action that was taken against Ramdev Baba and even with Shri Anna Hajare this time. And whoever tries to raise voice, the government adopts very resentful way and starts investigations against that person to find at least something which can defame him/her. Government makes one more argument against such movements calling it as non-constitutional.

                  But when I do my own investigations by listening to different leaders from the movement, from the government and from the outside; by reading through different news-papers and browsing through different sites and when I apply my own thoughts to all the findings based on common sense, this is how I see all the above arguments/opinions/actions against the movement as baseless, anti-democratic and against human beings very right of revolution – Yes, no one can guarantee that the ‘Jan Lokpal Bill’ if implemented, will check the corruption completely; but if we read through the draft or listen to the explanation given by one of the leaders from the movement like Mr. Kejriwal, then we can clearly see that it will check the corruption at least up to sixty percent. And it is very obvious for me to understand that getting a strongest possible lokpal bill in place is a very first and important step. Once it is through then it won’t be difficult to amend it further to make it more robust and flawless. If the Jan Lokpal bill is put in place then it will act against all the corrupt people and not only against a specific group of people. But whenever someone tries to start the movement against corruption, every time government tries to malign that person’s image in a way or other simply to mislead people and disrupt the movement. If someone himself is corrupt and still wants to have such a strong system in place, this clearly means to me that he/she is ready to face it. Hence I will definitely stand behind such person as the motive, that the person is now fighting for is in the interest of common man and is very divine. When someone calls this movement as non-constitutional, then very first question comes to my mind is “Whether people are for constitution or constitution for people?” I think it is “constitution for people”. Then people have every right to amend or change the constitution whenever they feel it is required. When government is seen unwilling to bring in such change and when people loses faith in the government and political leadership, then the only option left with them to bring in such change is through the public movement and hence there is no question of calling such movement as non-constitutional.

                  I am one of those India’s common man who is not yet corrupt, who suffers from corruption every now and then, when I seek admission to schools/colleges, when I seek job, when I seek some legal documents from government offices and the list is real big. There are many such problems like corruption, we the common man are suffering from and with all these sufferings we are not living but struggling to live. When we realize this fact, then we tend to accept the situation by simply saying “India ka kuch nahi ho sakta”. But I believe this is the time when we have a chance to change this mind set, this is a time when we can learn to live. Now let’s say it is enough and let’s unite to support this noble movement without discriminating ourselves on the basis of region, religion, cast, party. The very important role that we educated crowed have to play is to make those aware who are unaware of the movement. Let’s educate our families, friends, and neighbors and make them also support and participate in the movement. If we succeed this time to implement this common will of the common man through the means of this non-violent movement, then we defiantly can bring in every such good change that every common man dreams of. Hence I find this movement as a start of a “Revolution” and I feel very lucky to be part of and to witness the same. Don’t you also feel the same…??

ऐ जमाने वालो

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ना वो आँधी ना ये तुफ़ा
ना वो ज्वार ना ही ये सूखा
हमे कभी रुला सके
अब तुम भी ना ऐसी कोशिश करना
ऐ जमाने वालो
क्यों की जब भी हम रोते है
कुछ तो बदल ज़रूर देते है

ना ये जख्म ना वो घाव
नाही वो मन मे उठता तनाव
हमे कभी तड़पा सके
अब तुम भी ना हमे तड़पाना
ऐ जमाने वालो
क्यों की जब भी हम तड़पते है
कुछ तो बदल ज़रूर देते है

कभी शांति तो कभी विनाश
कभी गाँधी तो कभी सुभाष
हम किसकी राह चुनेंगे
ये परखने की भूल ना करना
क्यों की जब भी, जैसे भी हम लढते है
कुछ तो बदल ज़रूर देते है

ना वो फलक ना ये धरा
और नाही ये सागर सारा
तुम्हे भागने के लिए काफ़ी होगा
अब हमे ना सरफ़रोश बना देना
क्यों की जब भी हम सरफ़रोश बनते है
तो बहोत कुछ बदल ज़रूर देते है

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एहेसास एक बूँद सा

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तुम्हारा ये एहेसास
जैसे बारिश की एक बूँद
बादलों से छुटकर
ज़मीं को चिढाती
हरे पत्ते पर
लटकती हुई

देखकर इसे
हवा भी थम जाए
छूकर जिसे
किरणों को पहचान मिल जाए
ऐसी ही एक बूँद
हरे पत्ते पर
लटकती हुई

  ये तुम्हारा एहेसास
एक बूँद ही तो है
यादों से निकलकर
मुझे चिढ़ाती
मेरे दिल के पत्ते पर
लटकती हुई

देखकर जिसे
समय भी थम जाए
पाकर जिसे
मुझे पहचान मिल जाए
ऐसी ही एक बूँद
मेरे दिल के पत्ते पर
लटकती हुई

सोचता हूँ कभी
दूर कही चला जाउ
तुम्हारे एहेसासों की दुनिया में
चारों और जहाँ
बूंदे ही बूंदे हो बारिश की
हरे पत्तों पर
लटकती हुई ...

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मैं भारत का नवयुवक (composed on: 10th Aug 2010)

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मैं भारत का नवयुवक
रोज सबेरे उठता हूँ
सारे सपने घरपर छोड़
कामकाज को निकलता हूँ

रोजवाली उसी राह के
उसी खड्डे से गुज़रता हूँ
भीड़भाड़ से ऑफीस पोहोच
दिनभर महेनत करता हूँ

शाम को घरपर छोड़ने वाली
उसी बस में चढ़ता हूँ
फिरसे उसी खड्डे से होकर
अपने घर पोहोचता हूँ

मैं भारत का नवयुवक
कभी धमाके सुनता हूँ
दो आँसू बहता हूँ
जब इनमें अपनो को खोता हूँ

मेरा देश चलाने वालों के
भ्रष्टाचार को सहेता हूँ
विधान भवन में चलाने वाली
चप्पले भी देखता हूँ

इन सबसे होने वाले
दर्द से पीड़ित होता हूँ
इसी पीड़ा को मन मे लिए
किसी रात को सोता हूँ

मैं भारत का नवयुवक
अगली सुबह उठता हूँ
सारी पीड़ा घरपर छोड़
कामकाज को निकलता हूँ

रोजवाली उसी राह के
उसी खड्डे से गुज़रता हूँ
भीड़भाड़ से ऑफीस पोहोच
दिनभर महेनत करता हूँ

शाम को घरपर आते आते
फिरसे सबकुछ भूलता हूँ
इसी रात को सोने पर
नये सपने देखता हूँ

मैं भारत का नवयुवक
अब एक सबेरे जगूंगा
जातीधर्म की भिन्नताओं मे
मैं खुदको ना बाटुंगा

मैं 'भारतीय' यही एक
अपनी पहेचान बताउंगा
पीड़ाजनक हर घटना के खिलाफ
अब 'एक आवाज़' उठाउंगा

मैं राष्ट्र का नवयुवक
अब एक सबेरे जगूँगा ...

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महेज एक ख़याल (Composed on: 24th Jan 2010)

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तुम कभी दिल मे मेरे
एक ख़याल बनकर आती हो
मुझे खुदसे ही बहोत
दूर कही ले जाती हो

अंजान खुदसे मैं
तुम्हे देखता रहे जाता हूँ
और आँखो मे मुझे बसा
तुम पलके झुका लेती हो

इन ख़यालो से निकल जब
मुझे अपना एहेसास होता है
पाकर दूर तुम्हे ख़ुदसे
बड़ा बेचैनसा लगता है

इसी तनहाई मे किसी को देख
यू लगता है के तुम हो
इसी तनहाई मे किसी की आहट सुन
यू लगता है के तुम हो

फिर छुपकर कही दुरसे
उसे देखता रहेता हूँ
उसे देखने वाली हर नज़र से
खूब जला करता हूँ

इतना हसी पाकर उसे
ख़ुदसे ही डरने लगता हूँ
क्या भाऊंगा मैं उसको भी
यही सोचकर रहेता हूँ

अब मेरी यहा हालत देख
तुम बहोत हसने लगती हो
फिर से कभी दिल मे मेरे
जब ख़याल बनकर आती हो

फिर मेरा हात थामकर
दूर कही ले जाती हो
तुम कभी दिल मे मेरे
एक ख़याल बनकर आती हो ...

तुम कभी दिल मे मेरे
एक ख़याल बनकर आती हो ...

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गत-क्षणांच्या सभेत (Composed on: 5th March 2005)

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माझ्या मनमंचावर बरेचदा
गत-क्षणांच्या सभा होतात
प्रत्येक वेळी ते मात्र
माझ्या विषयीच बोलत असतात

अश्याच एका क्षणांच्या सभेत
मीही चोरून उपस्थित होतो
स्वतःपुरत माझ्याविषयी बोलणार्‍या
प्रत्येक क्षणाला ऐकत होतो

प्रत्येक क्षण आपआपला 'मी'
निकषाने मांडायचा
तो किती योग्य नि बरोबर
हे सर्वांना सांगायचा

प्रत्येक क्षण बोलून झाला
की मी स्वतःवरच हसायचो
ह्यांच्याच साठी का जगतोय आपण
अस स्वतःलाच विचारायचो

असा त्या क्षणांवर हसणारा 'मी'
मी कधी ओळखलाच नाही
उपस्थित असलेला मी तिथे
त्या क्षणांनाही दिसलाच नाही

जगतोय मी ज्यासाठी तो
क्षण तर तेथे भेटलाच नाही
आजवर जगलेल्या आयुष्याला मग
अर्थ तरी उरला काही

परी येणार्‍या प्रत्येक क्षणामधून
तो श्रेष्ठ क्षण घडवायचा आहे
नि मनमंचावरील गत-क्षणांच्या सभेत
एकदा पुन्हा उपस्थित राहायच आहे

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Reading Between the Lines: 

It is in the lonely times when all the past memories (moments) come to his mind and starts boasting about themselves explaining why they were important in his life. At the end when every moment is done boasting he thinks, "are these the moments that I am living for?" And realizes that the moment for which he wants to live is yet to happen to him. That is when he decides to make every future moment so special that, by living in which he should feel like he has lived the entire life in real sense...!!

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जिंदगी की कशमकश में

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जिंदगी की कशमकश में 
उलझकर इतना रहे गए
तुमने दिलपर दी दस्तक मगर
हम दिल लगाना भुल गए

कभी गहरे ख्वाबो में
तो कभी ऊँचे इरादों में
कभी ठगती परछाइयों में
तो कभी थकाती जिम्मेदारियों में
हम व्यस्त इतना रहे गए
मिलना था कभी तुमसे मगर
हम फुरसत निकालना भुल गए

कभी उन शर्मोहयाओने
तो कभी सिसकती आहों ने
कभी अनजान फासलों ने
तो कभी कमजोर इरादों ने
हमें इस कदर बांधे रखा
तुमने मिलाई जो नजर हमसे
तेरी आँखों में देखना भुल गए

अब हमें ना कोई हैरत होगी
गर हमसे तुम्हे शिकायत है
हमें ना कोई गैरत होगी
गर तुमसे ना मोहब्बत करने की इजाजत है
हम तो जुर्म ही ऐसा कर बैठे
तुमने तो की हर कोशिश मगर
तुम्हे समझना हम भुल गए

जिंदगी की कशमकाश में
उलझकर इतना रहे गए
तुमने दिलपर दी दस्तक मगर
हम दिल लगाना भुल गए

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A Risk Taking Factor

Few days back I was talking to one of my friends who runs his own business. The discussion was about the concern I had for the risk involved in one of the decisions that was made. And below thought is what I could take away as learning from this discussion –

“Every self-controlled person must take a calculated risk in their life.” This thought gives rise to galore of questions, as to what is mean by ‘Self-Controlled Person’?  How to determine the ‘Calculated Risk’ and why one should take it?

            ‘Risk’ is when we take up certain task/activity looking at its extraordinary benefits, though we know that there is a possibility of failure in accomplishing it OR its accomplishment might lead to certain adverse side effects. When such a risky task/activity goes other way, then we get exposed to the adverse side of it which puts us under more or less intensity of mental, physical or monetary strain. Now the ‘Calculated Risk’ is when we know in advance the intensity of such a strain and the extent of setback that can be received when such an activity/task doesn’t go as planned.

            Such a calculated risk taking capacity varies person to person, as the potential of fighting against different kinds of strains and stresses is different for every individual. To give an example, a guy with poor self-control, when exposed to such strains might start boozing (instead of fighting back) and get addicted becoming victim to the risk, and will suffer from its worst side effects. Whereas other guy with good self control might plan better against such a risk and might execute it successfully to overcome it, and eventually will only see the best side of it.

            I personally feel that, people who had to struggle hard to raise in their careers carries comparatively better ‘Risk Taking Factor’. When one has to face lots of adverse conditions and hence lots of risks in order to achieve what he/she is looking for, is what I think we call as struggle. And when one struggles, means he gets trained to fight back the different kinds of strains, hence over the period becomes more and more self-controlled. But of course one needs to realize the self ‘Risk Taking Factor’ by introspection, and then go for the ‘Calculated Risks’ to achieve every other intermittent goal. This way one will keep growing more & more tough, knowledgeable and self-controlled to achieve the goal of life, thereby adding more meaning to it!

Following (as shown in the table) can be the different parameters which one should consider for RTF calculation, before taking up any kind of endeavour.  If we consider ‘An Ideal RTF’ as 100%, then I will give the weight-age to each of these parameters as in the table below-

Parameters	Weight-age
Visibility & Assurance of  results	30
Family Dependency	10
Financial Dependency	10
Self Control (tolerance over strains)	20
Ability & Confidence	20
Age	10
Ideal RTF (total)	100

Now to show the approximate calculations, let’s take a specific example of a person whose individual evaluation against each parameter (for an endeavour like- ‘going for higher studies’ or ‘starting a small scale business’) is as given in the column ‘Individual Evaluation’ from the table below. So based on the proportionate calculations, his RTF comes around 76%. In my opinion, having an RTF (for any endeavour/task) more than 70 is a strong indicator that one must go for it.

Parameter	Weight-age	Individual Evaluation	Proportionate RTF
Visibility & Assurance of  results	30	> 70%	21
Family Dependency	10	Medium	6
Financial Dependency	10	Medium	6
Self Control (tolerance over strains)	20	> 90%	18
Ability & Confidence	20	> 80%	16
Age	10	< 40 (yrs)	9
Ideal RTF (total)	100	Individual RTF (approximate)	76

‘Taking Risk’ makes your life more happening & thrilling. Hence all those who love thrill and are courageous enough to lead an adventurous life need not worry about all these calculations. But for those who are very specific & hesitant about taking risks in life, the RTF can be a good indicator for making decision on taking up the calculated risks. And of course the accuracy of RTF indicator is in direct proportion to the accuracy of the aftermath calculations and hence no one else can calculate your individual RTF but you.