November 2011
36 posts
Day 1320
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 29/30 , 2011 Tue/ Wed 12 : 41 AM
You rise early and take flight to Pune for ” English Vinglish ” the film being directed by Gauri, Balki’s wife, where I do a few lines in a barely a minute appearance with Sridevi ! Flights to Pune are short and quick. By the time you fasten your seat belt it is time to take it off...
DAY 1318
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 27 , 2011 Sun 11 : 45 PM
My Father’s birth anniversary to day ! 27th of November 1907 was born to my Grand Father Pratap Narain and his wife my grandmother Sursati, Harivansh. The elders in the house referred to him lovingly as ‘bachcha’ meaning child. When he grew up and inclined himself to poetry and literature, he adopted...
Day 1319
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 28, 2011 Mon 11 : 30 PM
First the ugly and then the not so ugly !
There is news that has come to my knowledge of meetings being arranged after payment of certain sums of money ! The lure of being in a situation to pay up and be around with me, is an appalling condition. To those that may have contributed...
DAY 1317
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 26, 2011 Sat 11 : 48 PM
There are days and there are days ! Today was a day !
As the alarm rings on the mobile – an instrument that has now replaced the wrist watch, the alarm clock and the camera and dictionary and diary and reminder and … , I struggle out of bed, bent at various angles to ease out the L4/L5 spinal...
DAY 1316
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 25, 2011 Fri 11 : 45 PM
A deep yawn before I start to push buttons is not the most welcome sign … at least for a beginning. There is though the argument that ‘even though I yawn, it indicates that I am at least awake’. Yes I am awake. Awake to all that goes around, within and without. Within has that tendency to remain within. Without is...
DAY 1315
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 24 , 2011 Thu 11 : 23 PM
चूहे ने किया शेरनी को propose ,
गिफ्ट दिया उसने रेड rose
शेरनी ने कहा जा पहले अपनी सूरत आइने में देख ,
चूहा बोला सूरत पे मत जा पगली confidence तो देख !!!!
Got this on my mobile among so many other gifts of names for the little one. Little does she know what she has started. She sleeps through most of the day...
DAY 1314
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 23 , 2011 Thu 11 : 50 PM
Purity of the heart, purity of the mind and purity of thought, seldom receive the purity of acceptance. The converse ironically, has always through time, been welcomed. There is, in those, a very dismantled attitude of uncertainty and ill will. And nothing in the world can make one alter its course !
Caught in such a...
DAY 1313
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 22 , 2011 Tue 11 : 41 AM
फुल्ल कमल ,
गोद नवल ,
मोद नवल ,
गेह में विनोद नवल |
नवल दृश्य ,
नवल दृष्टि ,
जीवन का नव भविष्य ,
जीवन की नवल सृष्टि |
She is home ! And nothing could give us all greater joy and happiness .. There is so much to say and so much emotion, but I think excerpts from my Fathers poem, written at the...
DAY 1312
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 21/22, 2011 Mon/Tue 1 : 03 AM
Claims of pictures of the baby and Aishwarya soon after the delivery have been invading the cyber world with a vengence. And the story being told is that a staff member of the Hospital is responsible for it. I had of course denied that any picture had been given out. Indeed yesterday I categorically informed all...
DAY 1311
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 20 , 2011 Sun 11 : 56 PM
A discomforting day !
A day which needs to be examined and perhaps explained, but in doing so shall disturb the minds of many, ruffle feathers, create diversity rather than peace and well being. So best it is to leave, diminish its existence, allow it to dissipate if ever it would.
The inventions of the modern...
DAY 1310
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 19 , 2011 Sat 11 : 29 PM
One abhors the usage of numbers to depict standing and value. But they remain an important and irreplaceable element in our lives. An important element even in the lives of the Ef.
Often there is a fight for the position at the top ; to be the first on the Blog. It is a numbers game. Being at the top of a heap does...
DAY 1309
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 18/19 , 2011 Fri/Sat 1 : 05 AM
ये जो दिन गुज़रते जा रहे हैं , न जाने क्यूँ ऐसा लगता है जैसे कुछ गुज़रता ही नहीं है |
“सुबह होती है श्याम होती है ज़िन्दगी यूँही तमाम होती है”….
अक्सर याद आती है इन शब्दों की वाणी | माँ इन्हें अपने आखरी दिनों में दोहराया करती थीं - न जाने क्यूँ | शायद उन्हें लगता था की उनके पास अब कुछ करने को नहीं है |...
DAY 1308
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 17/18 , 2011 Thu/ Fri 1 : 34 AM
A joy to be able to spend an entire day observing the ‘little one’ … a moment of reflection on the closing of KBC’s last episode for this season … and the feeling of importance on entering a office complex and to observe, that there can still, after 42 years, be a situation when the police will need to be called...
DAY 1307
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 16 , 2011 Wed 11 : 27 PM
The soft innocence of nature rests in my arms, oblivious of what else happens around her. Occasionally she opens her large and what looks now to be eyes of the lighter hue, which those that have dealt with similar, know shall change with time. Often the gentlest of smiles quiver across her pouted upper lip, the...
DAY 1306
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 15 , 2011 Tue 11 : 26 PM
Driving along with a video cam in hand held position, switching on to 3D .. 3D ?? in camcorder ? what on earth is the world coming to .. it is dark, the night has fallen somewhat desperately over the skies that cover the expanse of this great metropolis of islands, of property having being sold...
DAY 1305
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 14/15 , 2011 Mon/Tue 1 : 31 AM
I am a loss .. a loss for words, for ideas and for what needs to go on the post today. I sit and think and wonder what must today be about. I need it to be interesting and honest and frank, so I spend more than the time that is required for such pastime. Nothing comes. Sometimes nothing comes from having too much...
DAY 1304
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 13, 2011 Sun 11 : 56 PM
An entire day singing glories of the film ‘Rockstar’ … sending letters and flowers to some concerned people on the film and to receive their equal affection .. listening to the music and allowing it to grow as does all Rehman’s music … and then again to allow its background as I write .. beautiful ! I wish...
DAY 1303
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 12/13 , 2011 Sat/Sun 1 : 47 AM
Is it just me or does this occur with others too ; moved by sentiment on seeing or being part of inspired creativity … a desire to be in part a portion of it … to lament that fact that not being among those that create it is great disaster … to wonder what it would have been like to have lived those...
DAY 1302
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 11 , 2011 Fri 11 : 47 PM
It is ruinous to be idle ! Work keeps many things at bay. The mind the body the thoughts everything concentrated on the nature of the work does not give it time to think of any other utensil .. a utensil that shall with its capacity to creating unbearable noise, drown all else !
Give the person that is...
DAY 1301(i)
Prateeksha , Mumbai Nov 11 , 2011 Fri 11 : 10 am
An addition to last nights blog :
Happy Birthday Sameer Chohan for the 11th .. love happiness
Amitabh
DAY 1301
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 10/11, 2011 Thu/Fri 12 : 16 AM
I had hoped that my blog today would be a compensatory for the short and cryptic one last night. But .. it seems very likely that its going to be quite the opposite. The doctor has moved in now and instructed in very severe terms that I need to take it easy and rest more and sleep well ahead of my normal...
DAY 1300
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 9/10 , 2011 Wed/Thu 2 : 01 AM
I am exhausted ! And that really is an understatement .. started early at aboit 7 am and have just returned .. and tomorrow, or today really I have to be at work by 6 am ..
As you may observe this leaves me very little time to rest and recoup .. so I shall seek forgiveness and disappear...
DAY 1299
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 8/9 , 2011 Tue/wed 12 : 44 AM
I have accomplished a good deed today ! I know not why or for whom, but it has been done !
I am through many reminders from dear ones, made to feel that I keep too silent, too unresponsive and nonreactive. This they all feel is the common grounds for exploitation and it makes them unhappy...
DAY 1298
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 7 , 2011 Mon 8 : 21 PM
Back home and away from the SunSeaSand and Solitude .. its more Sublime now, Selective and perhaps Sleepy … ha ha ! never felt the need to think of sleep there, but here even before we land and reach home, the body wants to go to sleep .. fear of circumstances, work, getting occupied … who knows ha !
CNN...
Day 1297 (i)
SSSS , S Nov 6 , 2011 Sat 11 : 45 PM
It is infectious to be alone and with book and lap top. All that one does is write and read and write again. Good enough activity for a break, but it is infectious.
The other of course is compulsive Tv watching … and what is that ailment called when you keep switching channels without...
Day 1297
SSSS , S Nov 6 , 2011 Sun 2 : 32 PM
A respondent and a member of our Extended Family , Kiran, had posted a matter which was of concern to him/her , and I thought it to be relevant enough to get it investigated. The comment was regarding the putting of questions related to the game show KBC, and of one such genre which was irking Kiran. This is what...
Day 1296 (ii)
SSSS , S Nov 5 , 2011 Sat 9 : 49 PM
Wishing all Eid Mubarak !!! and Shabbat Shalom !!!!
تمام عید مبارک کے خواہاں عيد مبارك בברכת שבת שלום לכל
Love and peace … in celebration
Amitabh Bachchan
Day 1296 (i)
SSSS , S Nov 5, 2011 Sat 9:01 PM
One of the great benefits of solitude is solitude itself ! There is so much that goes through the mind when it thinks, that making a start is the biggest hurdle. But, once done, matter just flows.
One of the factors of learning during this season of KBC has been the interaction with the...
Day 1296
SunSandSeaSolitude, Somewhere Nov 5, 2011 Sat 1 : 41 PM
This has been a long outstanding recognition which I have been trying to acknowledge and put up .. I never first got it in the way it should have come and when it came I did not know how to put it up on the blog. I am attempting to do so now -
Check out this video on YouTube:
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Day 1294 (i)
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 4/5 , 2011 Thu/Fri 2 : 05 AM
There is need to be with the family and its relatives. Relatives bring warmth and togetherness and discussions of valuable time spent together. Of the early years, of growth and of how different we looked. That special moment spent with a loved one and how it all seems so strange now. Old photographs, old...
Day 1295
SunSandSea Solitude , Somewhere Nov 4, 2011 Fri 11 : 38 PM
The passion of being by yourself is a trying thought. One labors and wishes it to come, and when it does you wish it not. Strange ! Or maybe just strange for me only. True and justifiable for the moment. I think it provokes your sensibilities, but beyond that nothing more. Which is...
Day 1294
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 3 , 2011 Thu 7 : 51 PM
Before all else there was the Blog ! Before all else there was compassion and love ! Before all else there shall always be that desire to know and appreciate ! Before all else there was distaste for envy, uncalled blame and assumed accusation !
If this platform cannot conform to that, may...
Day 1293
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 2, 2011 Wed 11 : 56 PM
” If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing then the desire is not to write”
And so I write .. but in limitation, in the need to communicate, in lateness of the night and in joy ! The joy of the victory of those that strive and struggle in life without warning,...
Day 1292
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 1, 2011 Wed 12:00 midnight
Greetings to all from the sets of KBC .. my love and warmth and more for all …
Yes it is late again and I am desperately trying to complete all that needs to be said for the night before turning in. There is not much, but much enough… really such a word or expression ? Ahgrhh who...
Day 1291 (i)
Jalsa , Mumbai Nov 1, 2011 Tue 3 : 51 PM
This has to stop. These nondescript etchings on the post. Meaningless, abrasive and without soul. If there is no time to be devoted to it in some concentration, then there is need to be away from it rather than commit.
And so … much against everyone that objects to this deliberation … my apologies again...
October 2011
31 posts
Day 1291
Jalsa , Mumbai Oct-Nov 31/1 , 2011 Mon/Tue 2 : 05 AM
Exhausted and drained of all energy ! Started at 6 in the morning and have not put my mind to rest for a moment since … but .. the blog and the respondents and my dearest Ef are in my mind always and hence this attempt to connect with all that have feelings that convey that we are indeed one !!
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