कौन हो तुम !

इस मुखौटे के पीछे न जाने राज़ हैं कितने
कैसे सुलझा पाउँगा सवालात मैं इतने

सभी ने तेरी बस एक झलक ही पायी है
कहते हैं ज़मीं पर तू आसमां से उतर आई है

तेरी आँखों की गहराई माप जाऊं यह मेरे बस में नहीं
पर तेरे आंसू भी न पोंछ पाऊं इतना भी बेबस मैं नहीं

कोशिश मैं करता रहूँगा इस पहेली को बूझने की
अब तो आदत सी है मुझको उलझनों से जूझने की

तेरी तस्वीर को ज़हन में उतार के अब तुझे होने ना दूंगा गुम
परदे बेपर्दा करता रहूँगा जब तक जानूंगा ना कौन हो तुम ! कौन हो तुम!

Happy Friendship Day !!

Teri bachpan ki har aadat , chhoti moti sari shararat, mein sath woh deta hai, 
Aur kabhi tujhe fasakar , headmaster se pitwakar, chain ki neend woh sota hai !
Phir agle hi din tera homework karke, bilkul udhaas hoke, tujhe hi sorry kehta hai,
Isi liye toh dosti ka bond hamesha ke liye rehta hai!

Tere kisi bhi jhagde mein , be matlab ke lafde mein , bin soche samjhe wo kood jata hai, 
Tujhe pitne se bacha toh nahi pata , lekin tujhse zyada maar zaroor khata hai !
Phir bhi apni marham-patti se pehle dava woh tujhe hi lagata hai,
Isi liye toh dosti ka bond itna strong kehlata hai !

Teri har chhoti picnic ya badi trip, jiske bina complete nahi ho pati ,
Pocket money ke tere issues ho to uski taraf se sponsorship hai aa jati !
Teri pehli setting karne mein usika sabse bada contribution hota hai,
Isi liye toh dosti ka bond sabse best relation hota hai !

Yeh baatein to bahut kam hai , sab kehne mein toh ek arsa beet jayega , 
Phir bhi dost ki di hui saari khushiyon ka hisaab nahi lag payega ! 
so I just tried to pen down few memories and have nothing much to say, 
To everyone out there... Wish u a very HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY !

IPL : Indian Problem League

It is one of the darkest days in the history of Indian cricket. A billion fans have been taken for a ride. They have been cheated or I may say, a nation has been cheated. Cricketing fans at the stadiums feel their money has been wasted. Today every cricket fan is sad , disgusted and angry.

Is it really so ? Is it really a national issue ? Do you really feel cheated ? I am a cricket fan too but I somehow do not echo the same sentiments. I mean I don't think that a spot fixing in a franchise based cricket tournament should be made up a national issue when there are already many open GATES leading to the huge palace of corruption (coal-gate, rail-gate, chopper-gate , never ending etc.)

IPL is meant for entertaining people. When you go to watch an IPL match , it is not cricket , but the electrifying atmosphere which you enjoy the most. It is the great IPL experience which you take back home. And after getting back if you get to know that one of the overs was fixed , do you really care ? Most of us would say that why the hell there was any need to fix that bowler when he anyways would have given a plenty of runs :) Just recall how many times you have said to yourself or discussed among your friends about a match being fixed due to a totally unexpected turnaround of events. Catches being dropped by the best fielders , no balls being bowled at crucial phases or batsmen just throwing away their wicket when they are close to a win. After all such instances, being a supporter of losing team, you would have said..yaar fix hai sab :)

Yes , the guilty should be punished, but will banning them for life help ? I mean life ban would mean actually a ban of just 5-6 years for a player who is already in his 30s. There needs to be a stricter punishment. Having said that, I also don't agree to put them behind bars for 5-7 years. A country whose super rich cash league is being run by underworld kingpins via 1000s of agents, couldn't catch the real culprits and finally put their own cricketers behind bars. How can you justify that ? I agree that it is up to the players to stand up and refuse such offers. But what about cracking the whole nexus ? What are you doing to avoid such things in future?

As a process analyst , here I feel like taking a cue from the ITIL framework established for IT service management..haiinn ?? ITIL?? Is this guy  mad??? :) I know you must be wondering how it suddenly shifted from cricket to IT.:) But in ITIL , there are two very important concepts of incident management and problem management. Incident management deals with fixing a particular disruption or issue in the system. But it does not stop it from recurring in future. For removing the root cause of the incident, one has to apply problem management.

What Delhi police or the BCCI has done or is doing from past is actually an incident management. These match fixing issues arise just like a huge incident and police fix it by nabbing few of them involved. The system continues to run again without analyzing the underlying root cause. They need to analyze why these things are happening repeatedly. What I understand from the latest reports in media is that a huge amount of money from underworld is being pumped in IPL. The betting centers in India are being run from foreign lands. It is not clear how actually the players get their payment. Players are also seen with many shady characters who suddenly appear from nowhere and then vanish into the crowd. 

These things create an environment which leads to some suspicion and they can be called as the potential root causes which leads to such sad events.  Delhi police have done a great job in nabbing those involved in spot fixing , but to solve the overall Problem they need to eliminate the root cause. Which unfortunately is not and never was in their control. And a sincere request to Media...Please show some news on LBT issue, coz currently that is something which is affecting my daily life and has become a national issue at my home..:(:(

Syaahi !

कुछ लिखता हूँ तो ग़म के मारे अलफ़ाज़ ही निकलते हैं,

खुश-हाल जिंदा-दिल शायरी अब लिखी नहीं जाती !

लिख लिख के ज़िन्दगी के पन्ने भरते जा रहा हूँ,

कमबख्त ये रंज-ओ-ग़म की स्याही ख़तम हो नहीं पाती !!

और तो इस स्याही का रंग भी काला है,

इक दफा लग जाए तो छुडाये नहीं छूटती !

जाने क्या खता हो गयी जो थाम लिया मैंने इसे,

वरना ये ज़िन्दगी मुझसे कभी युहीं नहीं रूठती !!

अब तो कलम तोड़ कर भी कोई फायदा नहीं,

यह स्याही खून बनकर मेरी रगों में दौड़ने लगी है !

मेरे दिल के अन्दर इक जद्द-ओ-जेहद सी जारी है,

जिस में इसे ख़तम करने की उम्मीद अभी तक जगी है !!

पर लगता है स्याही नहीं मेरे ही अन्दर का वो खून है,

जो मांगता सिर्फ क़ुरबानी है !

शायद इन रगों का कट जाना ही मुनासिब होगा,

गर मुझे इससे निजाद पानी है !!

यह खून बना था उस हारी हुई सोच से ,

जो दिमाग से होकर ज़हन में घर है कर जाती !

काश यह मैंने पहले ही समझ लिया होता,

तो ये स्याही भी उसी पल खत्म हो जाती…उसी पल खत्म हो जाती !!

Khwahishein hain chhoti si !

Khwahishein hain chhoti si, puri toh kar lene do !

Jitni ho sake haathon mein, yeh reth bhar lene do !!

 

Dheere dheere ungliyon ke beech se nikal jati hai,

Jitni koshish karta hoon, utna hi phisal jati hai,

Thodi hi sahi, per yeh mutthi toh bhar lene do !

Khwahishein hain chhoti si puri toh kar lene do !!

 

Nanhe se sapne hain per pure nahi samaate hain,

Adhoore se dikhte hain, adhoore hi reh jaate hain,

In sapnon ke liye aankhon mein, aansoo toh bhar lene do !

Khwahishein hain chhoti si puri toh kar lene do !!

 

Har pal kushi se jeene ki koshish kiya karte hain,

Zindagi ke mushqil imtihaanon se per darte hain,

Ik baar akele ladne ki himmat toh kar lene do !

Khwahishein hain chhoti si puri toh kar lene do !!

 

Ik duje ki khushi mein apni khushi mil jati hai,

Baaton toh gham ki takleef bhi kam ho jati hai,

Ghut ghut ke jeeye ab tak, ab dil khol ke toh mar lene do !
Khwahishein hain chhoti si puri toh kar lene do !

Jitni ho sake haathon mein ye reth bhar lene do !!

Aey Dil !

Yepp I am back with hardcore shayri stuff..:) Haven't really written much , but a few lines in which I have tried to capture the happenings of our fast paced life.. just read it n tell me your views , and in the meantime I'll think of few more good lines which I can add to this post..

Aey dil kabhi sochta kyun nahi hai tu, 
kuch karne se khud ko rokta kyun nahi hai tu !
Ek lambe safar si chalti ja rahi ye zindagi , har mode per liye kahani ik nayee !
Kuch kahaniya tujhe gham hain deti , kuch tujhe deti hain khushiyaa,
Tezz raftaar se badalti ja rahi hai tere aas paas ki duniya !
Is duniya mein naye naye chehro se padta hai tera vaasta,
Koi chehra hamsafar banta hai toh koi bas dikhata hai tujhe raasta !
Phir kuch meelon baad woh humsafar tera sath chhod jata hai,  
Kyunki manzil ko pane ki hode mein tu bahut aage daud jata hai!
Jaane phir bhi thakta kyun nahi hai tu, kyun uff tak karta nahi hai tu,
Aey dil kabhi sochta kyun nahi hai tu, 
kuch karne se khud ko rokta kyun nahi hai tu !!

I will not die without meeting you - 2

It’s taken me a long time to come up with a new post. These days I have not been trying much on the writing front. I had started on few, but then didn’t find them interesting enough and soon lost the track of what I was supposed to convey through my thoughts... Going through few of my old posts, I thought of writing a sequel to one of them - I will not die without meeting you! I personally believe the sequel has to be better than the first, and so it took a lot of time to think of it.I have scribbled something, but still I ain’t convinced with the outcome and I may never be coz I really loved the first one..So not thinking much on it, and leaving you guys to rate it, here’s my latest post -

 

Where were you?

 

I could hear some noise, I could hear people talking around me,

I wanted to open my eyes and see them but it looked quite difficult,

My eyes were heavy and I felt as if I was sleeping for years,

I opened my eyes slowly and carefully,

I could see my friends and family standing beside me,

All looking at me with a smile on their face and tears in their eyes,

They were happy to see me alive and I was happy to know that I would be able to see you !
 

I wanted to know where you were but didn’t had the courage to ask someone about you,

You know they never liked you, they always thought that you wanted to take me away from them,I asked them where they found me and how did I survive that stormy night,

They told me that it was you who saved me, it was you who brought me here,

It was you who made it possible for me to see another day,

And then everyone looked at the door as if they were expecting someone,

To my surprise, you entered the room!

You were wearing that white dress, which I had gifted you on your birthday,

Those diamond earrings which we had bought from the new jewellery outlet in the town,

And those white stilettos which you always wanted to wear on a special day,

Everyone hugged you and welcomed you!
 

I was overjoyed to see you and to see my friends and family accepting you,

You hugged me and whispered in my ears, “ thanks for making it till here,
thanks for keeping your promise, I wish I could also keep mine!
 

After saying this you just left the room and everyone looked sad and started crying,

I was unable to understand what was happening and why did you say so,

For a moment I felt something was terribly wrong,

Suddenly a thought crossed my mind,

You never wore those stilettos coz you could hardly walk with such high heels,

We never bought those earrings coz you always felt that they were too expensive,

And that white birthday dress? I never gifted you that as I had lost it in that stormy night,

So, so what was true? What was real? And where were you? Where were you?!

Here's the link to the first one - 
http://www.chhaviraina.blogspot.in/2010/02/i-will-not-die-without-meeting-you.html