waqt shayari by javed akhtar



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वक़्त !
ये वक़्त क्या है
ये क्या है आखिर कि  जो मसल्सल गुजर रहा है
ये जब न गुज़रा था तब कहाँ था?
कहीं तो होगा!
गुज़र गया है तो अब कहाँ है?
कहीं तो होगा !
कहाँ से आया, किधर गया है?
ये कब से कब तक का सिलसिला है?
ये वक़्त क्या है ?

ये वाकये ये हादसे ये तसातुम
हर एक गम और हर एक मसर्रत
हर एक क़जीयत हर एक लज्ज़त
हर एक तबस्सुम हर एक आंसू
हर एक नगमा हर एक खुसबू
वो ज़ख्म का दर्द हो कि वो लम्ज़ का हो जादू
खुद अपनी आवाज़ हो कि माहौल कि सदायें

ये जेहन में बनती और बिगडती हुयी फज़ाए
वो फिक्र में आये ज़लज़ले हों दिल में  हलचल

तमाम एहसास
सारे जज्बे
ये जैसे पत्ते  हैं
बहते पानी कि सतह पे जैसे तैरते हैं
अभी यहाँ है,
अभी वहां है,
और अब हों ओझल ,
दिखाई देता नहीं है लेकिन ये कुछ तो है जो कि बह रहा है !
ये कैसा दरिया है !
किन पहाड़ों  से आ रहा है?
ये किस  समुन्दर को जा रहा है?
ये वक़्त क्या है ?

कभी कभी मैं ये सोचता हूँ
 कि चलती  गाड़ी से पेड़ देखो तो ऐसा लगता है  दूसरी संत जा रहे हैं
कभी कभी मैं ये सोचता हूँ
 कि चलती  गाड़ी से पेड़ देखो तो ऐसा लगता है  दूसरी संत जा रहे हैं

मगर हकीकत में पेड़ अपनी जगह खड़े हैं
तो क्या ये मुमकिन है
सारी सदियाँ कतार अन्दर कतार अपनी जगह खड़ीं हो
ये वक़्त साकित  हो और हम ही गुजर रहे हों

इस एक लम्हें में सारे लम्हें तमाम सदियाँ छुपी हों
न कोई आइन्दा न गुज़िस्तान
जो हो चुका है हो रहा है
जो होने वाला है हो रहा है
मैं सोचता हूँ कि क्या ये मुमकिन है
सच ये हो कि सफ़र में हम हैं
गुजरते हम हैं
जिसे समझते हैं हम गुजरता है ,  वो थमा है
गुजरता है या थमा हुआ है
इकाई है या बंटा हुआ है
है मुंज़मिद या पिघल रहा है
किसे खबर है किसे पता है?
ये वक्त क्या है ?

-(जावेद अख्तर)

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ek aur kavita

कुछ करो नया, कुछ करो नया
कुछ नया रंग फ़िर भरो जरा,
फ़िर कुछ बिजली सी चमकाओ
तूफ़ानो सा फिर चलो जरा।

कुछ बात व्यंग से निकली थी
तुम बात नई फिर करो जरा,
होते होते जो रह गयी थी
उस विपदा का हल करो जरा।

कुछ कहने वाले कह गये थे
कुछ हमसे भी तुम सुनो जरा,
जो कहते सुनते रह गयी थी
उस बात मे दम फिर भरो जरा।

कुछ अजब रंग की चालों से
ये जीवन गाथा भरो जरा,
कुछ देर अभी तुम और रुको
पग धरती पर रहे धरो जरा |

आकाश उमड़ कर आया है
जीवन का सागर लाया है,
इस वर्षा मे तुम भीग डूब
जीवन मे रस फिर भरो जरा।

कुछ आशायें बाकी हैं अभी
कुछ देर अभी दम रखो जरा,
सूरज बस उगने वाला है
निज ध्येय को जाके छुओ जरा।

-प्रदीप

Life and Death

‘Death’ is the biggest ignorance and the ultimate truth. Knowledge of death teaches us value of people around us and hence that of life. All the things, we fight over or struggle for, becomes trivial and we understand the importance of love, companionship, faith, trust, relation, happiness, sharing…..all that we ignore in the blind race for material possessions of our so called modern life.


'Life' : The mysterious illusion, with its indefatigable instinct to exist and continue, a path, a journey or a destination? Who understands life?


P.S.: I wrote this on 22nd Jan 2010 in a thought to post when I write more, but a year passed in that thought. May be a larger essay some other time when i understand this duo better.

India and NRIs

This post is a comment to a blog which was a response to another blog. I have two interesting blogs for you to read.
This starts with a story of an NRI who wrote “Why I left India (again)”,  (do read this to make sense of what follows) and then Chetan Bhagat wrote a very interesting response  "Why i am still here" ( not to that NRI but to us all in general). In first blog the NRI has explained how he tried to return to India but found himself losing those traits he valued. Then Chetan Bhagat shared  his positive and indeed inspiring experience. What follows is my comment to Chetan but before that please read above two.

Thanks Chetan for sharing this.
what an experience...I stumbled on your blog while reading comments on the blog of that NRI. and i stumbled on that while googling for whether Indians tops in remitting forex or not. It was also very interesting to read the comments.
    I really appreciate that you are practicing those values which others just find "lacking" here in India but when comes practice , they also hide behind the "hypocrite" status of Indian society.
I also share the ambivalence in the treatment to domestic helps and really abhor calling them servant and rather refer them as employees. on the other hand, being nice to domestic helps is, as with you, a mixed experience. Specially when a raise disturbs the "market price" and my neighbors tend to complain and every other help want a raise. And as we know by Herzberg's theory, money is not a constant motivator. However, good family like treatment invariably wins their heart and they themselves tend to be good at service.
 I try to talk to a rickshaw puller or vegetable vender as an equal and it makes them happy except few instances when my politeness is (mis)interpreted as weakness(but i don't care). Of course one has to struggle hard to find one's way in India, but being good yourself really helps. It had happened many times that i have avoided a road-rage (imagine Delhi roads) just by with a smile having a sorry or forgiveness (depending on who is at fault more) tone. Actually just before one start responding to an unintentional scratch on your car, if you show a smile, and be as considerate as its just an accident and your body is more important than your car, they tend to copy it and do not take the course of anger and just shrug it.

Coming back, i started this with my search on which country has highest remittances in the world. India is numero uno :-) and till 2010 our foreign remittances were about 55 Billion USD, keeping China as second with a close sum. This money is about 5% of our GDP, So I believe many NRIs are doing a very good job out there. About half of this money comes from Gulf countries where poor labourers are working away from home sending money to feed their family. That's also the reason Kerala is amongst rich states in India.
I thank all NRIs for bringing wealth and modern values in to India. We will take time, but we will come to what we dream for. All we need is just each of playing our own part well.