June 2010
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jadoo
जिस जुनून से इश्क़ करते है जादू से कम नहीं पलकें झूकाके हम तो ज़र्रे को खुदा बनाते है, तू तो फिर भी तू है झपकती पलकों से नज़र तो मिलाओ हमारी दोस्ती किस बुलंदी पे तुम्हे ले जाती है
We can be divided into four categories according... →
We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under.
The first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public. The second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at…
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May 2010
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December 2009
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November 2009
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August 2009
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Review: Love Aaj Kal Bahut Boring Ho Gaya.
I am a sucker for love stories. So Imitaz Ali’s new summer flick Love Aaj Kal didn’t have to be a revolutionary, insightful or different. As a genre-aficionado of the feel-good love story, give me a half-decent soundtrack, competent acting, and oodles of chemistry and I am already in love. As a romantic, I love the opportunity to indulge in cinematic escape from the persistent state of mid-life...
July 2009
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Bheeg Gaye Mera Mann by Kailesh Kher —Makes...
June 2009
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“When resentment and contention threatened to destroy his administration, he...”
– Doris Goodwin, Team of Rivals, page xvii (about Lincoln)
megha jhar jhar
Something Worth Fighting About
June 21, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist
New York Times: A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets
By ROGER COHEN
TEHRAN — The Iranian police commander, in green uniform, walked up Komak Hospital Alley with arms raised and his small unit at his side. “I swear to God,” he shouted at the protesters facing him, “I have children, I have a wife, I don’t want to beat people. Please go...
Begin by Rumi
This is now. Now is,
all there is. Don’t wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire. Sit at the Beloved’s table, feast with gusto, drink your fill then dance the way branches of jasmine and cypress dance in a spring wind. The green earth is your cloth; tailor your robe with dignity and grace
“Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be...”
– Aneurin Bevan
Forgiveness
NYT: Out of Guantánamo, Uighurs Bask in Bermuda
Justin Maxon/The New York Times
AN OCEAN IDYLL Salahidin Abdulahat, left, and Khaleel Mamut, Uighur Muslims recently freed from Guantánamo Bay, swam in Bermuda on Sunday. Mr. Abdulahat said his first-ever ocean swim was “the happiest day of my life.” By ERIK ECKHOLM Published: June 14, 2009
ST. GEORGE, Bermuda — Almost exactly seven...
Unending Love
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it’s age old pain, It’s ancient tale of being apart or...
“Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do...”
– Mark Steven Johnson, Ghostrider, 2007
