Gazal!!

लज्जतेग़म बढ़ा दीजिये,
आप यूँ मुस्कुरा दीजिये

चाँद कब तक गहन में रहे,
आप ज़ुल्फें हटा दीजिये

मेरा दामन अभी साफ है,
कोई तोहमद़ लगा दीजिये

आप अंधेरे में कब तक रहें,
फिर कोई घर जला दीजिये

एक समुंदर ने आवाज दी,
मुझको पानी पिला दीजिये

लज्जतेग़म बढ़ा दीजिये,
आप यूँ मुस्कुरा दीजिये

-- From someone really great!

.....and then I started teaching Hindi!!

....This summer when everybody is involved in different activities and setting up hopes for the future, I thought of doing something too ...

....recently, I came to know about the "Global Language group" in the Washington DC area and got a gut feeling that this is the place to start.

And guess what???

Yesterday, I took my first Hindi class in George Washington University. There are around 14 students enrolled in my class. They are all from different backgrounds ...one of them is doing Phd is linguistics, another one is doing some research about malnutrition in India ..and so and so ..

In one line "...this is a new completly new experience for me"

but still there are two questions in my mind:

1) Would i be able to make some difference somewhere? and the bigger one is ...

2) How come, I never thought of doing same thing back in India??

I think therefore I am!!

.....the term "Cogito ergo sum" ( i think...therefore i am..) was coined by Rene Descartes (a philosopher)..which further became the foundation of "rationalism" and "empiricism"

..the basic interpration of this term is " i am vivdly aware of my existence.."

perhaps he wants to address that: "i do not know whether somebody is there with me or not? but i am on my way, because i am thinking ..."

So....think about it!!!!
-Ashutosh...

Kabhi aisa lagta hain!!

....kabhi aisa lagta hain:

Is duniya se dur nikal jau, aur chand main chipe aadmi se dosti kar aau,
jab kabhi akela houn, to kam se kam use to apne pass pau.

Is virane, Is sannate main jab 'ashu' kahin ghum hoga,
chand pe chipa aadmi muje aake dhoond lega.

Jo mukam sadiyon chalkar bhi paar nahin hota,woh shab-e-raat ke palon main sakar ho jayega,

aur chotti chotti ankhon se chand ka didar ho jayega.

(..In progress)