Want to collaborate for a Hindustani Blog ?

I am looking for equal partners to start a blog in Hindustani written in Devanagari.
Let me know if you are interested.
We can figure out the details of the blog (thing like -Name of the blog .... the kind of stuff that we would post on the blog ... the kind of stuff we will not post on the blog ... how the blog will look etc etc) later ...

Not so sweet 16 +16

Really strange ... in the last few days I have read about a few interesting personalities ... all of them had a common trait ... they died at the age of 32 ... how odd can that be ... These guys are from different corners of the world ... were active in different fields ... and lived in different times ... check them out yourself ... Sikander ... Adi Shankaracharya ... Ramanujan ... Bruce Lee

Ek Chidiya - Anek Chidiyan

Truly Classic from "Films Division", made for the "Center for Educational Technology" (NCERT) and played about a million times by Dur-Darshan ... repeated to the extent that it got etched forever in our memories ...

I have transcripted the lyrics in देवनागरी and Roman (English) scripts -
firefox users should enable indic language support (start->settings->control panel->regional and language support) to see देवनागरी properly

हम् .. हिंद देश .. हम् हम्हम् ... हम सभी .. एक हैं .. ता र र र र
भाषा अनेक हैं हम् .. भाषा अनेक हैं हम्

ये अनेक क्या है दीदी ?
अनेक यानि बहोत सारे
बहोत सारे .. क्या बहोत सारे ?
अच्छा बताती हूँ .. सूरज एक, चन्दा एक, तारे अनेक
तारों को अनेक भी कहते हैं ?
नही नही, देखो फिर से

सूरज एक चन्दा एक .. एक एक एक करके तारे भये अनेक

ठीक से समझाऊ ना दीदी

देखो देखो एक गिलहरी .. पीछे पीछे अनेक गिलहरियाँ
एक तितली .. एक और तितली .. एक एक एक करके हो गयीं अब अनेक तितलियाँ

समझ गया दीदी .. एक ऊँगली, अनेक उँगलियाँ
हाँ
दीदी दीदी वह देखो अनेक चिडियाँ
अनेक चिडियों की कहानी सुनोगे
हाँ हाँ

आ आ आ एक चिडिया एक-एक करके अनेक चिडियाँ .. दाना चुगने आई चिडियाँ

दीदी दीदी हमे भी सुनाओ ना
तो सुनो फिर से

एक चिडिया, अनेक चिडिया, दाना चुगने बैठ गयीं थी
हाय राम! पर वहाँ, ब्याल ने एक जाल बिछाया था
ब्याल, ब्याल कौन दीदी ?
ब्याल, चिडिया पकड़ने वाला
फिर क्या हाउ दीदी ? ब्य्ला ने उन्हे पकड़ लिया ? मार डाला ?

हिम्मत से अगर जुटे रहें तो .. छोटे हों पर मिले रहें तो बड़ा काम भी होवे भईय्या .. बड़ा काम भी होवे भईय्या
एक दो तीन ... चतुर चिडियाँ, सायानी चिडियाँ, मिल जुल कर, जाल ले कर, भागी चिडियाँ .. फुर्ररररररर

दूर, एक गाओं के पास, चिडियों के दोस्त चूहे रहते थे और उन्होने चिडियों का जाल काट दिया
तो देखा फिर तुमने, अनेक फिर एक हो जातें हैं तो कैसा मज़ा आता है

दीदी मै बताऊं .. हो गए एक .. बन गई ताकत .. बन गई हिम्मत
दीदी हम अगर एक हो जाएं तो बड़ा काम कर सकते हैं ?
हाँ हाँ क्यों नही
तो इस पेड़ के आम तोड़ सकते हैं ?
हाँ तोड़ सकते हैं, पर जुगत लगनी होगी
..
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अच्छा , ये जुगत, वाह, बड़ा मज़ा आएगा

हिंद देश के निवासी सभी जन एक हैं X4

रंग रूप वेश भाषा चाहे अनेक हैं X4

एक अनेक, एक अनेक ... सूरज एक चन्दा एक तारे अनेक
एक तितली अनके तितलियाँ ..एक गिलहरी अनेक गिलहरियाँ
एक चिडिया एक एक अनेक चिडियाँ

बेला गुलाब जूही चंपा चमेली X4

फूल हैं अनेक किंतु माला फिर एक है X4


hmm .. hind desh .. hm hmhm .. hum sabhi .. ek hain.. ta ra ra ra ra
bhasha aneka hain hmm .. bhnasha aneka hain hmm

ye anek kya hai didi?
anek yaaney bahot saarey
bahot saarey .. kya bahot saarey ?
achcha batati hoon .. sooraj ek, chanda ek, taarey anek
taaron ko anek bhi kehtey hain?
nahi nahi, daikho phir sey

sooraj ek chanda ek .. ek ek ek karkey taarey bhaye anek

theek sey samjhaoo na didi

daikho daikho ek gilahri ... peechey peechey anek gilahriyan
ek titali ..ek aur titali .. ek ek ek karkey ho gayeen ab anek titaliyaan

samajh gaya didi .. ek ungli, anek ungliyan
haan
didi didi woh dekho anek chidiyan
anek chidiyon ki kahani sunogey ?
haan haan

aa aa aa ek chidiya ek-ek karkey anek chidiyan .. daana chugney aayi chidiyan

didi didi humey bhi sunaoo na
to suno phir sey

ek chidiya anek chidiyan
daana chugney baith gayeen thi
hai raam! par wahan, byal ney ek jaal bichaaya tha
byal, byal kaun didi ?
byal, chidiya pakadney waala
phir kya hua didi? byal ney unhey pakad liya? maar dala

himmat sey agar jutey rahen to ..chootey hon par miley rahen to bada kaam bhi hovey bhaiya .. bada kaam bhi hovey bhaiya
ek do teen .. chatur chidya, sayani chidiya, mil jul kar, jaal le kar, bhaagi chidiyan .. phurrrrr

duur, ek gaaon ke paas, chidiyon ke dost choohey rehtey they aur unhoney chidiyon ka jaal kaat diya
to daikha phir tumney anek phir ek ho jaatey hain to kaisa maza aata hai

didi mai bataaon ... ho gaye ek .. ban gayi takat .. ban gayi himmat
didi agar hum ek ho jaayen to bada kaam kar saktey hain?
haan haan kyon nahi
to is ped ke aam bhi toad saktey hain?
haan toad saktey hain , par jugad lagani hogi
..
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achcha, ye jugat, wah, bada maza aayega

hind daish ke niwaasi sabhi jan ek hain X4

rang roop vesh bhasha chaahey anek hain X4

ek aneky ek aneky .. sooraj ek chanda ek taarey anek
ek titiali aneky titiliayan .. ek gilahri anek gilahriyan
ek chidiya ek ek anek chidiyan

beyla gulaab juhi chumpa chameli X4

phool hain anek kintu maala phir ek hai X4

Let me know about transcription/spelling/transliteration mistakes by leaving a comment

(Thanks to Saurabhusbondre , the youtube video has been posted by him. Another thank-you goes to my pal kholu for pointing me to the video)

The Nobel Sherwani

The Sherwani is looking smart at the Nobel Awards Ceremony

Honed to Perfection ???

This article was recommended by Subbu in a comment on Susu's blog-post about some transient midlife-crisis/existential-dilemma

It says that, many a times, the search for perfection is not good for you ... that the extra load and worry is just not worth it ...

I agree ... not because I am a lazy bum (you guessed wrong) ... but because I have always believed in "ek lohaar ki"

Wouldn't it be great if we all knew when to stop ... we could just show up ... make maximum impact ... and then rush out before the law of diminishing returns kicks in

I cannot paste the whole article ... nytimes copyright rules bar free distribution ... but you can always follow the URL
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/health/04mind.html

I guess folks in the software world would find the concept familiar. One of the warnings, given at the time of training, is against gold-plating

So folks ... chill out ... take it easy and enjoy

Shikaar-e-Naukari

Shikaar-e-Naukari ... sounds like the name of a complex poem ... it probably is complex ... but it definitely is not poetic ... it's more of a slaying-the-beast kind of a thing ... this Shikaar-e-Naukari (a bad translation of the word "Job-Hunt")

In all possibility "hunting" would have been an adventure thing even in the times of the early man ... only brave men (women?) would have entered the forests to slay the beast ... possibly to protect their fellow tribesmen, cattle or fields ... or maybe to kill a lunch or a dinner ...

With advances in technology (spear ... bow and arrow) and society (division of labour ... surplus produce ... specialized fighters) the odds would have tilted away from the hunted and in favour of the hunter ... fear would have come down ... and men would have started enjoying the hunts ...

Those looking for some thrills would go for the kills ... We know that Raja-Maharaajas, Nawabs and other assorted muchchads hunted for pleasure ... and the English and their (its turned ours now) language took the adventure-sport of killing a step further - it called it "Game" hunting...

Times have changed from then ... today shooting with the gun is out of fashion ...most of the shooting takes place thru the lens of a camera ... but the thrill of the kill remains ... and that is good news for me ... for I am on a Job Hunt

The fun part began with the resume ... something I last made when I was in b-school ... more than 3 years back ... in fact I had kissed my CV goodbye on the day I started on my own firm ... thankfully there was an old copy stashed somewhere in my yahoo briefcase ... so with a little copying of formats (thank you G) I could reconstruct most of the CV ...

The issues while making a CV are many

- size - one can make a five pager with intricate details of each project (technology, business domain, learnings, contributions, achievements, reporting structure blah blah blah) ...

- details - Some put a section on non-verifiable and usually cliche skills (out of box thinker,excellent communicator,team-player,eye for details etc etc) ...

- level of cow-dung (bull-shit for non-feminists) - Some people like to open with a paragraph of pompous self-boast e.g - A dynamic go-getter, with a penchant for innovation, drive for success, working as a catalytic change-agent zzzzzzz ..... others put more non-verifiable bullshit in the (believe-it-or-not) achievement's section e.g- Helped underprivileged blind children climb mount everest while carrying mother Teressa on my shoulders...

- Font - Thankfully laziness saved me the trouble of choosing fonts ... I unashamedly copied (smart worker, champion of efficiency enhancing methods like re-use) from the standard IIMB format
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There were lots of other things ... but, for your benefit, I will cut the story short (or else I lose the very few readers who have bothered to read this far).

so what did I do? ... ... you might have guessed it right -I took the shortcut ... made a one-pager (size limits the amount of bull-shit) and sent it to friends for feedback ... Oh yes - I have been a quality guy ... I know the pluses of peer-review ...

The feedbacks are in and I am into the final draft ... hopefully it will not carry too much of embellishing bull ...

as Jigar Muradabadi had said

sab hi andaaz-e-husn pyaare hain
hum magar saadgi ke maarey hain

signing-off today with thank-yous to xl, uncle, pareekh, andy and jim

We didn't start the bubble - too good

Way cool

Note- Pilfered from a usually biased and occasionally good blog (sort of like lotus in the middle of muck)

Track your comments

This seems like a very friendly feature of blogspot

Now you can get intimated of any follow-up comments on a post... Meaning ... if you write a comment on a post and want to get an intimation whenever someone else writes another comment on that post - you can easily do that ... you just have to check an option box while posting your comment ...

this picture shows the option box that needs to be checked -



I always wanted a feature like this ... and was very happy when I discovered it today ... am wondering if its been around for a while ... and also wondering why blogger's has not publicized this new feature