It was when I could bear no more. I went to them and asked, 'are you hungry?'. They said nothing. Luckily I had 2 toffies in my pocket which I gave it to them. Just then I heard a voice from behind, 'Hey you! don't give them any money.' I turned back to explain and saw a faculty member. He was carrying 2 pastries, and offered them to the kids. They accepted that with much more delight. I was happy. That faculty member went away smiling. So did the kids.
An Encounter With Happiness
It was when I could bear no more. I went to them and asked, 'are you hungry?'. They said nothing. Luckily I had 2 toffies in my pocket which I gave it to them. Just then I heard a voice from behind, 'Hey you! don't give them any money.' I turned back to explain and saw a faculty member. He was carrying 2 pastries, and offered them to the kids. They accepted that with much more delight. I was happy. That faculty member went away smiling. So did the kids.
आदमी भी अजीब है
मैं
मैं कम बोलता हूं, पर कुछ लोग कहते हैं कि जब मैं बोलता हूं तो बहुत बोलता हूं.
मुझे लगता है कि मैं ज्यादा सोचता हूं मगर उनसे पूछ कर देखिये जिन्हे मैंने बिन सोचे समझे जाने क्या क्या कहाहै!
मैं जैसा खुद को देखता हूं, शायद मैं वैसा नहीं हूं.......
कभी कभी थोड़ा सा चालाक और कभी बहुत भोला भी...
कभी थोड़ा क्रूर और कभी थोड़ा भावुक भी....
मैं एक बहुत आम इन्सान हूं जिसके कुछ सपने हैं...कुछ टूटे हैं और बहुत से पूरे भी हुए हैं...पर मैं भी एक आमआदमी की तरह् अपनी ज़िन्दगी से सन्तुष्ट नही हूं...
मुझे लगता है कि मैं नास्तिक भी हूं थोड़ा सा...थोड़ा सा विद्रोही...परम्परायें तोड़ना चाहता हूं ...और कभी कभी थोड़ा डरता भी हूं...
मुझे खुद से बातें करना पसंद है और दीवारों से भी...
बहुत से और लोगों की तरह मुझे भी लगता है कि मैं बहुत अकेला हूं...
मैं बहुत मजबूत हूं और बहुत कमजोर भी...
लोग कहते हैं लड़कों को नहीं रोना चाहिये...पर मैं रोता भी हूं...और मुझे इस पर गर्व है क्योंकि मैं कुछ ज्यादा महसूस करता हूं ............
(courtsey: Shashi Ranjan:)
My Experiments With Truth (Review)

The Fountainhead (review)

Gail Wynand, one of the richest man in NYC, talking to Dominique (his wife) about love
“Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you.”
Peter Keating is basically the opposite of the hero, Howard Roark. He speaks of him here.
“I often think that he’s the only one of us who’s achieved immortality. I don’t mean in the sense of fame and I don’t mean that he won’t die some day. But he’s living it. I think he is what the conception really means. You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with every day that passes. When you meet them, they’re not what you met last. In any given hour, they kill some part of themselves. They change, they deny, they contradict–and they call it growth. At the end there’s nothing left, nothing unrevered or unbetrayed; as if there had never been any entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out on an unformed mass. How do they expect a permanence which they have never held for a single moment? But Howard–one can imagine him existing forever.”
Love Aaj Kal : movie review

Ratings(out of 5)