Wednesday 29 May 2013

Ek Lohar

Vo har roz us chhoti si dukaan k bahar,
Street light ki peeli roshni k neeche..
Lohe ki lambi rods par nishaan lagata,
Fir apne doosre saathi ko bula k
Un nishaano par chheni rakh kar hathode maarta,
Aur lambi lambi rods ko kaat ta rehta, thokta rehta.

Sirf ek chheni aur ek hathoda hi rehta tha uske paas auzaaron k naam pe.
Paseene paseene ho jata tha jab
Tb ruk jata kuch der, susta leta, aur fir lag jata

Roz roz yehi dekhti huyi, mai
Guzar jaati thi uske saamne se.

Fir kuch ek roz ke baad dekha maine
Uske haathon mei cheheni, hathoda nhi tha
Maathe pe paseena bhi nhi tha
Chehre pe ek chamak si dikh rahi thi
Aur haath mei ek machine dikh rahi thi.

Bohot khushi se aur bade dhyan se
Bijli ki uss aari se aaram se wo loha kaat raha tha.

Tabhi mera dhyan mere haath pe gaya
Mere yearly review ka letter tha hath mei
Hum sab ke sath uska bhi promotion ho gaya tha
Chhoti thi dukaan to kya hua wo bhi skilled lohar ho gaya tha!!

Baadal, Raat aur Suraj

Dekha kal aakash to kai rang bikhare the
Dhalte suraj pe badlon ke ghane pehre the
Suraj to kho chuka tha pashchim k aagosh mein
Nahin tha jaise wo khud ke hi hosh mein
Uski kirane phut rahin thi badlon se aise
Tod dena chahti ho baadlo ki bandishein jaise

Kab tak badal aur raat suraj ki kirno ko yun rok payengi
Hogi subah aur raat ki ghata chhat jayegi
Fir se kirne roshan hogi dharti par
Aur raat ko munh chidhayengi…..

Waqt se kaun lad paya hai!!

Waqt se kaun lad paya hai,
Samne uske sabne dhokha hi khaya hai,
Jana pada hai jab waqt ne bulaya hai,
Jane kyu, waqt ne sabko sataya hai.

Chahte hain hum apne mann ka krna,
Chahte hain zindagi mei har mukaam pana,
Par waqt se pehle kisne kuch paya hai,
Aur! waqt se kaun lad paya hai.

Kyu nhi poore hote sabke sabhi sapne,
Kyu nhi milte bichhad gaye the jo apne,
Waqt ne sabhi yaado ko dhundhla krwaya hai,
Bhala! waqt se kaun lad paya hai.

Jaante hai sabhi ye baat
Thik ho jata hai sab waqt k sath
Har dukh mei khushiya dhundo har sukh ne yahi sikhaya hai
Ke, waqt se bhala kaun lad paya hai... 

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Two Packets of Chips and a handful Happiness!!


They were sitting with their mom and were munching Lays American Cream and Onion flavor (which is my favorite too) chips when I boarded into metro. To avoid fighting about who is eating more chips, I think, their mother had given them two separate packets. Girl was about 6-7 years and her brother was 4-5 years. Both were very sweet and so adorable that I forgot how tired I was as I worked for extra hours at the office.

Young boy finished eating his packet of chip and raised his packet in air, scattered remaining few pieces of chips on his lap, on his mom's clothes and few on floor of metro too. (May be this is the reason drinking, eating and smoking is prohibited in Delhi Metro, But who cares to follow) Now as he finished eating, he started to tease his sister. Playing with her hairs, stretching her clothes. But actually, he wanted some chips from her packet. It seemed that she was aware of his habits and she didn’t let him take even single chip and ate even those small pieces from her packet which her brother scattered from his packet everywhere in metro. I was watching them fighting and was smiling. Mom was scolding them to sit properly but kids were not in mood to listen to her. Then young girl took out toy mobile from her pocket (yes you guessed it right, the one which plays Chal Chhaiyaan Chhaiyan Chhaiyaan when you press a button) and then boy jumped to snatch it from her hand. She raised her hand as high as she could so that he could not reach. Their mom was trying her best to stop this push-pull fight. But all in vein. Then suddenly she tapped young boy to break his concentration from snatching toy phone and whisper into his ear “here you are” and handed him something invisible into his right palm and closed it quickly and told him to keep it in his shirt’s pocket and tickled him. He laughed and forgot about toy phone and started to play with his sister peacefully, who was seeing all this very curiously.

I smiled back to that lady and congratulated her for the idea of that handful happiness she gave to her son. Only mothers have this magic in their hands. J


Pic of kids with packet of Lays J