Hum kis gali ja rahe hain

Zindagi kuch ajab guzarti hai. Kabhi tez, kabhi aahista, kabhi sukoon, kabhi ghazab guzarti hai.

Things can’t be planned or fore­seen in a man­ner. And the unfore­see–abil­ity of it all brings that essen­tial ele­ment of sur­prise in life with­out which it would be noth­ing but futile. I kept think­ing for years but when it had to hap­pen, it did…how it had to hap­pen, it did. I could have tried to shape the events a bit but in the end its all a mat­ter of divine inter­ven­tion (not using the divine here for The Almighty but some­thing not in my hands). Nonethe­less, I would not choose another course even if life rewinded it for me.

Peace becomes so elu­sive at times and its a tricky busi­ness because the more you seek it and the more you con­sciously try to attain zen, the far­ther it seems. Often when one lets things go, the tran­quil­ity set­tles in. In the end its a mat­ter of find­ing the right bal­ance between the detach­ment and involve­ment. As is a pop­u­lar belief in Hin­duism, one should lead her life like oil floats on sur­face of water; the essence being live in the world with­out los­ing your iden­tity.

Past few days cre­ated enough rip­ples in the calm waters of my life and I did not get much time to do any­thing. I will try catch­ing up with the French Open action in its final week. There are many poems left to be detailed. But one thing I would like to imme­di­ately put down in writ­ing will be about the con­cert I attended y’nite. It fea­tured Atif Aslam, Richa Sharma, Kailash Kher and Amanat Ali. I hadn’t seen any of these per­form live before and it was great fun. Except for Amanat Ali, who is just too young to per­form on stage and had a hard time in get­ting his voice heard, rest of the singers had incred­i­bly pow­er­ful voices and com­pletely enter­tained the audi­ence. Richa Sharma and Kailash Kher enthralled every­one with some beau­ti­ful sufi num­bers. Lastly about Mr. Atif Aslam, he has one hell of a style and is mil­lion times more charis­matic to lis­ten to (oh yeah watch too) live than on cds. I dint expect that big of a fol­low­ing for him but the guy has an amaz­ing stage pres­ence. I would just end with this fan­tas­tic num­ber of him–

Hum kis gali ja rahe hain, hum kis gali ja rahe hain
apna koi thikaana nahi…
armaanon ki anju­man me, besudh hai apni lagan me
apna koi fasaana nahi…

ek ajn­abi sa chehra, rehta hai meri nazar me
ek dard aa ke thehra, din raat dard–e–jigar me
raat din ye kaisi talab si, ye aar­zoo hai ajab si
lekin kisi ko bataana nahi…

Atif Aslam: pic from his offi­cial website

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