Gulzar

मुझको भी तरकीब सिखा कोई यार जुलाहे अक्सर तुझको देखा है कि ताना बुनते जब कोई तागा टूट गया या ख़तम हुआ फिर से बाँध के और सिरा कोई जोड़ के उसमें आगे बुनने लगते हो तेरे इस ताने में लेकिन इक भी गाँठ गिरह बुनतर की देख नहीं सकता है कोई मैंने तो इक बार बुना था एक ही रिश्ता...

Tagore

If You Did Not If you didn’t fill my soul with love Why did you fill the morning sky with song? Why the garland of stars, Why the bed of flowers? And the south wind whispering secrets in my ear? If you didn’t fill my soul with love Why does the sky gaze at me so? And...

You Have A Good Day Now; I’ll Be Much Obliged!

It was sometime in 2001, in dry and dusty Dallas where I was recently posted, to handle HR for the US arm of my Indian Software Organization. The hysteria of y2k was settling down and 9/11 had not yet happened. Feeling lonely, unhappy and missing home, I had not quite...