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यादों के झूले हैं, झूलने दो मुझे, इन में तुम ही तुम हो, खेलने दो मुझे.. आशाओं कि लहरें हैं, उठने दो मुझे, इन में तुम्हारी ही प्यास हैं, बहने दो मुझे.. सपनों कि बस्ती हैं, रहने दो मुझे, इनमे तुम्हारा ही चेहरा हैं, देखने दो मुझे.. काश.. काश , यह जिन्दगी एक सपना होता, तो तुम मेरे साथ ही होते, बात मेरे बस में होती, आँखें न कभी मैंने खोली होती ..

Today in the morning, one of the associates in my department called me for his birthday celebration. As he is an associate i had worked with during my project, i was happy to be present at the celebration. wished him warmly. he recently had told me that he had become a father, so was just thinking that it must be quite a happy atmosphere back home. At 4 PM, while leaving, he came to wish me good bye. I casually asked him as to how he was going to celebrate the day at home. his answer humbles me. He said," आज मेरा जन्मदिन नहीं हैं.. मेरा जन्मदिन अप्रील में हैं." I was rather confused and detecting that on my face, he continued, " वो क्या हैं ना मेरे माथा पिता अनपढ़ थे.. और यह डेट मेरे स्चूल के teacher ने दर्ज किया हैं.. वो भी १९८० के बदले १९८१ लिख दिया हैं.." and he smiled that smile of honesty. i smiled too, my mind wondering how many such people in this world exist who don't even know the exact day of their birth. Ah! i just imagined myself there and knew i wou...

From the time i read the book, The world is flat by Thomas L. Friedman, i have been tempted to think otherwise. The world is flat tries to explain the reasons behind the changes that have taken place around us, in the last decade. We have all been a part of these changes but probably have never given a thought to the changes nor to the reasons for their occurrence. Now, what do i mean by 'change'? The simplest way of putting it would be that Today we as an individual are able to compete, challenge & collaborate with any other individual in any part of the world.or in other words globalization has set in like never before. The author explains the reasons behind the sudden, high pace of globalization. The reasons being economic liberalization policies, invention of internet,web browsers, work flow software, offshoring, outsourcing,networking,open source,supply chaining and so on. These have been dealt with chronologically and have been explained with numerous anecdotes unra...

Quite recently i saw this Hindi movie, 'rajnigandha', for the second time. it stars the placid, now forgotten vidya sinha and the effervescent, now director amol palekar. a simple story-line depicted by basu chaterjee. so simple that we might miss the complexity intended. The first time i missed it. I must have just run into the teenage years then. the only reason i might have watched it is the still hummable and soulful songs in the movie. The present, shows deepa (vidya sinha) engaged to sanjay (amol). theirs was a boy-meets-girl at university love story. but now deepa wishes for more passion in the romance while she listens to sanjay's work related woes. he is due for a coveted promotion and sees nothing more important for them at present. nevertheless he charms her every evening by bringing in a bunch of her favorite flowers, rajnigandha, which fills her heart with the fragrance of his love. a job interview takes deepa to Bombay. a stranger in the city now, but previous...