Saturday, June 21, 2008

Weekend ride to Mahabalipuram

Santosh has recorded this video of one of the weekend rides to Mahabalipuram on Royal Enfield Machismo on May 13, 2007 with his Nokia N72 camera phone. The road is the famous East Coast Road (ECR). I suddenly thought that I should share it here.


At the same time I am getting inspired about going on a early morning ride. :) Let me see if I can manage to go.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

raahi

राही...

आज फिर मौसम सर्द है,
फैला हुआ कोहरा है,
दिल का वह पहचाना सा दर्द,
आज भी गहरा है।

फिर गुजर रहा हूँ, उन गलियों से,
दिला रही हैं याद, जो मुझे,
वे चंद पल,
जिन
में खो दिया था मैं ने ख़ुद को,
वह डगर जहाँ से, देखी थी मैं ने झांकी,
एक उजले सूरज की।

अब पहूँच गया हूँ,
गली के उस पार जहाँ मौजूद है,
अभी तक एक गवाह,
इस बरगद की छाँव में,
आसमान छूती शाखाओं तले,
हुआ था मुझे, एक धुंधला एहसास।
मिल गयी थी वह मंजील,
थी जिस की, कब से तलाश।

आज चलते हुए जब मैं,
गुजर चुका हूँ, उस बरगद के पास से
क्यों लगता हैं, कि कोई पुकार रहा है।
और मुझे पूछ रहा है,
'क्या यह वही जिंदगी है?
जो हुआ करती थी पहले,
जब लगते थे दिल में
हर पल उम्मीद के मेले?
और तब जब तूम इस दर्द से
थे अनजान, और अकेले ...'

तभी सुनाई दे रही है,
कही से एक आवाज,
जो बता रही है मुझे कि
वह तो बात थी अतीत की,
तूम तो कर रहे थे सफर।
राही का गुमराह होना,
यह दोष नहीं तेरा है,

दिला दे ख़ुद को, यह एहसास अब,
आज भी, यह सफर अधूरा है।

दोपहर की धूप में भटकता हुआ,
शाम से पहले,
पहूँच पाऊं अपनी मंजील तक,
यही हौसला मेरा है।
पर मुझे पता है,
दिल का वह पहचाना सा दर्द
आज भी गहरा है।

***

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Divinity in Disguise

From Picnic to Ann...


One day I found myself alongside an Eagle,
There with ordinary creatures he was to mingle.

Soon I found that the spite had not touched him,
Nor his gleaming eyes had become pale and dim.

He had to share 'the small world' with so many others.
But he asked me to click my device and squeaked, "Who bothers!"

I soon noticed that he had managed to keep his grace.
He was the divinity in disguise, and nothing else!

***


Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Sarvatmaka Sarveshwara

An humble attempt to sing Bhairavi to conclude a musical program by Marathi Mitra Mandal IIT Madras at Maharashtra Mandal Chennai during Ganeshotsav 2006. Shri. Rajendra Sakhale accompanying on tabla.

सर्वात्मका सर्वेश्वरा, गंगाधरा शिवसुंदरा।
जे जे जगी जगते तया, माझे म्हणा करूणा करा॥
आदित्य या तिमिरात व्हा, ऋग्वेद या हॄदयात व्हा।
स्रुजनत्व द्या, द्या आर्यता, अनुदारिता दुरिताहरा॥
सर्वात्मका सर्वेश्वरा॥



English Translation of Sarvatmaka Sarveshwara

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

kase saratil saye - Sandeep Khare

कसे सरतील सये, माझ्याविना दिस तुझे सरताना आणि सांग सलतील ना?
गुलाबाची फुलं दोनं, रोज रात्री डोळ्यावर मुसू मुसू पाणी सांग भरतील ना?

पावसाच्या धारा धारा, मोजताना दिस सारा, रितेरिते मन तुझे उरे,
ओठभर हसे हसे, उरातून वेडेपिसे, खोल खोल कोण आंत झुरे.
आता जरा अळीमिळी, तुझी माझी व्यथा निळी, सोसताना सुखावून हसशील ना?
गुलाबाची फुलं दोनं, रोज रात्री डोळ्यावर मुसू मुसू पाणी सांग भरतील ना?

कोण तुझ्या सौधातून, उभे असे सामसूम, चिडीचूप सुनसान दिवा,
आता सांज ढळेलच, आणि पुन्हा छळेलच, नभातून गोरा चांदवा.
चांदण्यांचे कोटी कण, आठवांचे ओले सण, रोज रोज नीजभर भरतील ना?
गुलाबाची फुलं दोनं, रोज रात्री डोळ्यावर मुसू मुसू पाणी सांग भरतील ना?

इथे दूर देशी, माझ्या सुन्या खिडकीच्यापाशी, झडे सर कांचभर तडा,
तूच तूच तूझ्या तूझ्या, तूझी तूझी तूझे तूझे, सारा सारा तुझा तुझा सदा.
पडे माझ्या वाटेतून, आणि मग काट्यातून, जातांनाही पायभर मखमल ना?
गुलाबाची फुलं दोनं, रोज रात्री डोळ्यावर मुसू मुसू पाणी सांग भरतील ना?

आता नाही बोलायाचे, जरा जरा जगायाचे माळूनिया अबोलीची फुले,
देहभर हलू देत विजेवर डुलू देत, तुझ्या माझ्या विरहाचे झुले.
जरा घन झुरू दे ना, वारा गुदमरू दे ना, तेंव्हा मग धरा सारी भिजवेल ना?
गुलाबाची फुलं दोनं, रोज रात्री डोळ्यावर मुसू मुसू पाणी सांग भरतील ना?

शब्द : संदीप खरे

Monday, June 02, 2008

Picnic to Anna Zoological Park

We visited Anna Zoological Park yesterday. It was a fine Sunday morning. Arignar Anna Zoological Park is situated at Vandalur which is 32 Km away from the metropolitan city of Chennai on the GST Road (NH-45). On the Eastern side of the road is the zoo over a sprawling area of 602 ha. Others with me were Alok, Dinesh, Harshal, Sujit, Chintamani, Renu and one more Prasad. It was an enjoyable experience. I took some photographs and a few times managed to get to photographed also. Yesterday an Indian Sea Gull caught fancy of my camera. It turned out to a good shootout. I have uploaded all these the photos on Picasa Web Albums.

I was listening to songs of Pt. Vasantrao Deshpande, his grandson Rahul and Pt. Jitendra Abhisheki on Saturday night. 'bagaLyaachi maaLaphule', 'surat piyaa ki na chhin bisauraayi', 'sarvaatmakaa sarveshwaraa' and 'kaataa rute kuNaalaa' were among them. These songs kept playing in the my mind all the time we were in the zoo. And, in fact, they are being played on my computer even now. The mood was enlivened as Renu initiated gaaNyaachyaa bhendyaa after we boarded local train back to the city.

This zoo has some thing special in it. It was my third visit there, still each time the zoo has managed to make me immensely happy.


Picnic to Anna Zoological Park Vandalur


How to reach there:
Vandalur is about 8 km from Tambaram and about 33 km from Chennai Central Railway Station. The zoo is well connected to the city by road and rail. There is direct service from various parts of the city to Vandalur / Arignar Anna Zoological Park bus stop. Also from city all buses going to Guduvancheri pass through Vandalur stop. For coming by local train, train going to Chengalapttu stops at Vandalur Railway station which is about 1 km from the zoo gate or you may come by Chennai Beach to Tambaram local train, get down at Tambaram. From Tambaram you can take another local traint to Chengalapattu or take a bus to the zoo. The map on http://www.aazoopark.gov.in/directions.html will help you locate the place.

Zoo Timing: 9 am to 6 pm.
I would strongly advise you to reach the zoo entrance by 9 am itself so that you can have enough time to walk around the zoo leisurely. There is a toy-car ride available too. I won't advise you to take Lion Safari as, firstly, it will take a lot of your time to book your seats, and secondly, it will bring you back within a few minutes after visiting just a single place leaving you unsatisfied, well, most probably.