Though it would best be appreciated by someone from Bihar/Jharkhand/UP region, I have written the lyrics and meaning for everyone else’s help.

एक दिन नदी के तीरे जात रहनी धीरे धीरे -3
हम आंखिन देखनी सुंदर शारीरिया आगिया मे जरेला ये राम -2
[One Day, While I was walking leisurely at the river's bank,
I saw, what a beautiful body being burned on pyre]

बंसवा के लेई विमाना, घाटे आइले चारी जाना -2
मुंहवा पे अगिया, अपने जमलका उंहवा धरेला ये राम
[on a bed made of bamboos, four people brought him
and then his own son put the fire on his face !]
हम आंखिन देखनी सुंदर शारीरिया आगिया मे जरेला ये राम -2
[..yeah I saw, what a beautiful body being burned on pyre]

हीत मीत जे जे रहला, एके मुंहे सभे कहला -2
बेटा के जारले बाबूजी के नश्वर तनवा तरले ये राम
[All the friends and relatives whoever were there, All of them said the same words
That, the man's mortal body gets peace only when burned by his son.]
हम आंखिन देखनी सुंदर शारीरिया आगिया मे जरेला ये राम -2
[..yeah I saw, what a beautiful body being burned on pyre]

भला बुरा कर्म कमाई, जेहि लागी कइलो ये भाई -2
तब काहे खातीर, तब काहे खातीर !! उंच नीच मानुष देहिया करेला यह राम !
[Good, Bad, Making money, whatever you did, everyone has this same ending
Why do people still try to prove themselves superior to others]
हम आंखिन देखनी सुंदर शारीरिया आगिया मे जरेला ये राम -2
[..yeah I saw, what a beautiful body being burned on pyre]

कूल्हि भइल जेकरा लागी उहे धईल मुंह पर आगी,
ई सोच के बागी ई सोच के बागी, अंखियाँ से झर झर लोरवा झरेला ये राम !
[For whom I become a coolie, toiled so hard in my life. The same son is torching my body today.
Whenever, I think about it..My eyes gets filled with tear..]
हम आंखिन देखनी सुंदर शारीरिया आगिया मे जरेला ये राम -2
[..yeah I saw, what a beautiful body being burned on pyre]

एक दिन नदी के तीरे जात रहनी धीरे धीरे -3
हम आंखिन देखनी सुंदर शारीरिया आगिया मे जरेला ये राम -2

[One Day, While I was walking leisurely at the river's bank,
I saw, what a beautiful body being burned on pyre]

हमने तुझपे हजारों सितम हैं किए
हमने तुझपे जहां भर के जुल्म किए
हमने सोचा नहीं, तू जो उड़ जाएगी
ये ज़मीन तेरे बिन सूनी रह जाएगी
किसके दम पे सजेगा मेरा अंगना

ओ री चिरईया मेरी चिरईया अंगना मे फिर आ जा रे …

तेरे पंखों मे सारे सितारे जड़ूँ
तेरे चूनर धनक सतरंगी बुनूँ
तेरे काजल मे मैं काली रैना भरून
तेरी मेहंदी मे मैं कच्ची धूप मलूँ
तेरे नैनों सजा दूँ नया सपना

ओ री चिरईया मेरी चिरईया अंगना मे फिर आ जा रे !
ओ री चिरईया नन्ही सी चिड़िया अंगना मे फिर आ जा रे
ओ री चिरईया ।

Had a chance to attend a group discussion session yesterday. Probably the first, I have ever been part of. The subject of the discussion was: Is Small Really Beautiful.

While I was thinking that for such a simple topic people would talk about perception, definition of beauty, the very subjectivity of this definition and how irrelevant anything else is;  be it size, shape, color, odor and anything else for that matter.

But I was in for a shock. The wannabe business students of India, were so keen to insert jargon that the whole discussion became futile and at the end of the day it was like a fish market, where every candidate was selling a new buzz word.

Don’t remember most of the answers but here are some. Judge the value of these answers yourself.

• Small has to be beautiful. See Bharti it started small and how beautiful company it is.
• All small things are beautiful. The computer chips, the electrons all these things are small and beautiful.
• Small can never be beautiful. You see small people, from small places, smaller institutions always perform small and earn small. You need to think big to make big. A beautiful mind thinks big. So big is beautiful. Have you seen A beautiful mind, John Nash? And there was this other movie Life is beautiful …
• Beauty starts small. The big bang was small and see how beautiful universe it has made. The cells, the protozoa, the mitochondria  all important things are small. Small is always beautiful.
• Switzerland is small and beautiful, (some another country name) is also small and beautiful. See big countries, India. Not at all beautiful. Big population, big problem.
• Big is difficult to  manage. Big companies don’t perform well, their share price goes down in the longer turn. One should not invest in big companies.

Sadly most of them forgot the beauty of simplicity in the course of discussion.

Image taken from Dainik Bhaskar

डाकिया डाक लाया, डाकिया डाक लाया

ख़ुशी का पयाम कहीं, कहीं दर्दनाक लाया

डाकिया डाक लाया

Picture Source:
guardianangel.in

क्यों फिक्र गिरने की जब
बादलों को छूने का हौसला है तुम में ,
बस  निडर बनो और बढ़ चलो

नहीं होते परवाज़ सभी के पास,
लग जायेंगे पंख पैरों में ,
उड़ने की चाह  लेकर  बस उड़  चलो |

मंजिल की फिक्र किस बात की
जब रास्ते पर है तुम्हे यकीं
हर मोड़ पर मिलेगी एक नयी मंजिल
यह अभी से मान के चलो |

साथी साथ हो तो अच्छा है
साथ ना मिले तो एकला चलो |
चले हो तुम तो फिर  ठोकर का डर क्यूँ !
चल दिया है तो फिर शान से चलो !!

It was getting dark.

It was alone. It was hungry.

It smelt food. It was across the street.

It waited.

It turned red.

It was empty for a while.

It was courageous. It moved ahead.

It was happy of its feat.

It was half done only.

It tried to move again.

It turned green.

It zoomed past.

It was lucky. It was frightened. It stopped in the middle. It was waiting for a chance.

It was seen by someone. It was shooed back.

It ran for its life. It went hiding in the bushes.

It ends.

Courtesy: DeviantArt

रहना तू है जैसा तू,
थोडा सा दर्द तू थोड़ा सुकून |

थोड़ा सा रेशम, तू हमदम, थोड़ा सा खुरदरा |
कभी दौड़ जाये या लड़ जा या खुशबू से भरा,
तुझे बदलना ना चाहूं , रत्ती भर भी सनम
बिना सजावट, मिलावट, ना ज्यादा ना ही कम

तुझे चाहूं, जैसा है तू
मुझे तेरी बारिश में भीगना, घुल जाना है
तुझे चाहूं, जैसा है तू
मुझे तेरी लपट में जलना राख हो जाना है

[This song from Delhi-6 is currenly ruling my heart. Thanks to Rehman and Prasoon Joshi, for creating such a masterpiece.]