Monday, November 19, 2012

शनिवार की सुबहें / बुरी स्मृतियों के गड़े मुर्दे

आओ श्रम के लिए, सेहत के लिए, हम करें रोज़ व्यायाम
देखे हमको सारी दुनिया, हम करें कुछ ऐसे काम

<*पेंपें-पेंपें-पें, पेंपें-पेंपें-पें, पें... पेंपें-पेंपें-पेंपें
पेंपें-पेंपें-पें, पेंपें-पेंपें-पें,
पें... पेंपें-पेंपें-पें*>

हम हैं नवयुग के निर्माता, काँधों पर बोझ उठाना है
हम हैं नवयुग के निर्माता, काँधों पर बोझ उठाना है
आगे बढ़ने की चाहत, पीछे ना कदम हटाना है
आगे बढ़ने की चाहत, पीछे ना कदम हटाना है
हम हैं मंज़िल के दीवाने, कर पड़े हैं हम अभियान
देखे हमको सारी दुनिया, हम करें कुछ ऐसे काम

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कुछ यातनाएं अकेले समेटे रखना उचित नहीं है। उन्हें मित्रों के साथ बांटने से (सुनने में आया है) प्यार बढ़ता है।

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

For Chrissy :P

And so it was in the year of the Great Emancipation that the Ministry of Robot Affairs banned the use of sarcasm in the workplace.

Thursday, November 01, 2012

The Loosest, Baggiest Monster of All

Underworld is a big, sprawling, savagely intelligent, breathtakingly ambitious and unbelievably beautiful work of art that confirms Don DeLillo's status as probably the best American novelist alive. 

It is the book David Foster Wallace would've wanted to write; but could never - despite his exceptional artistic wizardry and flashy, pyrotechnic prose. The reason has something to do with the difference between brilliant (which David Foster Wallace undeniably was) and truly deep (which Don DeLillo is and DFW wasn't - though he did sometime veer dangerously close to it).

It is a nonlinear (both in time and in narrative structure) fragmented-though-deeply-interconnected tale of several different characters whose lives are tied together by the ball that starred in the shot heard around the world and its journey through their lives; and another earth shaking development that unfolded on the same day - the successful atomic bomb test of the Soviet Union - which also affects directly, as well as indirectly, the destinies of the numerous characters in the book.
  
Don DeLillo has given us in Underworld, a true masterpiece, whose incalculable artistic merit confirms his status as probably the greatest novelist of our age - a fabulous, fabulous achievement indeed.