Joy, tradition and business

Traditionally there are three major events in a person's life when community/ family comes together and money is spent as per the (perceived) status of the person/ family under consideration

1. Birth of a child and ensuing celebrations (so many social events)
2. Marriage, perhaps the biggest of the three, big fat indian wedding (perhaps because two families are involved)
3. Death; yes even death is such a good business proposition for many starting from Pandit to the halwaai

Rahat Indori @Mushaira

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XroXS-k_XOw

शाखों से टूट जाएँ वो पत्ते नही हैं हम
आंधी से कोई कह दे की औकात में रहे|

कभी महक की तरह हम गुलो से उड़ते हैं
कभी धुए की तरह पर्वतो से उड़ते हैं
ये कैंचियाँ हमें उड़ने से खाख रोकेगी
की हम परो से नही हौसलों से उड़ते हैं

मरहबा सलाम क्या कहने हैं

nice nazm by Rahat Indori Sahib

कितनी पी कैसे कटी रात मुझे होश नही
रात के साथ गई बात मुझे होश नही

मुझको ये भी नही मालुम की जाना है कहाँ
थाम ले कोई हाथ मुझे होश नही

आंसुओ और शराबो में गुज़र है अब तो
मैंने कब देखी थी बरसात मुझे होश नही

जाने क्या टुटा है पैमाना या की दिल मेरा
बिखरे बिखरे हैं ख्यालात मुझे होश नही


the last couplet is just awesome

http://www.urdupoetry.com/rindori03.html

funny shayari

where is the party tonight????? get the answer to this poignant question!!!!!

Ig Nobel awards for stupid science

The Ig Nobels, or Igs, are an annual exercise in irreverence that celebrate research that “cannot, or should not, be repeated”. They are given to scientists whose results first make people laugh, and then make them think.
The ceremony took place at Harvard University on Thursday, with the coveted prizes handed out by real Nobel laureates. This year’s recipients were allowed no more than 60 seconds to deliver their acceptance speech, a time limit enforced by an eight-year-old girl.

Mathematics prize: Awarded to Gideon Gono, governor of Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank, for giving people a simple way of dealing with a wide range of numbers. Mr. Gono ordered his bank to print notes with denominations ranging from one cent to one hundred trillion dollars.

http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article28106.ece

William Butler Yeats

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

I had first heard these lines in a movie named Equilibrium....the last line is just so awesome

Shair by Late Munir Niazi Sahab

ख़याल जिसका था मुझे, ख्याल में मिला मुझे
सवाल का जबाब भी, सवाल में मिला मुझे|

किसी को अपनी अमल का हिसाब क्या देते
सवाल सारे ग़लत थे, जबाब क्या देते|

अमल = Actions