http://blog.ghushe.com Even prophets don't have a sense of proportion Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:51:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rock On... watched it, and liked it. Here's the one line review: In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. - Douglas Adams :) http://blog.ghushe.com/2008/09/04/rock-on/ Not many movies have made me blog about them. At least none has made me blog immediately after watching them. This one is surely one of them. I've just returned from the theater... and I'm blogging. "Jaane Tu ... ya Jaane Na" is what I call a "made hit". This is ... http://blog.ghushe.com/2008/07/08/jaane-tu/ Faiz Ahmed Faiz, is better known for his revolutionary fervor and socialist ideal. He can almost be considered the strongest amongst the socialistic revolutionary voices of Pakistan. This was not unusual for poets of his time. We had the likes of Nagarjun in India. What is quite surprising about Faiz, or ... http://blog.ghushe.com/2008/06/20/ham-ke-thehare-ajnabi/ Posting Ghalib after quite sometime today. It is a quite well known ghazal, and represents a state of mind which I relate to quite often. Especially after meeting a few people. :-) बाज़ीचा-ए-अतफ़ाल है दुनिया मेरे आगे, होता है शब-ओ-रोज़ तमाशा मेरे आगे। [बाज़ीचा-ए-अतफ़ाल == child's play] [शब-ओ-रोज़ == day and night] होता है ... http://blog.ghushe.com/2008/06/16/ghalib-again/ Ameer Minai, like Majaaz, was from Lucknow. There was surely something about the city, that made people romantic. :) I got the thought, while listening to one wonderful gazal by Ameer Minai, sung by Jagjit Singh. So here's the gazal: सरकती जाए है रुख़ से नक़ाब आहिस्ता आहिस्ता, निकलता आ रहा है ... http://blog.ghushe.com/2008/06/07/aahista-aahista/ Life, I say, is like, well, Vicks Vaporub.Didn't you expect nonsensical metaphors here? You haven't read my earlier blogs then. Please do. :DOkay, so back to Vick Vaporub. You rub it on your chest, your neck, around your nose, may be if you mistook it for Zandu balm, then on ... http://blog.ghushe.com/2008/02/23/onwards-and-upwards/ Take any random set of friends of mine, and ask them about me. They might give you varied responses. But you are almost are sure to get one response from all of them, that I have absolutely unbelievable capacity to speak utterly confusing but still somehow strangely coherent philosophical blabber.For ... http://blog.ghushe.com/2008/02/20/to-speak-or-not-to-speak/ Last time I talked a bit about Tau. And here's something from Zen: A student went to his meditation teacher and said, "My meditation is horrible! I feel so distracted, or my legs ache, or I'm constantly falling asleep. It's just horrible!""It will pass," the teacher said matter-of-factly.A week later, the ... http://blog.ghushe.com/2007/10/31/it-will-pass/ Someone found my previous post about 'some page' absurd, abuse of blogging, murder of humor and 'useless'. I was thrilled, excited, and felt an immense feeling of achievement. :DThat someone, is a nice and close friend, and well, is quite dumb. Usually it is hard to find intelligent people who ... http://blog.ghushe.com/2007/08/08/being-useless/ This is some page.Somethings are known about it. Such as, it is some page. But, there are some other things which are not known about it. Like, someone must have written it. We don't know who that someone is. There might be someone who might tell us who that someone ... http://blog.ghushe.com/2007/07/10/some-page/