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रेत में सर किए

रेत में सर किए आज बैठा हूँ मैं सोचता, मुश्किलें यूँ ही टल जाएंगी ... ख्वाब की खोज में कुछ मिले न मिले हसरतें कुछ मेरी तो निकल जाएंगी
 
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दो बेवकूफ औरतें

मेरे दोस्त कहते हैं मैं अक्सर महिलाओं के ख्याल में रहता हूँ. सच कहते हैं. देखो ना -- हफ्तों बीत गए. जाने कब फूटा था अहमदाबाद में बम. जाने कब आयी थी बिहार में बाढ़. फिर भी दो औरतों को अपने साथ लिए घूम रहा हूँ. पीछा ही नहीं छोड़तीं कमबख्त. एक तो मर भी
 
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पिताजी की कविता

दोस्तों, मेरे पिताजी डाक्टर एस बी मिश्रा एक रिटायर्ड भूगर्भ शास्त्री (geologist) हैं। उनकी किताब "Story of an Ordinary Indian" अगले वर्ष Roli Books द्वारा प्रकाशित होगी। उन्होंने एक कविता लिखी, यहाँ प्रस्तुत है ... यहाँ पढ़ें एक पुरानी पोस्ट : http:/
 
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Life is beautiful: A Kasauli diary

I saw Mars last night. With the naked eye. I saw a barber who works his craft with the pride of a painter or a classical singer. I saw old grandmothers laugh like schoolgirls with two plaits. I waved to the one-year-old child I meet every day on my
 
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टैग: small town
Aug 28 2009 04:32 PM
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जुगनुओं के शहर से एक और ख़त

इक अजनबी है अजनबी शहर को आ गयाहोटल जो लौटा तो लगा कि घर को आ गयातन्हाई से मिलना हुआ कितने बरस के बादकमबख्त को करते रहे कितना तरस के यादकितने ये चेहरे ओढ़ के दिल्ली में खो गयीख़त लिक्खे, पुकारा किये, खामोश हो गयीइक छोटे से शहर में है शरमा के फिर मिली"कैसे
 
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जुगनू भरे रास्ते से एक ख़त

पाँच दिन। पाँच दुनिया। कितना भाग रहा हूँ मैं।पहले दिन द्रास में था, कारगिल से दो घंटे की दूरी पर। १९९९ का युद्धक्षेत्र। दूसरे दिन श्रीनगर में। डल झील के किनारे एक खूबसूरत होटल में असली दुनिया से बहुत दूर। तीसरे दिन दिल्ली वापस, उधार की ज़िन्दगी जीने के
 
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टैग: kasauli
Aug 23 2009 09:45 PM
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कारगिल Kargil

दोस्तों आज ही कारगिल से लौटा, एक हफ्ते से वहां था ... युद्घ के समय वहां दो महीने बिताये थे, उसके बाद अब वापस गया। अजब गुज़रे सात दिन ... मोबाइल फ़ोन, टी वी और असली दुनिया के ग़मों से बहुत दूर ... ये हैं कुछ तस्वीरें ... जो दो महिलाएं घाघरा चोली में हैं
 
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टैग: kargil war
Jul 27 2009 09:40 PM
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My silence, music and Faiz

Forgive my long silence ...Life was trying to catch up with me.I am still walking ahead.Let me break my long silence with the notes of music -- three of my new songs from two soon-to-be-released films ...This is "Tere Bin Kahan Hamse" ... from the
 
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टैग: bollywood
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I met my own slumdog

This weekend in Gujarat, I met a slumdog. Who told me of a millionaire.He was a tea shop waiter at a restaurant on a Gujarat highway. But how did he get to learn to talk in English? How does he know about European countries? How does he know that the
 
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टैग: middle east
Feb 03 2009 12:15 AM
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Inside the Idiot Box of memory

Let me take you to several minutes before 6 p.m. on crisp winter evenings in the 1980s. In a cobweb of narrow Lucknow lanes, my four young uncles would be about to return home on their Bajaj scooters, my tough cookie grandfather would be about to have
 
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टैग: mcd
Jan 24 2009 01:06 AM
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From Shekhar Kapur's blog

Shekhar Kapur, one of India's best known filmmakers worldwide, asked me to write something for his very popular blog and I most happily did. I am reproducing it here.It got some very interesting comments as well from his readers.Shekhar, thanks for
 
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टैग: shekhar kapur
Jan 04 2009 12:04 AM
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नए साल का गीत

इस गीत की कुछ पंक्तियाँ मैंने काफ़ी पहले लिखी थीं ... मुंबई के आतंकवादी हमले के बाद इसे पूरा किया. आपके साथ फिर से बाँट रहा हूँ. इसे एन डी टी वी पर संगीतबद्ध कर के दिखाया जा रहा है. रेत में सर किए यूँ ही बैठा रहा सोचा मुश्किल मेरी ऐसे टल जाएगी और मेर
 
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Radioandmusic.com interview

"Do you think the contribution a lyricist makes often gets overshadowed?Sadly, yes. We are the backroom boys whose names will not be read out on the FM stations, who will barely get any royalties, Most people don't even know who wrote a certain song
 
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टैग: bollywood
Dec 24 2008 12:32 AM
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Time magazine on changing Bollywood

"Neelesh Misra, a journalist and lyricist, whose story based on a young, ailing professor who helps his students mend their lives has been bought by a leading production house, says, "Ten years back if you told a producer you had a story starting with a
 
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टैग: bollywood
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Mission Kashmir

Hi all,I have vanished from sight -- I am in Jammu and Kashmir on a three week journey across the state aclong with two colleagues, a Kashmiri Muslim and a Kashmiri Pandit.I shall post my stores and blogs here as well, but you can also read it here on
 
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Dec 14 2008 11:45 PM
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Mission Kashmir continued

Friends,I am getting back to my blog after several weeks, and I apologise. I am firstly publishing here some of what I wrote, and some pictures I took, on the road trip through Kashmir.Neelesh
 
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टैग: kashmir
Dec 14 2008 11:44 PM
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Mission Kashmir Diary-1

I am an outsider in Kashmir.I have been travelling there for much of my career as a journalist, I am married into a Kashmiri Pandit family, and some of my closest friends are Kashmiris. I love the voices of Kashmir’s celebrated singers Rashid Hafiz and
 
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टैग: kashmiri pandit
Dec 14 2008 11:44 PM
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Mission Kashmir Diary-2

The 65-year-old doctor did not have a pen. But he carried his own paper -- a blank letterhead with his name and qualifications -- as he stepped out of his clinic to kill himself.Outside Balwant Khajuria's clinic in Jammu region's border town, a war was
 
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टैग: srinagar
Dec 14 2008 11:43 PM
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Mission Kashmir Diary-3

The nomad has bought a mobile phone. He now wants a house.Fazal Hussain, the Bakarwal tribe elder with the kohl-laced eyes and henna-dyed beard, clutched the handset like a walkie-talkie in front of him as he told his address to a relative coming by to
 
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टैग: bakarwals
Dec 14 2008 11:39 PM
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Letter from Anonymous

An anonymous person wrote a scathing comment on my blog about something I wrote recently, and I reproduce it here. I wish he/she had revealed his/her name. Though I will respond to the comments, but I think more than attacking me personally it raises an
 
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Oct 30 2008 01:36 PM
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Let this picture do the talking

The rescuer had one last food packet in his hands, and the entire village was hungry.As Commandant Daniel Adhikari watched, a desperate woman leaped into the waters to grab it. But another man jumped in as well, the two fighting over the bag as rescuers
 
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टैग: bihar
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Picture Postcards

Friends,I take so many pictures and I realised I don't share them here enough. Part of the reason was that I have been agonising over the logistics -- will people like them? Will they think they are trash? And they don't, will my intellectual property be
 
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टैग: mumbai
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