Self portrait : charcoal on paper...cant say but I look sad...I burnt it later on.
light the candle & the darkness will vanish

These crazy color makers make such color that it doesn't washes off easily. Just this evening, with left over colors, I jumped into my club's swimming pool. Posthumous discovery - water is now a little red.
It was so abso-f**k**g-lutely awesome. At least now all the colors on me is washed.
Holi is over.

On The Festival Of Colors : The Song Of Holi

तन्तु - प्रेरित गात्र हैं हम,

एक पुतले मात्र हैं हम,

इस जगत की नाटिका के -

क्षणिक भंगुर पात्र हैं हम,

इसलिए हर भूमिका में,

रंग भरे हम भूमिजा मे,

बन सके निरपेक्ष,

तो फिर ,

क्या दुआ क्या बद्दुआ है,

लग रहे हैं समय-बाधित,

आप अपने से पराजित,

चलो आज तम तो भगाएं,

रंगों का धुआं उडाये,

चलो आज होली मनाएं

The darkest corner of soul

It was exactly when the thoughts started to bleed & the emotions started to melt, evaporating an uncanny pungent smoke of barbarism - a seven year old boy somewhere near Delhi was burned alive a few days back by some savages. The reason stated behind so far is that boy was asking them to compensate for his cycle that got broken by their car.

If the human life is this cheap, not even worthy enough of the cost of bicycle then the breed of homo sapiens haven't achieved anything in the due course of its two million years evolution. Violence is being enjoyed. The media using it as mantra these days plying the viewers with a eight foot tall Indian man who is wresting in the land of uncle Sam; I am told his name is Khali & he is adding into the nation's prestige.
Paraphrasing in Thoreau's word - 'truth rather than fame & money', it uncovers the veil that humans of this century wears of being civilized. Nevertheless, the definition of civilization is changed, where the cravings of violence is quenched by not only in practice but also in viewing. The rumble is as much enjoyed in witnessing as in acting.
We are descendants of animals & we always are an animal.

On Women's Day

"Your wives are as a soil to be cultivated unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will"
(Kuran 2:228)
Ibn Ma`sud reported from the Messenger of Allah who said, "A woman is like a private part (sex organ). When she goes out (walking) the devil casts a glance at her (in lust)."
(Al Hadis, Vol 2, p. 692)

"They [women and Sudras] are debarred ... from being competent students of the Veda" (Taittriya Yajur Veda, quoted in Muir III,p.66)
In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her lord is dead to her sons; a woman must never be independent".
(Laws of Manu, V, 147-8).

Adam's role over Eve: "...thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." (Genesis 3:16)
"And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do." A father could sell his daughter as a slave. Even though a male slave is automatically given his freedom after 6 years, a female slave remained a slave forever.
(Exodus 21:7)


taunt of Mara to the Theri Soma that no woman could reach "the high ground of the wise" because she has only the "two-finger knowledge (dvangulapaññâ)", an allusion to cooking where the consistency of the cooked rice is tested by pressing it between the fingers.
(Sutta Pitaka)

Digambaras Jains believe that women are inherently himsic (which is best translated as harmful). This comes partly from a belief that menstrual blood kills micro-organisms living in the female body.The killing of the micro-organisms is said to show that a female body is less non-violent

The Marxist theory of no government lacks some basic provisions for the protection of women's rights, for example, without courts of law to enforce divorce property settlements women would have no legal recourse.

Women try hard to appear superficial & thoughtless. The most refined stimulate a kind of impertinence.
( Friedrich Nietzsche )

It is clear, then, that the female's role in birth is the material one, that this is to found in the menstrual emission and that the menstrual emission is an excretion.
(Aristotle, The Generation Of Animals, 727b31-34)



"You know, China is a very poor country," Mao said. "We don't have much. What we have in excess is women. So if you want them we can give a few of those to you, some tens of thousands."
( As said by Chairman Mao Zedong amid a trade discussion in 1973 with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ; document released by State Department's historian office)




The woman had to be made inferior so that man could feel at ease, so that his ego could feel that now there is no competition with women at all. Man has been torturing her for thousands of years. No society in the world has accepted her as equal to man. No culture of the past has given the woman the same respect as it gives to the man. On the contrary, they have all tried to force her into a subhuman existence. And the reason why the woman did not revolt against such things is simple: again, the same motherhood.

“The woman should be given her rights to grow in her own uniqueness, and that will enhance the whole society. It will enhance man too because man begins his life in the woman's womb.”

(Osho, The Book of Secrets)

May the women breaks free of all bondages, theories, dogmas & political ideologies & attain the blissfulness of her womanhood.

Talking about blog, the much converesed subject since Aamir Khan himself started in this business & getting over three thousand comment on his every post. For a celebrity like him the number of comments does not matter. There are few blogs around which needs mention in my this post.
One blog that I am great fan of is that of Amit Aishwarya Jogi's which intelligently bears a title of 1/2 freedoms. His writings has capacity to shape up a book. Genuinely genius. Another, Tushar Waghela who converting his professional faith has changed his blog to one which contains all his work, he is an artist. Dr. Saibel Farishta has been persuaded back by me to blogging space after his early retirement from orkut & blog. Fortunately, he has renounced his retirement & is back in both.

One Ms. Dolly from Delhi owns a beautiful blog in which she pens down her poem. Ms Ujala from Pune has scribbled down something in her newly formed blog. More awaits.
But one blog is invisible these days. Ms Rainy Chawla had all the content to to write one of the best blogs around. Sad that she doesn't wants to write. But I can see that she started to move her pen & even started to paint, her blog showing the latest entries. & as the Latin phrase puts - cetera desunt - the rest are missing.