The serendipitious finds of the small world

The things invisible underground feeds all that is visible above to us! Does it apply to the human mind?

For the I have not written anything since January on blog, but facebook took all of it, i guess..

so here is copy paste!! ;) 

tum se izhar-e-mohabbat na kar pate to achha tha…….
kaash dil ki baat na batate to achha tha…………
meri mohabbat ko vo mahaz naam-e-kashish kahte hai……..
kaash unka naam hi na batate to achha tha…………
aaj kahte hai pahli si kashish nahin hai hum mein……..
kaash vo kashish pahle hi na jagate to achha tha………….
fir vo hi hijr-e- mohabbat ka aalam hai………
kaash unki baaton main na aate to achha tha…….
dil khol ke jo rakha saamne to bewafa ka naam mila……..
kaash is se pahle hi mar jaate to achha tha………
vo hi dost,vo hi samaa,vo hi gagan,vo hi ghata………
kaash raaz-e-udasi jaan paate to achha tha………
bhoole to na the lekin maar chuke the ehsaas saare hum……
kaash vo ehsaas fir na jagate to achha tha……….
maangne ko to kuchh nahin….bas ek guzarish hai khuda se……….
humko bhi pyaar k kabil banate to achha tha……….

Things apart...i have been chasing a song from my dream, to which I was 'a watching scene' as third person (in d dream) 
Somebody gave an embrace and sang "tu pyar ka izhar na kar..." and so on...dream dated 11 November 2012

I don't remember the tune, nor any other words but just this... I wake up and type those on my cellphone SMS draft and today I try to find  it on the web and then, here is what I get :

*I have never heard this song before in this lifetime! The scene I saw was also in a valley!!

Mahasamar by Narendra Kohli

I've just started reading Mahasamar by Narendra Kohli which is a seven part rewrite of the Mahabharat. I'm merely 40 pages into the first part but I immediately had things to say so I thought I might say it in a small blog post.

Novelistic Style
Unlike other Hindi literature that I've been reading, Mahasamar follows the pattern of the western novel to the T. This is very different from the works of Acharya Chatursen. Chatursen's mode of writing is 'historical'. He concentrates on who did what, when. Kohli on the other hand, concentrates on character motivation right from the beginning. Specially since it is a retelling that he's doing, he's more concerned about why did a particular character take a particular action than in the details of the action.

Modern Thinking Pattern
One thing that bugs me most about Hindi literature is its right wing leanings. A lot of Hindi literature that I've come across reeks of the RSS brand of thinking. However, in Kohli's novel one immediately begins to see trends of the modern questioning attitude. For example, in the first chapter itself, Kohli is narrating the tale of Shantanu, who made is elder son forgo his right to the throne so that he could marry a girl half his age. Kohli takes up an Indian father-son relationship (the chief characteristic of which is that the son is a 'property' of the father) and dissects is piece by piece. A very interesting read.