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Karpur gauram karunaavtaaram

2010-03-09T02:43:00.001-08:00

Karpur gauram karunaavtaaram,
Sansaar saaram bhujagendrahaaram
Sadaa vasantam hridyaarvinde,
Bhavam bhavaani sahitam namaami
Mangalam bhagvaan vishunu,
Mangalam garud dhwajah
mangalam pundarikakshah,
Mangalaaytno hari
Sarva mangal maangalye,
Shive sarvaarth saadhike
Sharnye tryambake gauri,
Naaraayni namo stute
Yaani kaani cha paapaani gnaataa gnaat kritaanicha
Taami sarvaani nashyanti pradkshinaayaam pade-pade

केसरि से बरन सुबरन बरन जीत्यौ : बिहारी

2010-03-08T03:46:00.000-08:00

केसरि से बरन सुबरन बरन जीत्यौ

बरनीं न जाइ अवरन बै गई।

कहत बिहारी सुठि सरस पयूष हू तैं,

उष हू तैं मीठै बैनन बितै गई।

भौंहिनि नचाइ मृदु मुसिकाइ दावभाव

चचंल चलाप चब चेरी चितै कै गई।

लीने कर बेली अलबेली सु अकेली तिय

जाबन कौं आई जिय जावन सौं दे गई।।

जोगीरा भोजपुरी

2010-03-08T03:40:00.000-08:00

१.
दानापुर दरियाव किनारा, गोलघर निशानी
लाट साहेब ने किला बनाया, क्या गंगा जल पानी
जोगी जी वाह वाह, जोगी जी सार रा रा।
दिल्ली देखो ढाका देखो, शहर देखो कलकत्ता।
एक पेड़ तो ऐसा देखो, फर के ऊपर पत्ता,
जोगी जी वाह वाह, जोगी जी सार रा रा।
कौन काठ के बनी खड़ौआ, कौन यार बनाया है,
कौन गुरु की सेवा कीन्हो, कौन खड़ौआ पाया,
चनन काठ के बनी खड़ौआ, बढ़यी यार बनाया हो,
हम गुरु की सेवा कीन्हा, हम खड़ौआ पाया है,
जागी जी वाह वाह, जोगी जी सारा रा रा।

२.
किसके बेटा राजा रावण किसके बेटा बाली
किसके बेटा हनुमान जी जे लंका जारी, फिर देख चली जा।
किसकी बेटी तारा मंदोदरी किसकी बेटी सीता ?
किसके बेटा राम-लछुमन चित्रकूट पर जीता ?
किसके मारे अर्जुन मर गए किसके मारे भीम ?
किसके मारे बालि मर गये, कहाँ रहा सुग्रीव ?

उत्तर
१. विसेश्रवा के राजा रावण बाणासुर का बाली
पवन के बेटा हनुमान जी, ओहि लंका के जारी

२. कृष्ण मारे आर्जुन मर गए कृष्ण के मारे भीम
राम के मारे बालि मर गए लड़ता था सुग्रीव।

३. कौन जिला का रहने वाला, क्या बस्ती का नाम ?
कौन जात का छोकड़ा बता तो अपना नाम ? फिर देख चली जा।
धरती माँ का जनम बता दो, कौन देव का टीका
कौन गुरु का सेवा किया, कहाँ जोगीरा सीखा ? फिर देख चली जा।
क्या चीज का रेल बना है, क्या चीज का पहिया ?
क्या चीज का टिकट बना है, क्या चीज का रुपैया ? फिर देख चली जा।

४. कौन देस से राजा आया कौन देस से रानी ?
कौन देस से जोगी आया मारा उलटा बानी ? फिर देख चली जा।
काहे खातिर राजा रूसा काहे खातिर रानी ?
काहे खातिर जोगी रूसा काहे मारा बानी ? फिर देख चली जा।

रक्तस्नान » हरिवंशराय बच्चन

2010-03-08T03:34:00.000-08:00

पृथ्वी रक्तस्नान करेगी!

ईसा बड़े हृदय वाले थे,
किंतु बड़े भोले-भाले थे,
चार बूँद इनके लोहू की इसका ताप हरेगी?
पृथ्वी रक्तस्नान करेगी!

आग लगी धरती के तन में,
मनुज नहीं बदला पाहन में,
अभी श्यामला, सुजला, सुफला ऐसे नहीं मरेगी।
पृथ्वी रक्तस्नान करेगी!

संवेदना अश्रु ही केवल,
जान पड़ेगा वर्षा का जल,
जब मानवता निज लोहू का सागर दान करेगी।
पृथ्वी रक्तस्नान करेगी!

हमन है इश्क मस्ताना : कबीर

2010-03-08T03:29:00.000-08:00

हमन है इश्क मस्ताना, हमन को होशियारी क्या ?

रहें आजाद या जग से, हमन दुनिया से यारी क्या ?

जो बिछुड़े हैं पियारे से, भटकते दर-ब-दर फिरते,

हमारा यार है हम में हमन को इंतजारी क्या ?

खलक सब नाम अनपे को, बहुत कर सिर पटकता है,

हमन गुरनाम साँचा है, हमन दुनिया से यारी क्या ?

न पल बिछुड़े पिया हमसे न हम बिछड़े पियारे से,

उन्हीं से नेह लागी है, हमन को बेकरारी क्या ?

कबीरा इश्क का माता, दुई को दूर कर दिल से,

जो चलना राह नाज़ुक है, हमन सिर बोझ भारी क्या ?

सुदामा चरित

2010-02-25T02:22:00.000-08:00

विप्र सुदामा बसत हैं, सदा आपने धाम।
भीख माँगि भोजन करैं, हिये जपत हरि-नाम॥
ताकी घरनी पतिव्रता, गहै वेद की रीति।
सलज सुशील सुबुद्धि अति, पति सेवा सौं प्रीति॥
कह्यौ सुदामा एक दिन, कृस्न हमारे मित्र।
करत रहति उपदेस गुरु, ऐसो परम विचित्र॥

(सुदामा की पत्नी)
लोचन-कमल, दुख मोचन, तिलक भाल,
स्रवननि कुंडल, मुकुट माथ हैं।
ओढ़े पीत बसन, गरे में बैजयंती माल,
संख-चक्र-गदा और पद्म लिये हाथ हैं।
विद्व नरोत्तम संदीपनि गुरु के पास,
तुम ही कहत हम पढ़े एक साथ हैं।
द्वारिका के गये हरि दारिद हरैंगे पिय,
द्वारिका के नाथ वै अनाथन के नाथ हैं॥

(सुदामा)
सिच्छक हौं, सिगरे जग को तिय, ताको कहाँ अब देति है सिच्छा।
जे तप कै परलोक सुधारत, संपति की तिनके नहि इच्छा॥
मेरे हिये हरि के पद-पंकज, बार हजार लै देखि परिच्छा।
औरन को धन चाहिये बावरि, ब्राह्मन को धन केवल भिच्छा॥

(सुदामा की पत्नी)
कोदों, सवाँ जुरितो भरि पेट, तौ चाहति ना दधि दूध मठौती।
सीत बितीतत जौ सिसियातहिं, हौं हठती पै तुम्हें न हठौती॥
जो जनती न हितू हरि सों तुम्हें, काहे को द्वारिकै पेलि पठौती।
या घर ते न गयौ कबहूँ पिय, टूटो तवा अरु फूटी कठौती॥

(सुदामा)
छाँड़ि सबै जक तोहि लगी बक, आठहु जाम यहै झक ठानी।
जातहि दैहैं, लदाय लढ़ा भरि, भरि लैहैं लदाय यहै जिय जानी॥
पाँउ कहाँ ते अटारि अटा, जिनको विधि दीन्हि है टूटि सी छानी।
जो पै दरिद्र लिखो है ललाट तौ, काहु पै मेटि न जात अयानी॥

(सुदामा की पत्नी)
विप्र के भगत हरि जगत विदित बंधु,
लेत सब ही की सुधि ऐसे महादानि हैं।
पढ़े एक चटसार कही तुम कैयो बार,
लोचन अपार वै तुम्हैं न पहिचानि हैं।
एक दीनबंधु कृपासिंधु फेरि गुरुबंधु,
तुम सम कौन दीन जाकौ जिय जानि हैं।
नाम लेते चौगुनी, गये तें द्वार सौगुनी सो,
देखत सहस्त्र गुनी प्रीति प्रभु मानि हैं॥

(सुदामा)
द्वारिका जाहु जू द्वारिका जाहु जू, आठहु जाम यहै झक तेरे।
जौ न कहौ करिये तो बड़ौ दुख, जैये कहाँ अपनी गति हेरे॥
द्वार खरे प्रभु के छरिया तहँ, भूपति जान न पावत नेरे।
पाँच सुपारि तै देखु बिचार कै, भेंट को चारि न चाउर मेरे॥

यह सुनि कै तब ब्राह्मनी, गई परोसी पास।
पाव सेर चाउर लिये, आई सहित हुलास॥
सिद्धि करी गनपति सुमिरि, बाँधि दुपटिया खूँट।
माँगत खात चले तहाँ, मारग वाली बूट॥

दीठि चकचौंधि गई देखत सुबर्नमई,
एक तें सरस एक द्वारिका के भौन हैं।
पूछे बिन कोऊ कहूँ काहू सों न करे बात,
देवता से बैठे सब साधि-साधि मौन हैं।
देखत सुदामै धाय पौरजन गहे पाँय,
कृपा करि कहौ विप्र कहाँ कीन्हौ गौन हैं।
धीरज अधीर के हरन पर पीर के,
बताओ बलवीर के महल यहाँ कौन हैं?

(श्रीकृष्ण का द्वारपाल)
सीस पगा न झगा तन में प्रभु, जानै को आहि बसै केहि ग्रामा।
धोति फटी-सी लटी दुपटी अरु, पाँय उपानह की नहिं सामा॥
द्वार खड्यो द्विज दुर्बल एक, रह्यौ चकिसौं वसुधा अभिरामा।
पूछत दीन दयाल को धाम, बतावत आपनो नाम सुदामा॥

बोल्यौ द्वारपाल सुदामा नाम पाँड़े सुनि,
छाँड़े राज-काज ऐसे जी की गति जानै को?
द्वारिका के नाथ हाथ जोरि धाय गहे पाँय,
भेंटत लपटाय करि ऐसे दुख सानै को?
नैन दोऊ जल भरि पूछत कुसल हरि,
बिप्र बोल्यौं विपदा में मोहि पहिचाने को?
जैसी तुम करौ तैसी करै को कृपा के सिंधु,
ऐसी प्रीति दीनबंधु! दीनन सौ माने को?

ऐसे बेहाल बेवाइन सों पग, कंटक-जाल लगे पुनि जोये।
हाय! महादुख पायो सखा तुम, आये इतै न किते दिन खोये॥
देखि सुदामा की दीन दसा, करुना करिके करुनानिधि रोये।
पानी परात को हाथ छुयो नहिं, नैनन के जल सौं पग धोये॥

(श्री कृष्ण)
कछु भाभी हमको दियौ, सो तुम काहे न देत।
चाँपि पोटरी काँख में, रहे कहौ केहि हेत॥

आगे चना गुरु-मातु दिये त, लिये तुम चाबि हमें नहिं दीने।
श्याम कह्यौ मुसुकाय सुदामा सों, चोरि कि बानि में हौ जू प्रवीने॥
पोटरि काँख में चाँपि रहे तुम, खोलत नाहिं सुधा-रस भीने।
पाछिलि बानि अजौं न तजी तुम, तैसइ भाभी के तंदुल कीने॥

देनो हुतौ सो दै चुके, बिप्र न जानी गाथ।
चलती बेर गोपाल जू, कछू न दीन्हौं हाथ॥
वह पुलकनि वह उठ मिलनि, वह आदर की भाँति।
यह पठवनि गोपाल की, कछू ना जानी जाति॥
घर-घर कर ओड़त फिरे, तनक दही के काज।
कहा भयौ जो अब भयौ, हरि को राज-समाज॥
हौं कब इत आवत हुतौ, वाही पठ्यौ ठेलि।
कहिहौं धनि सौं जाइकै, अब धन धरौ सकेलि॥

वैसेइ राज-समाज बने, गज-बाजि घने, मन संभ्रम छायौ।
वैसेइ कंचन के सब धाम हैं, द्वारिके के महिलों फिरि आयौ।
भौन बिलोकिबे को मन लोचत सोचत ही सब गाँव मँझायौ।
पूछत पाँड़े फिरैं सबसों पर झोपरी को कहूँ खोज न पायौ॥

कनक-दंड कर में लिये, द्वारपाल हैं द्वार।
जाय दिखायौ सबनि लैं, या है महल तुम्हार॥

टूटी सी मड़ैया मेरी परी हुती याही ठौर,
तामैं परो दुख काटौं कहाँ हेम-धाम री।
जेवर-जराऊ तुम साजे प्रति अंग-अंग,
सखी सोहै संग वह छूछी हुती छाम री।
तुम तो पटंबर री ओढ़े किनारीदार,
सारी जरतारी वह ओढ़े कारी कामरी।
मेरी वा पंडाइन तिहारी अनुहार ही पै,
विपदा सताई वह पाई कहाँ पामरी?

कै वह टूटि-सि छानि हती कहाँ, कंचन के सब धाम सुहावत।
कै पग में पनही न हती कहँ, लै गजराजुहु ठाढ़े महावत॥
भूमि कठोर पै रात कटै कहाँ, कोमल सेज पै नींद न आवत।
कैं जुरतो नहिं कोदो सवाँ प्रभु, के परताप तै दाख न भावत॥

सुदामा चरित / नरोत्तमदास

कारवाँ गुज़र गया

2010-02-25T02:18:00.000-08:00

स्वप्न झरे फूल से,
मीत चुभे शूल से,
लुट गये सिंगार सभी बाग़ के बबूल से,
और हम खड़ेखड़े बहार देखते रहे।
कारवाँ गुज़र गया, गुबार देखते रहे!

नींद भी खुली न थी कि हाय धूप ढल गई,
पाँव जब तलक उठे कि ज़िन्दगी फिसल गई,
पातपात झर गये कि शाख़शाख़ जल गई,
चाह तो निकल सकी न, पर उमर निकल गई,
गीत अश्क बन गए,
छंद हो दफन गए,
साथ के सभी दिऐ धुआँधुआँ पहन गये,
और हम झुकेझुके,
मोड़ पर रुकेरुके
उम्र के चढ़ाव का उतार देखते रहे।
कारवाँ गुज़र गया, गुबार देखते रहे।

क्या शबाब था कि फूलफूल प्यार कर उठा,
क्या सुरूप था कि देख आइना सिहर उठा,
इस तरफ ज़मीन उठी तो आसमान उधर उठा,
थाम कर जिगर उठा कि जो मिला नज़र उठा,
एक दिन मगर यहाँ,
ऐसी कुछ हवा चली,
लुट गयी कलीकली कि घुट गयी गलीगली,
और हम लुटेलुटे,
वक्त से पिटेपिटे,
साँस की शराब का खुमार देखते रहे।
कारवाँ गुज़र गया, गुबार देखते रहे।

हाथ थे मिले कि जुल्फ चाँद की सँवार दूँ,
होठ थे खुले कि हर बहार को पुकार दूँ,
दर्द था दिया गया कि हर दुखी को प्यार दूँ,
और साँस यूँ कि स्वर्ग भूमी पर उतार दूँ,
हो सका न कुछ मगर,
शाम बन गई सहर,
वह उठी लहर कि दह गये किले बिखरबिखर,
और हम डरेडरे,
नीर नयन में भरे,
ओढ़कर कफ़न, पड़े मज़ार देखते रहे।
कारवाँ गुज़र गया, गुबार देखते रहे!

माँग भर चली कि एक, जब नई नई किरन,
ढोलकें धुमुक उठीं, ठुमक उठे चरनचरन,
शोर मच गया कि लो चली दुल्हन, चली दुल्हन,
गाँव सब उमड़ पड़ा, बहक उठे नयननयन,
पर तभी ज़हर भरी,
गाज एक वह गिरी,
पुँछ गया सिंदूर तारतार हुई चूनरी,
और हम अजानसे,
दूर के मकान से,
पालकी लिये हुए कहार देखते रहे।
कारवाँ गुज़र गया, गुबार देखते रहे।

- गोपालदास नीरज

KADAMB KA PED

2010-02-25T01:40:00.001-08:00

YEH KADAMB KA PED AGAR MAA, HOTA YAMUNA TEERE,
MAIN BHI US PAR BAITH KANHIYA,BANTA DHEERE,
DHEERE...
LE DETI YADI BANSURI ,TUM DO PAISE WALI,
KISI TARAH NEECHE HO JATI YE KADAMB KI DALI,

TUMHEIN NAHI KUCH KEHTA,PAR MAIN,
CHUPKE CHUPKE AATA,
US NEECHI DALI SE AMMA, UNCHE PE CHAD JATA....

WAHIN BAITH PHIR ,BADE MAJE SE,
MAIN BANSURI BAJATA,
AMMA AMMA KEH TUMHEIN BANSI KE,
SWAR MEIN BULATA....

SUN MERI BANSI KO MAA TUM ITNI,
KHUSH HO JATI,
MUJHE DEKHNE KAAM CHOR KAR,
TUM BAHAR TAK AATI....

TUMKO AATA DEKH BANSURI RAKH ,
MAIN CHUP HO JATA,
PATTON MEIN CHIPKAR DHEERE SE,
PHIR BANSURI BAJATA...

GUSSE HOKAR MUJHE DANTI KEHTI,
"NEECHE AAJA",
PAR JAB MAIN NA UTARTA,HANS KAR KEHTI,
"MUNNA RAJA"....

NEECHE UTRO MERE BETA ,TUMHEIN MITHAI DUNGI,
NAYE KHILONE,MAKHAN,MISRI,
DHOODH MALAI DUNGI...

MAIN HANS KAR SABE UPAAR KI TEHNI ,
PAR CHAD JATA,
EK BAAR "MAA" KEH PATTON MEIN WAHIN,
KAHIN CHIP JATA...

BAHUT BULANE PAR BHI "MAA",
JAB MAIN NA UTAR KAR AATA,
TAB "MAA" TUMHARA HARIDAY,
BAHUT VIKAL HO JATA...

TUM AANCHAL PASAR KAR MAA WAHIN PED KE NEECHE,
EESHWAR SE KUCH VINTI KARTI,
BAITHI AANKHEIN MEECHEY.....

TUMHEIN DHYAN MEIN LAGI DEKH,
MAIN DHEERE DHEERE AATA,
AUR TUMHARE FAILE AANCHAL MEIN,
AAKAR CHIP JATA...

TUM GHABRA KAR AANKH KHOLTI,
PHIR BHI KHUSH HO JATI,
JAB APNE "MUNNE RAJA" KO,
APNI GODI MEIN HI PATI....

ISI TARAH KUCH KHELA KARTE,
HUM TUM DHEERE DHEERE,
"MAA" KADAMB KA PED AGAR,
YE HOTA YAMUNA TEERE.......

आशा का दीपक

2010-02-22T02:14:00.000-08:00

वह प्रदीप जो दीख रहा हइ झिलमिल, दूर नहीं है;
थककर बैठ गये क्या भाई! मंज़िल दूर नहीं है।

चिनगारी बन गयी लहू की बूँद जो पग से;
चमक रहे, पीछे मुड़ देखो, चरण-चिन्ह जगमग से।
शुरू हुई आराध्य-भुमि यह, क्लान्ति नहीं रे राही;
और नहीं तो पाँव लगे हैं क्यों पड़ने दगमग से?
बाकी होश तभी तक जब तक जलता तूर नहीं है;
थककर बैठ गये क्या भाई! मंज़िल दूर नहीं है।

अपनी हड्डी की मशाल से हृदय चीरते तम का,
सारी रात चले तुम दुख झेलते कुलिश का।
एक खेय है शेष, किसी विध पार उसे कर जाओ;
वह देखो, उस पार चमकता है मन्दिर प्रियतम का।
आकर इतना पास फिरे, वह सच्चा शूर नहीं है;
थककर बाइठ गये क्या भाई! मंज़िल दूर नहीं है।

दिशा दीप्त हो उठी प्राप्त कर पुण्य-प्रकाश तुम्हारा,
लिखा जा चुका अनल-अक्षरों में इतिहास तुम्हारा।
जिस मिट्टी ने लहू पिया, वह फूल खिलाएगी ही,
अम्बर पर घन बन छाएगा ही उच्छ्वास तुम्हारा।
और अधिक ले जाँच, देवता इतन क्रूर नहीं है।
थककर बैठ गये क्या भाई! मंज़िल दूर नहीं है।

EKTA KAPOOR JI APNE BHI KYA SIRIAL BANAYA

2010-02-21T00:00:00.000-08:00

EKTA KAPOOR JI APNE BHI KYA SIRIAL BANAYA
KAHANI GHAR GHAR KI LEKAR,
KYOUN KI SAAS BHI KABHI BAHU THI MEIN LAFDA KARWAYA
HAR LAFDE KI SHOOTING NIKAAL KAR
SARE ZAMANA KO DEKHAYA
WAH WAH APNE BHI KYA SERIAL BANAYA
PARIWAR WALO KE PAAS
DHAIR SARI DOULAT DEKHAYEE
KAHAN SE AAYE YEH DOULAT
KISI KO NAHI DEKHAYEE
FASHION KI CHAKA CHOUNK MEIN
PARIWAR KI MARIYADA DESH KI SANSKRITI
YEH DEKHAWA AUR JHOOTA NATAK HAI
KAHI KISI ROOZ NAHI HAR DIN DEKHAYA
GHAREEB HO YA AMEER SARE PURSHO KO
KASUTI ZINDAGI KI DAGAR PER THAIRAYA
BAJAJ PARIWAR, VIRANI PARIWAR, AGARWAL PARIWAR
YEH PARIWAR O PARIWAR NA JANE KAISE KAISE PARIWAR
INKE SARE PARIWARIK JHAGDE
STAR PLUS PER KHUL KAR DEKHAYA
INHI JHAGDO NE AAP KO AWARD BHI DILWAYA
PATI PATNI, SAAS BAHU, JAIT JAITANI, NANAND BHOUJAYE, IN SABHI RISHTO KO
EKTA NE JAB CHAHA JAHA CHAHA PAL PAL HAR WAQT NACHAYA
DEKH KAR IN BANAWATI RISHTO KO
SAR MERE CHAKRAYA KASAM SE
TULSI SE PEHLE MUJHSE RONA AAYA.
KAUN KIS KA PATI HAI, AUR KAUN KIS KI PATNI
EKTA TUMHE BHI SAMAJ NA AAYA
KARAM APNA APNA KA WASTA DE KAR
SAMAJ AUR MERE PARIWAR PER QAYAMAT DHAYA
WAH WAH EKTA TUNE BHI KYA SERIEL BANWAYA
AAP KE YEH SERIAL DEKHKAR SANJEEV KUMAR GHABRAYA

नही छोडेंगे हम धुम्रपान कभी

2010-02-11T02:18:00.000-08:00

फूंकने का कर्तव्य है हमारा
और सहना धरम है तुम्हारा
कहीं भी कभी भी किसी भी हाल में
तलब मिटाना हमको खूब भाता है
बच्चें हों, बुजुर्ग हों, बीमार हों या भीड़ हों
बेशक पर्यावरण का कितना भी सर्वनाश हों
अरे भाई पढे लिखे है हम बहुत
यह विज्ञापन और प्रतिबन्ध
भला हमको कोई रोक पाएंगे
जान लीजिये यह जरुरी बात
की धुम्रपान उतना ही जरुरी है हम लोगों के लिए
जितना शरीर में आत्मा का होना जरुरी है
यूं भी यह कोई इतनी बुरी चीज़ नही
शान औ शौकत के अंदाज़ हैं
बड़े बड़े लोग करते है
या यूं कहिये जो करते है
वो ही बड़े हों जाते है
क्या अदा किस मस्ती से और जूनून का
पुरा लुत्फ़ उठाते है
चिंता हों या कैसा भी दर्द
हर चीज़ में बड़ा सहारा मिलता है
वैसे भी जवानी का मतलब ?
बड़े हों गए है अब आजाद परिंदे हैं
सिगरेट के हर कश से नई नई
कल्प्नाओ को ऊँची उड़ान मिलती है
रोब और ताकत का सर्वोत्तम विकल्प है ये
अब आप चाहे कितनी भी बड़ी बिमरिओं का वास्ता दे लीजिये
डरा लीजिये, समझा लीजिये
कानून पर कानून खूब बना लीजिये
परन्तु इतना हमारा भी सुन लीजिये
की धुम्रपान बेहद जरुरी है
चाहे हमको आप कितना भी ख़ुद में कमजोर कह लीजिये
पर हमें कोई ताकत नही रोक सकती ऐसा करने के लिए
बेशक कल को हमारे बच्चे
रोग लेके जन्में हमारी वजह से
और बेचारे कितने भी बन जाए मरीज हमारे धुंये की वजह से
ये इन सबका नसीब है
हमको क्या मतलब दूसरो की जिन्दगी से
जो होना हो
होए हमारी बाला से
हमें जीवन मिला है
भगवन की कृपा से
और हम जियेंगे इसको सिर्फ़ और सिर्फ़ अपनी तरह से
कोई कर्तव्य और कोई धरम और कोई बोल बचन
हमको बाँध नही सकते
धुम्रपान रोकने की प्रतिज्ञा से

( धुम्रपान करने वालों के प्रति पुरी इज्ज़त और सम्मान से)
(रचनाकार : रवि कवि )

15 Things worth knowing about Coffee

2010-01-20T20:57:00.000-08:00

Networking Tips for the Busy Designer » Website Design, CSS and Search Engine Marketing

2010-01-15T04:20:00.001-08:00

Networking Tips for the Busy Designer » Website Design, CSS and Search Engine Marketing

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Design Patterns for Mobile Social Software

2009-09-20T22:33:00.000-07:00

Making “mobile software” into Mobile Social Software suggests that social beings assume an explicit role in the untethered, software-based experience. If we borrow from the idiom of Social Software, we can say that Mobile Social Software are techniques for articulating social practices that create, maintain and manage networks of relationships amongst people and encourage the circulation of culture in untethered, networked-based usage contexts. The design challenge for such techniques is to avoid prioritizing instrumental aspects of mobile terminal devices over the actual social practice that software attempts to facilitate. I suggest herein that this challenge can be addressed by moving to the foreground specific practice idioms as frameworks for design prototypes, avenues for research and development, and contexts for study and theory objects. This design approach is described as a point of view on Mobile Social Software, along with an explication of this perspective through a taxonomy of Mobile Social Software design idioms

Mobile Social Software describes the creation and maintenance of social formations and the circulation of culture as sustained through the use of mobile communication networks, devices and terminals. The term Mobile Social Software packs together a design tension between the desires of people to be social and the means by which they achieve their sociability. Mobile Social Software is both the means of achieving sociability and the action of energizing one’s social networks. It is both the artifact and the activity. It is a device, such as a cell phone, iPod, laptop, keitei,NintendoDS, Tamogotchi, and the practice engaged, such as playing Nintendog while networked with a friend who is also playing nearby. It is important to underscore the depth of this cohesion between the instrument and the activity. For instance, when we speak of SMS as a kind of Mobile Social Software, we mean both the instrumental short messaging service and the action of SMS’ing, with all of the implications associated with the social interaction of communicating amongst one’s network of friends, colleagues, parents, children and so forth. This is another way of saying that mobile devices are also social devices in the degree to which they
mediate social relationships, social networks and manage the circulation of culture that sustains such networks.

Why is it important to emphasize the two-sidedness of Mobile Social Software?

Because networks of social beings can be shaped by mobile communications devices at the same time that mobile communications devices are shaped by their use and design as instruments to mediate social networks. Appreciating this dialectic makes devices amenable to DIY-style “refactoring” when they are in the hands of users, turning the “end-user” into an important member of the design team. Software becomes social in its action — the practices and uses for which it was designed or for which it becomes employed by those who make use of software. The interplay between technological resources — software, devices, networks — and the articulation of social actions — communicating amongst one’s social network —are what make software “social” and, alternatively, social networks “mobile.” There are valences to the “MoSoSo” meme. It is new and exciting. Also, it is age-old and exciting. Any term such as this whose mnemonic fits so nicely into the argot of the era of the Internet anticipates an ahistorical wave of near-future speculation and “innovation” activity. Mobile Social Software wants to be new. It wants to be different so that its future remains full of promise and not something that has already been done.
What makes it new and exciting? The answer lies in the way Mobile Social Software coheres social practices that arise in mobile, untethered contexts into a category of technical designs that support the creation and maintenance of one’s social networks. The speculation in play is that what worked for the world of tethered, sit-ata- desk social networks — Social Software — may work when you add the “mobile” prefix. This may not always be the case, of course. Mobile usage contexts and scenarios are quite different from those of the tethered usage context, a point sometimes lost in the design of mobile applications.But Mobile Social Software is also age-old in Internet years, and this point is crucial to consider. As new as we want it to be, and as excited as speculators in this new terrain are, it is crucial to think about Mobile Social Software in its precise context. Mobility and the techniques for articulating social practices in untethered usage contexts — this is really what we mean by Mobile Social Software when we are also not just angling for some nibbles from the venture capital community. The mobile phone itself, before it became a computing platform, was the Mobile Social Software artifact par excellence. Voice — and only later — text-based SMS, allows for the kind of social communication that latter day Mobile Social Software strives to accomplish. Voice and text by themselves are often enough to be mobile, sociable and in one’s social loop because such registers of communication are simple in the way they facilitate mobile, untethered linkages amongst people.

Presence Awareness

Presence Awareness is a form of social communication that provides contextual cues indicating the location, availability for interaction, tasks and activities as well as other indicators as to the state of being of those in one’s social network. Instant Messaging provides a form of Presence Awareness merely visual and auditory cues indicating whether one’s buddies are available, active or away. More advanced cues indicate whether a buddy is using a mobile device (a Sidekick or Blackberry, for instance) as an IM terminal, suggesting that they may be on the go, rather than at a tethered workstation. Much early investigations into presence awareness were focused on its use in collaborative work environments through the use of messaging and video “telepresence” style video displays.[3, 5, 6, 12, 13] This research is largely focused on creating workplace efficiencies by allowing colleagues to know each others availability or present tasks, useful when working on collaborative projects, particularly when team members are working remotely. While these systems are useful, they raise consequential privacy and surveillance issues. Another potentially fruitful area for Presence Awareness is more casual social contexts. Recent work has begun to explore the interpersonal uses of Presence Awareness in a way that aims at creating a mobile, digital networked form of reaching out and touching someone.[8, 12] Ito and Okabe, in their insight rich explication of the technosocial situatedness of mobile messaging amongst Japanese teens, describe “ambient virtual co-presence”, a kind of “ongoing background awareness of others, and of keeping multiple channels of communication open.”[7] A characteristic of Presence Awareness in the context of their study is a “sense of ambient accessibility, a shared virtual space that is generally available between a few friends or with a loved one” that “do not require a deliberate opening of a channel of communication but are based on the expectation that someone is in ‘earshot.’” As distinct from the goal of creating workplace efficiencies Presence Awareness in the interpersonal social situation has a far subtler agenda — communicating affection, state-of-mind, present activities and emotional moods. This register of communication has less to do with finding out whether a colleague is available for a conference call, and more to do with projecting “..a sign or smile or glance that calls attention to the communicator, a way of entering somebody’s virtual peripheral vision.”[7] Paulos describes this kind of Presence Awareness as a kind of mediated communications tool that create “nondisruptive interaction when not co-located” that people can send “quickly, efficiently, and often without being distracted from their current task.” “Communal interfaces should allow for easily establishing and maintaining emotional, ambient connections. Our studies of co-located human interactions led us to the following design criteria for communal interfaces: (1) nondisruptive I/O (i.e., ambient), (2) always on, (3) personal association to the communication artifact, (4) support for nonverbal communication, and (5) attempt to provide some level of exchange of human emotions (i.e., emotional interface). gestures.”[9] Several Presence Awareness projects that fall within this design idiom straddle the boundary between emerging and art technology practice, and are worth mentioning. These are forms of Presence Awareness that are specifically designed for scenarios in which individuals are in different physical locations, yet still wish to share some sense of “presence” with others, typically with a minimal degree of interaction. What is unique about these projects is the apparent contradiction in creating rich, meaningful conveyances of presence
through a minimal interaction syntax.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

2009-09-20T22:26:00.000-07:00

When you start to think about your research methodology, you need to think about the differences between qualitative and quantitative research.

Qualitative research explores attitudes, behaviour and experiences through such methods as interviews or focus groups. It attempts to get an in-depth opinion from participants. As it is attitudes, behaviour and experiences which are important, fewer people take part in the research, but the contact with these people tends to last a lot longer. Under the umbrella of qualitative research there are many different methodologies.

Quantitative research generates statistics through the use of large-scale survey research, using methods such as questionnaires or structured interviews. If a market researcher has stopped you on the streets, or you have filled in a questionnaire which has arrived through the post, this falls under the umbrella of quantitative research. This type of research reaches many more people, but the contact with those people is much quicker than it is in qualitative research.

Qualitative versus quantitative inquiry

Over the years there has been a large amount of complex discussion and argument surrounding the topic of research methodology and the theory of how inquiry should proceed. Much of this debate has centred on the issue of qualitative versus quantitative inquiry – which might be the best and which is more ‘scientific’. Different methodologies become popular at different social, political, historical and cultural times in our development, and, in my opinion, all methodologies have their specific strengths and weaknesses. These should be acknowledged and addressed by the researcher. Certainly, if you were to do so, it would help you to think about your research methodology in considerable depth.

Deciding which methodology is right for you

Don’t fall into the trap which many beginning (and experienced) researchers do in thinking that quantitative research is ‘better ’ than qualitative research. Neither is better than the other – they are just different and both have their strengths and weaknesses. What you will find, however, is that your instincts probably lean you towards one rather than the other. Listen to these instincts as you will find it more productive to conduct the type of research with which you will feel comfortable, especially if you’re to keep your motivation levels high. Also, be aware of the fact that your tutor or boss might prefer one type of research over the other. If this is the case, you might have a harder time justifying your chosen methodology, if it goes against their preferences.

Information technology in India

2007-12-15T21:19:00.000-08:00

Information technology in India

Enjoy the Taste of Amul Ads

2007-09-17T01:34:00.000-07:00

AMUL : The Taste Of India

2007-06-17T21:23:00.000-07:00

On Super Jumbo A380 Airbus double-decker the world's largest civilian passenger aircraft in India for first time - May' 07.

Mayawati leader of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) becomes Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the fourth time after her party's splendid Assembly Election success - May 2007.

Richard Gere Hollywood actor and Shilpa Shetty Bollywood actress in a controversial incident in public at an AIDS function in India - May, 2007.

Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's sister Haseena Parkar granted bail in case of extortion, cheating & forgery - May '07.

Bollywood romantic comedy film CHEENI KUM (A Sugar Free Romance) in which superstar Amitabh Bachchan shares time with little girl his neighbour, suffering from leukaemia, wise beyond her years - June '07.

Load shedding in Mumbai & its suburbs and parts of Maharashtra due to power shortage - April '07

Indian Cricket Coach Mr. Greg Chappell resigns after debacle in ICC World Cup 2007 and bitter feud with players - April '07

Sanjaya Malakar youngest semifinalists in American Idol Season 6 - singing contest - April '07

On Bollywood superstars Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan's son Abhishek's wedding with Aishwarya at their residence Prateeksha in Mumbai - April 2007.

On Bollywood's comedy film Bheja Fry - May' 07.

AMUL: The Taste Of India Creative Gallery

2007-06-06T21:32:00.000-07:00

Death of Tulsi Virani, the favourite lady actress in an episode of the long running popular Indian TV serial 'Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi' - June'07.

Source : AMUL

Spyjax - Using AJAX to Spy your browser history!

2007-06-03T04:12:00.000-07:00

If you’re like most web users, you assume that your browser history is private. For example if you visit an online store, you assume they can’t see if you’ve been looking at their competitor. Just a few weeks ago I assumed this was the case. Guess what?

Your browser history is not private!

In fact with a few well crafted lines of Javascript, websites can examine your browser history and record what pages you have been to. Keep reading and I’ll tell you exactly how it’s done and introduce you to a service that any webmaster can put on their site to see what pages their users have visited. I’ll also tell you exactly what type of information can be retrieved, and how you can protect yourself.

How JavaScript Can Be Used To Steal Your Browser History:

With CSS website designers can make links a different color if they have been visited by the user. For example this link should be colored differently than this other link. The first link you have been to before (it’s the page you are on right now) while the second link you have never visited (because it is fictitious). Now you’re thinking “but how can this be used to steal my history?”. Let’s dive a little deeper.

Example Code

The code to do this examination can be a little tricky due to cross browser issues. Here is a snippet of Javascript that can do the evaluation (based on the Hey you! Where have you been? blog post by Peter van der Graaf and script from Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Cabri):

function hasLinkBeenVisited(url) {
var link = document.createElement('a');
link.href = url;
document.body.appendChild(link);
if (link.currentStyle) {
var color = link.currentStyle.color;
if (color == '#ff0000')
return true;
return false;
} else {
link.setAttribute("href",url);
var computed_style = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle( link, null );
if (computed_style) {
if (computed_style.color == 'rgb(255, 0, 0)')
return true;
}
return false;
}
}

How To Stop People From Spying On Your Browser History
There are two sure fire ways to stop people from stealing your browser history.

The nuclear option is to disable JavaScript within your browser. In Firefox you’d just go to Tools -> Options -> Content tab and then uncheck “Enable JavaScript”. This method is very limiting because you probably enjoy all the JavaScript goodness on the web.
Limit your browser history. The less browser history you store the fewer URLs someone can steal from that history. In Firefox you can change the amount of browser history by going to Tools -> Options -> Privacy and then either uncheck the “Remember visited pages” checkbox or change the number of days that history is stored for.
More Information on Spyjax

BLOGGER'S BLOCK

2007-05-14T23:36:00.000-07:00

I'd like to say I've been suffering from Blogger's Block, a real and serious condition worthy of capitalization, and maybe even a listing in Wiki. But unfortunately, I don't believe it exists.

Even its more famed and deadly cousin, Writer's Block, seems to me like a dressed-up name for fear. Or laziness. Or procrastination.

Or maybe it just means you really don't want to write at all. You want to think about writing--a much less taxing activity, that has never taken the life of a tree, or bored a single reader.

So no, I haven't had Blogger's Block. Instead, I've been conducting an unplanned (and highly successful!) experiment on the principle of Inertia.

So much of what I learned in grade school is lost forever, as I first learned when I tried to help my kids with their third grade math homework. Division of fractions? Huh? Did I ever do that? And how about diagramming a sentence? I'm sure there's a good reason to learn to do it, but I never knew what it was.

But I can still remember the morose Mrs. M. (who tippled in the paper closet,) teaching us that:

A body in motion remains in motion,

while a body at rest remains at rest

until acted upon by an outside force.

It has the kind of sing-song rhythm that made it memorable for those of us more inclined to poetry than science. If, say, the theory of relativity could have been encapsulated in a similarly catchy phrase, I might actually understand it.

But back to the scientific principle of Inertia. In life, it means something like 'if you don't begin your diet or your novel or your exercise program today, you're even less likely to begin it tomorrow...' And if you ignore your blog for five days or more, it soon becomes "a body at rest," stuck indefinitely on a poem about a bad mood.

Very interesting, no? I think it was Picasso who said that he painted every day because if he took a day off, he might never do it again.

There's a lesson in that, and now that I'm in motion again (I think), I just might take it.

ALL ABOUT SMOKING

2007-05-01T02:44:00.000-07:00

* First of all, let me say something about the photo, which was taken by the outstanding New York photographer known as Noam Galai. I'm reasonably certain that the man in the photograph (who looks like Bob Dylan to me, but is probably--or almost definitely--NOT) is smoking nothing illegal. Just wanted to make that clear.

Have you ever smoked heroin?

1. No.

2. I probably wouldn't be announcing it on the worldwide web if I did.(They arrest you for that kind of stuff, don't they?) Then again, I tend to be pretty naive. If I had heroin for breakfast, I'd probably be feeling the need to confess here and now.

And 3. They smoke it? Really? I thought they just "shot" it. Hmm...If I ever was going to use heroin in any form--which would probably only occur if I was terminally ill or all my loved ones were killed in a train crash--smoking it sounds more appealing than the vein-popping method.

The truth is I've never smoked much of anything. I never got the hang of inhaling noxious stuff into my lungs, and whenever I tried, I ended up embarrassing myself by choking, sputtering and hacking in front of the friends I was trying to impress with my cool.

It wasn't from lack of trying either. Growing up in a mill town, the art of cigarette dangling was practically de riguer. By the time I was thirteen, everyone I knew was packing Marlboros in their jacket pocket. I tried to cave in to peer pressure; really I did!

Unfortunately, like the much-ridiculed ex-President, I never inhaled. I did do a hell of a good imitation though (and I'm willing to bet that Bill did, too).

The good news is that faking it is not addictive, and I never got hooked. The bad news--if there is any bad news in NOT developing a deadly habit--is that my friends quickly tired of lending me their butts.

In other words, it was a short-lived phase.

When a joint was passed in college dorm rooms an at concerts , I quickly learned that pretending was even more necessary to my image than it had been when I snuck a feigned smoke outside the middle school. Fortunately, the light was provided by a candle or otherwise dimmed--or maybe everyone else was so high they didn't notice.

A few times, despite my ability to really inhale the stuff, I actually thought I was high, too. I giggled, I got the munchies--the whole routine. Now I'm left wondering if it was more a testament to the power of imagination than the trace narcotic I got from puffing.

I'll never know. But I do know how you tell a real smoker from a faker: We may puff, but we never purchase--particularly not when cash is scarce and the objects of my real addiction--chocolate chip cookies (!)--were available at the all-night snack bar.

Interestingly enough, most of my characters are mad smokers. But then, living in one of my books, has got to be pretty stressful. They are, after all, suspense novels.

The good news: my characters are among the most resilient and determined people I know, and every one of them is trying to quit...Maybe by the time I reach book #5 or 6, it will be a smoke-free world.

10 thoughts about THE KITCHEN

2007-05-01T02:33:00.000-07:00

Alice In Domesticland, originally uploaded by BrittneyBush.

1. When I looked around for an interesting kitchen photo, I found a startling abundance of sexy ones. Naked people ambling across the linoleum. Women in lacy lingerie sprawling on the granite countertops. That kind of stuff. I wonder why...is the kitchen in the sexiest room in the house--or the one where sexiness is most forbidden?

2. Yellow is a very good color for kitchens. If I were queen, I would order all kitchens painted yellow at once.

3. Every kitchen should have a kitchen table, even if it's a little one where you can sit in a bathrobe with a cup of coffee and a notebook in the morning and look out at the birds.

4. My kitchen doesn't! (The queen would like that rectified at once.)

5. My favorite item in the kitchen is a little bench my father made for my kids when they were little. The only one who sits on it now is me.

6. It's good to contemplate the world from a little bench on the kitchen floor every now and then.

7. I hate the idea of having a TV in the kitchen. If I were queen, I would forbid it. If you want noise while you're cooking, the queen insists you have to sing.

8. In my grandmother's kitchen, breakfast was a three course meal: first fruit, then oatmeal (the slow cook kind), then fried eggs and toast. She always sang when she prepared it, too.

9. The best kind of floor is the black and white checked kind that I so admired in Laini's kitchen. Along with no TV, and no walking naked through the kitchen (unless it's late at night and you're really hungry) and mandatory kitchen tables for all, and singing even if your voice is really bad, the queen would order black and white checked floors for everyone. And a little bench where the cat can come up and brush against your knees. Don't forget the little bench.

10. If everyone sang while they made their oatmeal, it would not only taste better, it would lower cholesterol 22% more than it already does. Exactly 22%. If you don't believe me, the queen will commission a survey to prove it.

10 and a half: Once, just once, I want to wash dishes wearing shoes and socks like the ones in the photograph by Brittney Bush! Now that's sexiness in the kitchen. And look at the yellow!

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2007-04-30T00:02:00.000-07:00

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