Fighters

I have been discovering music these days, I am a music freak who loves to listen music, on my top list there are artists like Parveen, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Talat Mahmood, Md. Rafi, Mukesh, Ghulam Ali, Jagjit Singh, Mehndi Hassan, Shamshad Begum, Lata Mangeshkar. For me music is not just about hearing, its about living into it. For each artist I love I have a story behind it, that why I love him/her. When I was a child I couldn't understand what Ghulam ali sahab was singing but I just loved listening him. My Nanaji listens to all type of music and I owe him for making me love these artists. Lets start this discussion by putting here top songs of these artists. This is one of the best song of Abida Parveen, and I have heard it for more than 1000 times, each time I hear this song it looks as fresh as if I am hearing it for the first time. This is I think the beauty of her voice. Absolutely mesmerising. I can listen to her for whole day long, just one song. My biggest wish in life is...

Two poems I wrote a couple of years ago, when I was preparing for IIT JEE, and things were really tough all around. I wrote this poem two days before Diwali, I don't know why I wrote this , but after writing this i realize that Diwali here resembles hope for life, light and happiness. दिवाली तू लेकर आ,फिर जीने की चाह रोक मुझे अनजाने पथ से, सारा जीवन तुझ पर निर्भर मृत्यु पथ पर तू एक सुंदर बाधा, फिर एक चाह बनी है शायद चिंगारी कोई दिखी है शायद, शायद मुझे रोक सके तू शायद मुझे रोप सके तू, मैं एक टूटी शाख लगाये हुए हूँ तुझसे आश, मेरे मन की ज्वाला दिवाली समेट सके तू आज सिर पर लिए एक बोझा जा रहा हूँ दिवाली तू रोक सके मुझे अनजाने पथ से सारा जीवन तुझ पर निर्भर मृत्यु पथ पर तू एक सुंदर बाधा। जीवन के इस पड़ाव पर हूँ शायद मैं नितांत अकेला चाह रहा हूँ तेरा साथ, चाह रहा मैं उस अनजान की यात्रा दे सके तू मेरा साथ, जब था मैं एक शोला, लोगों ने मुझे सराहा जब आज मैं शीतल हुआ, लोगों ने मुझे दुत्कारा चाह रहा एक रोशनी, चाह रहा मैं तेरा साथ, दीवाली तू लेकर आ फिर जीने की चाह दिन गुजरे माह बीते बदला जीवन का ...