कभी कभी ज़िन्दगी
किसी मटमैली शाम को
बिस्तर की सलवटों मैं
ठिठक कर रुक जाती है I
कभी कभी रौशनी
काँधे से सरक कर
मेरे साये को
मुझ से लम्बा कर देती है I
तब वह साया
उदार की हंसी का मुखौटा पहने
अजनबी आंखूं से दूर तक
देखता रहता है मुझे I
वह मेरी कोख मैं पलता है
मेरे कण- कण से लिपटा
हर पल अपने अधूरेपन का
अहसास दिलाता है मुझे
एक अथाह अंधकार की पनाह मैं
हर सुबह मिलता हूँ उसे
और किसी मटमैली शाम को
मेरे बिस्तर की सलवटों मैं
छिपा हुआ मिलता है वह मुझे I

KARWAR

Karwar is the administrative Head Quarter of Uttar Kanada. Situated roughly 95 Kms from Goa and 260 Kms from Mangalore this port town is connected to Delhi, Mumbai and Mangalore through Konkan Railways.One one side it has the sea and on the otherside it is guarded by Western Ghats. An unexplored destination Karwar is a beautiful port town with a very small population of lovely people.The town has a number of popular beaches like Devbagh,Kajubagh and Koodibagh. There is a Dargah of Peer shan shamasdin kharoobat and Naganatha Temple.Karwar was an ancient site for sea trade for Arab, Portugese and later the British.Karwar in earier times was a source of cardamom ,pepper and muslin.Kali river(Kalinadi)which takes birth in western ghatsflow through Karwar.Konkani,Kanada,Marathi and english are major languages spoken.A Naval base has come up at Karwar which is a part of project sea bird.An ideal place to to relax Karwar is a beautiful tourist destination for a nature lover.An evening at the virgin beaches of Karwar is a rememberence of a life time.

YAKSHA GANA
Yakshagana is a dance form popular in coastal regions of Karnataka. The dance form is believed to have evolved from ancient pre classical music period and theatre. Yaksha gana means the song of Yakshas. They were an exotic tribe mentioned in the Sanskrit literature of ancient India. This dance dialogue form is popular in Uttar Kanada, Udupi, Kasargod,Shimoga and is compared to western opera.An interesting fact of Yakshagana is its use in puppetery.YakshaGana is composed of two main parts:
Himmela the Background music group and Mummela the dance dialogue group. Together they are known as Yakshagana Prasanga. The performance usually consists of the rendering of a story from a Hindu epic or purana. There is a narrator known as Bhagawatha who narrates on the basis of precomposed dialogues set to music. It can be classified in to Classical, Folk or even Rural Dance form. A beautiful dance form rich in costumes highly traditional and full of touching performance by the dancers/ actors is traced back to eleventh century AD. An amazing blend of Sanskrit dance drama Yakshagana is played at twilight hours. The colourful masks worn by the performers is a visual delight.
Most of the dance troupes remained associated with the temples, therefore many Training facilities could not be developed. There are even today very few training institutes in the coastal belt of Karnataka. Government is doing a lot for revival of this dance form and there is a lot of activity in the area of training and research at Bengaluru.

क्या कहें

तुम्हारी और ले जाती है
यह सुगंध से लधी हवा
मेरी छत प़र टपकती
पानी की बून्धें
चुपचाप सरकती रातें
पसीने से लथपथ खोलते दिन
फीकी चाय की कराहती चुस्कियां
टेबल प़र लेटे हुए सारे कलम
और लैपटॉप की खुली स्क्रीन I
तुम से बातें करते रहते हैं
मेरे उलजे उलजे बाल
मेरी चेहरे की झुरियूं मैं छुपे
हज़ारूं सवाल
मेरी आंखूं से लिपटी
अनगिनत जागती रातें
सांसूं की थकी थकी गुटन
थरथराते कांपते हाथ I
और मुझे घेरे रहता है
एक मायूस चेहरूँ का जंगल
हकलाता कभी शोर करता
कभी दुम हिलाता `
कभी घुटने टेकता I
और मेरे साथ चलता है
मीलूँ लम्भी ख़ामोशी ओडे
एक सुनसान रास्ता
जो एक चौखट प़र
ले जाता है मुझे
जहां रिश्तूं के कटघरे मैं
मूल्यूं का उपहास होता है I
बांस जैसी लम्बी भुजाओं से
अपना चेहराउतार कर
तुम्हारे सामने रखता हूँ
और हज़ारूं फूलूँ की चादर ओढ़े
तुम पहचान नहीं पाती मुझे

RANI YOU HAVE DONE IT

Rani was born on 31st jully, 1990.She met me in my office during the period of my posting at Varanasi.Rani has won 14 medals at the state level and 12 at the national level. Thin small girl , Rani is a marathon walker and walks 10 KM.Dedicated to her game Rani had no means to look after her physical growth and therefore depended on private help and scholarship. She had been requesting the state Govt to help her. But no one would. Rani met me and I could see that this girl had in her everything that a National champion has. I wrote applications for her, sent requests on her behalf to the Govt and other public sector undertakings requesting for a job. No one listened , No one cared. But Rani did not give up. One day she rang me up from Patiala and said that she had been given employement in Railways. She has joined today at Varanasi and tomorrow she is travelling back to Patiala to resume her training in the Commonwealth camp. She has promised me that she will do her best to earn a place in the athelitic squad of India in Commonwealth games. Rani I know will because she knows she can and therefore she will. For me it is a mission accomplished .Thank you Rani for beleiving in yourself and for having faith in me. You have done me honour. I am very happy for you. God bless you my lovely daughter.

HAPPINESS A STATE OF MIND.

The yellow dancing flowers that once make you sing with joy unfortunately look pale over the period of time. Beauty lies in the eyes of beholder.Also true is the fact that we look before and after and pine for what is not.They say you are a successful man if you have good friends who talk to you while you are living and who can rest your body in peace when you are departing from this world. Truth is that the relationships make the person you are.Experience is not what you know about things, it is how you deal with the knowledge that you have acquired. When everything fails you nature does not, it has an answer. The most beautiful relationship one can have is the one you have with yourself.Most of the time you are in communication with yourself and while communicating if you have understood the value of silence you are meditating.It is beautiful to be within yourself, maybe because you know where you are and who you are with. You know that between you and yourself nothing would change and you also know that there would be hardly something that would remain unchanged.Albert Einstein said that there are two ways of living your life, one is as if nothing is a miracle and the other as if everything is a miracle.Enlightenment enhances the quality of your performance. Happiness is a state of mind and it is unfortunate that we do everything that leads to unhappiness in the hope that our actions will make us happy.

A date with Budha

I learnt to touch life. I learnt to communicate with nature. I learnt compassion and I felt like I am in love. It was beautiful being withyou. As you said very rightly the whole process was like disecting mind, the whole process was like understanding sorrow and finding out the path leading to happiness. You said you bow to all Budha's past present and future and thus how easy you have made it for me to find you Budha every where. When there were no answers there was the gush of wind, when there was no speech there was music flowing down from the simplicity of being.I was alone but not lonely. I was with no one but my own self. I heard the noise buried deep within me I felt the silence that was wraped around my existence. I was there in everything and I did not taste you , I just became you. Vipassana- a date with Budha.