Sunday, December 21, 2008
SX4- Men Are Back
Thursday, November 06, 2008
One year gone by....
One year is going soon by
With some moments to remember and some lost
People that has come and gone made me acquainted
With many ways that I found best
The bouquets of memories I have crossed
Each new day in the mood of a challenging high
Every Milestones I crossed now seems
As natural a stone upon hills
As emotions settle in the game mind plays
Few wonderful occasions I thought were gone
Few path ahead were not straight and narrow
but i continue life with promise of tomorrow...
(© Rakesh Kumar)
Monday, October 27, 2008
Rambling thoughts...
If there were some reason for your less than enthusiastic behaviour, I would like to think that you could be honest with me, but you only deny the feelings which constantly bother me. Which makes it worse. Who knows what drives you ? or what goes on inside your head, because you will not tell me in anyway or you worth consider me, neither do i care to ask you. I almost succeed in refusing to let this bother me. Almost....Maybe your definition of things differs vastly from mine.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
For Jai only...
Dedicated to Jai... Jai you are really special... and one of gem in my life.
Will you share your wildest dream
Which you even think impossible to realize
When life is broken and your spirit dies
You are standing where reality fades
Surrounded by difficulties you feel invade
When you try to walk but your feet don't move
None of your effort see any improve
You see a day when your past get blurred
The song you loved singing but forget the word
You reached to moments where you lost you sense
Unable to find reason to judge between truth and false..
I will be there in your deepest desire
In the last ray of your dying fire
You will see me standing not even today
But where your dreams fade away....
(C) Rakesh kumar
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Me.....
So you believe it is final blow
And i have no escape to defeat..
I agree that i have nothing left in me
But i don't require any courtesy
I have been crushed and pieces are crumbling
Scattered figments of my quantum being
You think my existence is finished
Falling astray in time will vanished
Yes, there is nothing left for imagination
My end is here without further occupation
But you don't know that i have the resolve
For every difficulty courage to solve
Sure, I have been trounced by every indiscretion
But my spirit is still not weaken
Certainly I will reach to my distant abode
Ultimately all of troubles will be swallowed
(© Rakesh Kumar)
Friday, August 15, 2008
Butterfly..
Sometimes i do fail in this quest.
This feeling may soon die in my chest..
I always cry but don't shed tears
Any way I am the only one who cares
I still feel pain which stops my heart beat
The day i stopped our beautiful meet.
I don't complain when you always refused me
You even didn't consider me worth to share a coffee.
You were a butterfly happily going around
But I could sense your inside deep wound
You could easily be my sweetheart
We had none and now we are fated apart
Life is difficult and now looks bleak
Fighting this battle I find myself weak
Now destiny will take it own course
I did best whatever i could do but no remorse
(© Rakesh Kumar)
Friday, July 25, 2008
Life as a single.....
It was an office family day party and I was at lift door waiting to get down to ground floor.
I felt embarrassed and I simply replied "I am still a bachelor."
She looked at me surprise with expression that some one had refused joining offer one day before joining date. It was obvious as 2 month back I was interacting with her regularly and she was aware that I have 8 yrs of industry experience and still a bachelor.
She said “Meet my daughter" pointing to a cute kid standing with her. I extended my hand to kid and said "Hi". Still lift had not come to 6th floor and thing was getting difficult to me.
"Get married soon" said HR.
"Yes, I am also thinking that time has come" I replied.
Finally lift arrived and ended my torture, I decided to take stairs.
I am 29 years old (still) a bachelor. Life in a strange city especially for a bachelor not living with parent is tough especially for male. Not many people will realize this.
"When are you going get married"? This question I started getting slowly and now more often around 6 years back from all walks of my life friends, colleagues. relatives etc.
4 years back I was staying in a society Apartments in Gurgaon with my friend who was working in Hero Honda. Most of people in neighborhood apartments were either couples or staying with their families.
Before I continue let me explain that I belong to normal middle class family and my parent instill decent Indian family values to me. Whenever we used to seat in society park people used to look us strangely like we are some kind of thief specially those who were with their wives. I think they were either too insecure or did not have trust on their wives. I was not there to steal their wives neither did I was interested in a married women. One day while I was walking there one couple was sitting in car with light switch on when we passed beside car his wife took a glance on us and we too looked at her. Seeing this husband switched off car light. I felt really insulted obviously he had a bad perception about our character.
In my previous company I came to know when I joined there that the person who had interviewed me had told to his team mates that he had interviewed a person with few kids. I don’t why he had such perception. I am slim, fit and healthy. He must have derived his conclusion from my years of professional experience.
As bachelor I have to face and struggle different sorts of problem at different walks of life.
"Sir, these people are bachelor." told my house agent to owner of the house. I was searching a house in Bangalore and after 2 weeks of running I found one good.
"I don’t want to rent it to bachelor" said house owner bluntly.
I insisted and asked "Why sir", we are decent guys working in reputed company and don’t have any bad habit even I don't drink. But he refused. We had settled for some other house.
"Rakesh, when are you going to get married.” asked my product manager one morning in office when I passed by him.
"I don’t know yet" I replied.
He advised me to get married soon else I would lose interest and it would be difficult for me to adjust.
It was not a first time my bachelor status was questioned. Many project meetings have been centered on my bachelor discussion only. I really wondered is being bachelor or single, crime or people cant see others being single or happy.
Whenever my all married friends meet their wife would say "Rakesh, get married soon", When will you get married." all sorts of enquiries. Also they have stopped calling me to their gathering and I too feel uncomfortable as every one will come with their wife and what will do in that gathering alone. Also the character assassination u will realize only when all your friends’ wife will call you Bhiya.
It seems that my friends don’t trust my character at all.
Because of these social embarrassments I stopped visiting to married friends or any social gathering where couples are invited. Even in office my colleagues complain that I staying in office not because of my passion dedication or responsibilities of my work but because of I am a bachelor and I don’t want to go at room or don’t have any place to go. What is hell should I say to these morons.
Is being bachelor is crime? I think in Indian society there is no place for single or bachelor. An unmarried person is always discriminated here and there. As a bachelor u will always be overloaded with work in office people will talk behind you giving various reasons about not getting you married. You feel isolated in social gathering. There is no place for singles in Indian society.
One obvious discrimination is that there is channel for kids, there is channel of old there is channel for couples but there is no channel for adult’s bachelor and I still keeps on browsing channel without purpose looking for the adult program.
"I want you to get married in next 3-4 month" told my father when I was at home during Holy vacation.
"But it’s too early and I am not financially equipped to bear the burden and cost at this stage". I don’t know anything.” said my father.
Meanwhile my mother came with some girls proposals. I felt shy and uncomfortable looking at them.
"What about this one" asked my mother?
I expressed some concern. But they did not listened or tried to understand.
The plot was ready for big parliament debate which was scheduled in the evening when my uncle also joined us as speaker.
"What is problem with this profile" asked my father.
"No problem, these are only my area of concern. Please look in to this. You people go ahead with it get them clarify. Once you are OK I will talk with her and let you know." I said.
"Let me know what question you will ask" asked my father. I kept silent.
Now I even don’t what I am going to ask and what I am looking in a person I am not buying a product that I am aware about features but I should be know and understand other persons concern. Now a day girls have more concern and marriage is anything but commitment.
"You don’t understand what kind person you should marry, do what we say and get married." this was a bouncer from my uncle.
My uncle is understanding type and I am more open in discussion with him than my father. I have spent lot of time discussion and playing various things with him.
He continued, "You only know office work and lacks understand in other front of life. You got your mind poisoned working in that environment. This generation is spoiled" he added.
I said nothing.
"If you have any one in your life lets us know or any one you are interested in" my mother intervened.
"I don’t go office for romancing. I go for work." I replied politely.
"Go and meet these offers once your Ok I will move ahead" I added just to finish this debate also because discussion was getting heated and I started raising my voice which I was feeling bad. Frankly speaking I did not like any one out of this photograph as I have already glanced them when my uncle was looking at them.
“I know this girl and you can't refuse if you’re going to meet her." said my brother.
He was pointing to one snap he had already met that girl in Allahabad and that was distant relative of my Mama Ji. Why can’t I say no if something I find difficult to accept or she has any issue. It was out of my understanding and all logic failed against this statement. Also my father was insisting as he was finding it difficult to refuse this proposal as it came from my Mama Ji side. What they did not understand that I have just put concern and they all were discussing it without getting it clarified with concern parties. Also in this matter I am bit traditional type and don’t want disappoint people who are around me. I want them to carry this task giving weightage to my criteria.
"Why don’t you find a girl in Bangalore and let us know. Or search by yourself. I can’t go out looking girl for you. I am answerable to society. I can’t refuse so many people coming to this house. Choose any one out of these." declared my father.
One session of parliament was over after 4 hours of discussion. And coalition between left and congress was about to break over this nuclear deal issue I was finding it difficult to handle.
Few months passed and discussion continued over phone mainly... my parent and my uncle were visiting Bangalore.
"This house is big but we need some one to stay here. It looks empty" said my aunty as soon as she entered in house.
They came after 38 hours of train journey. Obviously she was referring to my bachelor status and wanted me to get married soon. I just smiled.
So the team that is looking a girl for me consists 4 main members. My uncle aunty and my parent. My uncle being leader of the team. Besides that there is other side member and I understand that they know more than me about what kind of girl should I marry.
"You go and meet this girl with your mother and aunty. She is in Bangalore and we will fix and appointment tomorrow." ordered my father one night after dinner.
My father was telling about a profile which already sent to me before they came here and I didn't like that at all. I have already conveyed that to my family member even though they were still insisting. I was wondering what was purpose of sending me photograph when my opinion was not be considered.
I refused to go. Obliviously it was more than a deadlock situation between left and congress which I understood was not abt principles but abt not understanding needs of each other and showing flexibility to understand each other.
Finally I agreed to go.
My mother and aunty came disappointed next day.
"Aunty, Get Rakesh married" said my friend wife whom I have invited to lunch at my room... its understandable that once some once get married he want
every one else also to get married soon. Why should only few people get punishment?
"So what’s update in your life" asked my friend wife she out of station for 3 weeks, came back 2 days back.
I said "Nothing its same as usual story”.
It was obvious that she was referring to my single status whether I have made any progress in my search of girl or not.
The search is still on and I see a new mail in mailbox with subject "Photo and profile" from my bother. I expect one more debate this evening over phone.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Imagination
This poem I wrote for some one i have not met or seen.......
I guess I have a friend not so far
Not in dreams and not in reality
Although she exist but only in my imagination
With her some time I forget future and past
Forever and ever will this happiness last?
I wonder how long this good time will last
Before we realize one of us would be gone
Place is not far way and only for sometime
If we meet, will it be such a crime..
Wish she would known that in times to come
That she took very long to see sun
What could I do to erase the distance
Should I try harder with persistence.
No purpose for her trying hard to hold
As she has one life to enjoy
Wish she open herself
To thing life offer and be bold.
Time will go and people will go
Then we realize value of thing so.
Come on!! Don’t feel stopped by ego.
So that few years after past will not echo..
May be we will move on in years to come
But we won't be upset for things not done.
(Copyrights Rakesh Kumar)
Search Of Truth..
I have discovered so many
So many truths I discovered
Few old, few new
Few black, few white...
Few mine, few others
Few virtual, few real
Few hidden, few obvious whom every body ignored
Few were stranger and few ruled my heart.
Few confused and few clear
Few written and few spoken
Few cold and few hot.
Few were reason and few were excuses.
Few tempted me, few excited me
Few loved me, few hated me
Few scared me, few doubted me
Few build me, few broke me
In search of truth I have come very far
I have discovered so many
So many truths I discovered
Few laying everywhere and few standing tall
Few low and few high that difficult to reach
Few as bright to make you blind
Few dark that could not be watched
Few were clean and few were dirty
All were truth, few told and few untold.....
In search of truth I have come very far
I discovered so many
So many truths I discovered....
But you were like a distant star..
Like an asteroid so far away in space
Like a rose fragrance, like a flowing river
Like an early morning dew, like hard as rock
Like a burning candle fighting with wind..
You were not a creation of God
You were born in my tears melting day by day
You grown in my blood, flown in my veins
You lived in my every imagination
You were in my every experience,
You lived in every moment I lived
You were part of my last rites
You burnt with me in my funeral pyre....
And I found you again in the ashes left behind
In search of truth I have come very far
I discovered so many
So many truths I discovered..
But I found only one...
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Emotion vs Logic = Generation gap
Few hours back...
and its incomplete and not in final shape..
It was a beautiful Sunday evening
Just got down from an auto ride
Standing on road side, I saw a familiar smile...
I saw her coming down on my side, almost cried
It was a dream of my wildest imagination
The feeling which could never be described...
Distance was small and she crossed in moment
Before I could realize she passed by my side
Could not stop her, my actions were absent...
So close that I could sense her breathing
Just coincident or destiny ways of explaining
Close enough that I could touch her shoulder
I wished those moments to get more bigger...
I was not expecting her to see again
She always feels to me like a old friend
Now I see her walking away farther
Standing, suffering with pain of my heart's blister...
I can not handle any more this stand
Her silence is burning me all
Why she will not ever held my hand
I have been waiting since so long...
Weakest as ever no more any stronger
Life will be difficult without her smile and laughter...
Monday, June 16, 2008
Fugac
This poem I wrote when i was trying to collect my memory figments for past few weeks on a Sunday morning. Its just a seq. of events I have put in few lines...
Floating in the figments of my imagination
i was fighting a battle to become champion
I was in the deserts where i saw a distant rose blossomed
i thought it as ray of hope in the stormed that loomed
My lonely journey to goal was distracted
She smiled at me and my heart reacted
I found a rose which used make day shine
I seeded a plant to see its yield
it started in the month of Jan
i tried my best what ever i can
I went to her as a human, like some one other
it was not in my intention to treat her as lover
i opened my self and never tried to pretend
i found heart racing and nerve bends
i talked little more but voice was soft
I wondered, was it a beginning of a new draft..
I ignored facts, didn't consider
Fake smile can be such a blunder
My way of life was astray
I was wandering looking for a ray
i was not having courage to be bold
but my feeling was not meant to be sold.
smile on her lips and disdain in her eyes
i was not meant to be treated in disguise
Now how can i run from myself i wonder
although i went through many rain and thunder
i was searching what this feeling stored for me?
she never tried to look and see..
Keep on looking world through troubled eye
She treated me like dirt but i won't cry
Perhaps she will get lost in the sea of faces
A journey left incomplete in life's hazes
Now my life seems different, brighter and whole
No purpose in slipping sand trying hard to hold
Its not my habit ask question why?
She will fade way from memory before she realize....
Smoke.....
I still luv her, she may also be, how will I know..
She never spoke but i saw through her eyes that glow
Her face was bright, shining like a distant star
Her smile was something for which I could run faster than car
She rule my soul and heart since centuries ago
I still luv her, she may also be, how will I know..
I never thought that i will loose my self
She rules my mind days and nights
I lost every battle with out any fight
I wished to lose surrounding crowd
So that i can tell her my feeling clear and loud
Her words are like deep inside me like echo
I still luv her, she may also be, how will i know..
Now we don't talk any more, I pass by her down my head
There are words unspoken when will be they said
I don't look at her, when i do her eyes follow
I still luv her, she may also be, how will I know..
How long it will go one day it will rain
I hope destiny will come to explain
I have lost her, my desire is just rainbow
I still luv her, she may also be, how will I know..
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Choices we make.....
Friday, April 25, 2008
A poem for a girl...
I used to be on one side of cubicle..
she on the other side, hearing her chuckle......
Distance was short and only few inches
But to cover them i felt many hitches
As I sit on my chair
Listen her voice occasionally
There was no such place elsewhere
Some time I get up to glance her bright face
Will I get a chance to say hello in any case
Days were passing I got lucky then
Went to dance class and met her again
I was so uncomfortable and unsure
Unable to match her step on dance floor
Day passed by watching her smile
I also got courage to stand by her cubicle side.
I am sure she got that smile
For which I can run few extra mile.
Many days passed and I have nothing more to add
Besides those morning hello to make me glad...
One day she was asking meaning of the scrap
If I had courage why to behaved like crap
I never felt for anyone like this before
Will she understand how much adore
I have a feeling I don't know how to describe
I bring them here in these lines never before scribed
Now I walk to her cubicle to say few words
I want to add more but feel awkward
Sometimes I feel what she thinks of me
Should I invite her and discuss it on coffee
She is also not a fool, though its easy to pretend
Why it feel to me like an old friend
Sometime I wish to say how I feel loud
Wish I lose this surrounding crowd
Today I noticed a strange feeling in evening
The usual smile on her face missing
I know she has gone through many pains
I want her to be without any strains
She has a right not to like me
Or if she want, can slaze me like an Aussie
My feeling are are my own I love them like anything
I don't mind if they can come down crumbling
But I want to let her know
So that tomorrow I don't feel stopped by ego.
So that few years from now I won't have any regret
May be I will move on in years to come but not be upset.
(Copyrights(c) Rakesh Kumar)
I, A computer programme
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Cognition....
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
(...)
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Aur Pakdti ter ki Baithki Chudawala Ho Bhagwaan...
The story goes like this.....
There was famous orchard named RAMBAGH known for mangos. Surha taal (A Big lake) was famous for its fishes and Pakdi (a old banyan tree) where people used to sit and gossip sleep and relax, was taken by God from singer. The narrator used to praise and sing those lines when he was in prison during british raj. When jailer came to know about these lines he told this prisoner that if they were so famous take me to these places as he wanted to see them. The prisoner took him and gave mangoes from Rambagh orchard and fishes to eat from Surha taal lake. when fish being cooked jailer was relaxing under (Pakdi) this very old banyan tree. He felt so relaxed that he slept there. When he wake up he freed prisoner by giving some money.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
A Poem...
I found one poem that was interesting i was impressed by innocencent desire expressed in it.
I want to live one life more
so that in it i might meet companion
who knows how to give love
who rises in morning smiling at me
who looks at me diving deep into my heart and soul.
Who, in the afternoons, in the midst of her various chores,
feel sad about me
who passes her day in waiting.
who, in the evening gives such welcome,
who releases me from all desires and longings,
releases me from the cares of birth and death
who bring me to timelessness.
I yearn for such companion,
who adds the color of pearls of her warm tears
to my suffering.
won't be upset when journey is difficult
won't wrinkle her brow.
perhaps in next life i will find such companion
who knows how to give love.
for this , i want to live one more life.
Desires have no end. Need are very few, desires have no limit. Man goes on living with the support of these hope and desirtes.
Friday, February 15, 2008
I can't help it.....
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Swivet....
Every where marriage question is being popped up to me again and again to me. I am also trying to find answer to this question. Don' t have any answer, criteria or exact parameter at this point of time and i don't expect it to get it in near future, may be i am little too confused or may be i don't want to answer this question at all.
When the right time comes: its not the about me or some else its about almost everyone. Everyone is waiting for right moment to come. They are consulting astrology, going to the palmist... inquiring in different ways what is going to happen tomorrow. I don't think 'Tomorrow' ever happens. It never has happened. It is simply a stupid strategy of postponement. What happens is always today.