My second Ghazal ended up being about an issue that really boggles my mind at all times. The Ghazal was written after the Muslim-Hindu riots in Gujarat and reflects my thoughts about this plague that affects our home countries and perhaps the whole world. raah-e-imaan ko laashoN se sajaate kyoN haiN? log “bhagwaan” ko “shaitaan” [...]
So it finally snowed in Montreal. Everybody is telling me, why do you want the snow so badly, but I was damn worried about the fact that in the last 20 years that I have been in Montreal, I have never seen a non-white christmas! But like they say, better late than never…..
Ok, so wanna play World of Warcraft? But don’t want to pay all that money to Blizzard? I mean, it’s great, I love it really, I don’t mind paying, but sometimes, you just need a month to play for free so how about trying those free-servers out there. Two places you can find them, at [...]
Recently, I have been really enjoying the Stargate seasons on DVD. When the show initially came out, I was in love with it because I loved the movie and all things “sci-fi” always tickle my fancy. Star Trek for example has been my all time favourite TV show, whether it was TNG, DS9 or Enterprise [...]
My first Urdu Ghazal, written in the same meter as Ghalib’s favourite ghazal ‘dil-e-naadaaN tujhe huaa kya hai’. As a matter of fact, the Ghazal is written in the same ‘zameen’, meaning the same ‘radeef’ and the same ‘qaafiya’. I intend on posting articles on my blog in my own words about my understanding of [...]
This was my first French poem ever, written on 07/May/1992, sitting in a french class while looking at a really pretty “Quebecoise”…. Considering I was writing a poem in French while the teacher was talking makes it ok, at least I was doing something to improve my French. Here ya go: Les cheveux comme les [...]
My second French poem, written while sitting in the college cafeteria in September 1993… what else there is to do when you are sitting in the cafeteria right? Toi La lumière de l’astre des nuits la flamme de l’astre des jours la couleur de la nuit sans lune tout est contenu dans tes très beaux [...]
I figured, while I’m just filling up my blog with stuff, let’s post more of my old French poems, they do need a place! So here’s another poem that differed greatly from my normal style of writing, which usually includes love poems. The poem was written on 13/Sep/1994, during my college days. Sang (blood) was [...]
This poem was written in 1994. The poem represents some of the questions my mind still can’t find any answers to. However, the search is on. I stopped writing French poetry in 1995 and this, according to me, is one of the best poems I wrote. Although, I’m being extremely subjective in my assessment and [...]
If you have a SB Live Platinum 5.1 with the IR Drive in front and you got it when the CD that came with the sound card had only Win 98 drivers, well then you are like me! Everytime you need to do a reinstall of Win XP (and you know, this thing happens more [...]