Sunday, October 10, 2010
Tujshe Koi Gila Nahi (Song)
Mei to khudd se hi naraz hun!
Maine Ki khata 'ki' tujhpe wishwas kiya,
Ye to mera hi gunnah hai!
Tu kya jaane, aasha kya hai...? meri...
Mei to khush hun, teri khushi se...
Tujhse Koi Gila Nahi
Mei to khud se hi naraz hun!!
Anupriya Srivastava
(2008)
Change Has to happen!
Whose eye is set on his goal...
And his heart pumps for that destiny...
That has awaited thousands of years...
That moment passed & you lived like this is always...
Now you realize, its a moment of change, to be what you are!
Realise change is permanent, it will happen,
But it will always happen gradually as you become something else or someone else!
Anupriya Srivastava
(12 oct '08)
Life
The silence of this night,
The calmness of this earth,
The million stars above
And that sleeping child...
are nothing but a delusion!
When the music turns to shrieks,
And Silence to noise,
You won't ever relalise...
When your life ended and where!
Anupriya Srivastava
Be Aware!
In all that I have lived, I am quite unaware of things around me. But more importantly, probably I am unaware of what's happening inside me!
Anupriya Srivastava
(2006)
Shayari ...
Aur woh sabab ki masti ko anjaam rahe de hai!!
Nazar unki hati nahi, unke ashiq se!
Hum wahan betaj ho gaye jindagi ki nazar se!!
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Har subhah, har shaam hua,
Dosti ka ek anjaam hua,
Dushmani ka peygam hua,
Hum Zameen, Woh Asmaan hua!
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Anupriya Srivastava
Hopeful Days!!
I need to fly!
My wings are strong,
The music, the song is still going on...
I am dancing still,
to the time of my will,
I do it my way!
I go with my say!!
That's what makes me what I am!
I believe I can!
Thanks a lot my god!
By
Anupriya Srivastava
(2003-2004)
Disciples for Self Realization!!
2. Sat - Truth
3. Seva - Selfless service
4. Satsangh - good company
5. Satsmaran - remembrance of god
- Living Spirituality magazine
Hope
The war is going on,
wish of win in heart,
we are going on...
I pray to god,
give me strength,
to carry on...
Anupriya Srivastava
The Dot Theory (by Anupriya Srivastava)
And when I look down upon me from up there, I see a small dot! Which is so insignificant!
I feel so small and my problem becomes even more smaller!
And then, when i get up and come to the real world, my view of my problem is changed. I believe that my problems are so small, that I should not be worrying about them any more!
Anupriya Srivastava
A little Foggy, It Is!
Long Streets, hills, greenery it is!!
Some HiTech buildings, some Barren lands it is!
A little foggy it is!!
A beautiful Majestic town it is!
Calm, Composed and Serene it is!!
Silent Day and Silent Night it is!
But a Little foggy it is!!
So fine, So long it is!
A lovely night again!!
A morning so cool came again!
But again, A little foggy it is!!
So soon, I realised once more!
Yes, it is foggy & Hazy again!!
Ad-mist past the stolen days, no cure!
Little Ahead, I see light, no gain!!
Show, No-show, hide & unhidden!
Everywhere, the past speaks!!
The place, the people, the clouds, the trees!!
No Answer, given!
It Happened that morning...
We were sitting together!
Love in each one's eyes...
Holding hands and praying!
But again a little foggy it is!!
A crowd of people or animals, I wonder!
Or is it a game of prey and predator!
or a reality, unseen, ever!!
It happened that morning, we sat together!!
Days were no longer days!
Dawn was no longer lovely!!
Sun was a symbol of rage!
Pain was tears, I, lonely!!
It happened that morning, we sat together!!
No Fogs in my mind now!
Only Hatred in eyes!
I wonder, the same place is it?
A little foggy it is!!
Tears come everyday now!
And Anger Speaks more than words now!!
Why?, we ask each other,ourselves and god!
It happened that morning, we sat together!
Anupriya Srivastava
Wrote in college!
(2006)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Still Don't Know...
Sunday, October 3, 2010
There is more to just you and me
We dive deeper and drown but never say give up…
No Challenge, No Life.
No Life, Not alive.
Not Alive, Yes, Dead!
I wish not be dead in my living body!
Hope Still Remains, Will always be…
Mother Nature, Mother Earth and Mother Mary, Please help!
YES,
A much has happened, yet a lot has to happen…Waiting to happen…
There will be a time when all this just goes away, and hope remains….
No Wonder, No Worry…
Just You and Me!
Anupriya Srivastava
Trying to understand the origin or religion…
Origin of Religion – I wonder !!
And initially though the land pangea was a single piece of land, it did separate eventually, due to the moving magma in earth crust and the ocean waves. And that’s how we got separate land. So, we were living in far off lands in small civilizations, and we all came up with different ways of living, with different ways of explaining things like fire, thunder, lightening (and in hindu/Aryan mythology there is a god named after each of those phenomenon, who supposedly controls these things), but that still does not explain the need to give a name to each practice/belief, and follow it like a principle of life. Though land did separate humans, I do not think that it gave us the right to form rules and regulations and impose on our people.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Just You and Me
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Do U have courage to look in your own eye?
Now that i am looking for it (Peace), I will find it sooner or later.
I am also an IDIOT
Today, when I was having horlicks in the cafeteria sitting all alone by myself, I had an epiphany- "A moment of total clarity" that I am a total IDIOT. I really am and that is why I am an engineer like million others who did not choose to become an 'Engineer'. Actually we do not know what to become. No one gave us a proper counseling when we were young and the only counseling we received was from our parents - "be an engineer , now the market is hot for Engineering + MBA and later you can do MBA".
Did my knowledge really go to waste?
It took three to four sips of horlicks to light up my bulb but I got an answer finally. The fact is that we are very hard working people, it’s in our genes, Indians were slaves for a long time and anything that any species does for a long time, gets embedded in our genes (there are some genes that get affected by environment- so my biotech-engineering was not a waste after all). But now the environment is changing again and along with it those genes are getting affected too and over the years we will change and do more smart work rather than hard work.
And as Einstein says : "“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”"
We should do smart learning. This is the need of the hour. And use the free time for enjoying our hobbies, or exercising- keeping ourselves happy and healthy. I really feel that I would have been much healthier if I had done smart work instead of hard work-(People who saw me studying would agree).
I should have attainted knowledge in those fields which I knew would help me in future and should not have diverted my attention to other fields.
But that too should be made clear in the beginning by the parents, "that we can spend only this much or that much, choose a course accordingly or propose a solution to raise money for your course".
Instead of hiding the amount they intent to spend on their kid’s studies and saying we will handle everything, parents should declare what they can spend otherwise it gives the child a kind of safety that they can rely on their parents and they do not work hard on achieving their own dreams and they do not push themselves to their limits.
So why not let the kid enjoy what he studies and why not let him focus on what he wishes to, keeping in his/her mind and ours that he should at least read(not study) the other subjects and get more than 60% in each of them. Which most of the students do, as far as 10th and 12th is concerned.
Eunuch, A human or an Animal?
Every time, I have to address a crowd. I am confused, nervous and sad. Why sad? In my head there are these thoughts...of how will i address them and why should i address them like this and why is that no one questions my wrong statements.
I am thinking about the opening lines...
"My brothers and sisters..." No does not seem right...Let’s take it from the top... "Dear Men and Women..." No, even worse... “Dear Ladies and Gentlemen..."- wait am i right?
What is that I am missing? Why is it that I don’t feel right about this...
Dear People of this world... Ya, I got it correct this time.
And these lines, take me to a place where I feel extremely sad and sacred. As if I am in a holy place but where I do not see holy people , I see dead bodies, bleeding wounds and crying children. So, I am sad too. I am unable to ignore their cries but I am too weak to protect them from the misery ahead of them. I am unable to comfort them, because the cause of their pain is not physical. Their pain, which some men and women can see and feel, resides in their heart.
I am trying to reach there but there are too many barriers. I need to break them and I am too weak to do such a big, important and obvious task.
We call these people - eunuchs, hijras, human hermaphodites etc.
People, we the people often forget that a eunuch is also a part of we, the human life form.
Men , Women and eunuch ...
I feel extremely correct and a sense of righteousness settles in me, when I say this. I feel so holy as if I am carrying a torch in the darkness of ignorance and abandonment. But to my surprise, I am not alone. There are several others who believe in providing the rights of eunuchs, who believe that eunuchs are humans too and deserve to be treated like one. But I am not sure, if they are ready to help yet. Everyone fears the unknown and we do not know how the world will react, when we stand and talk about a very critical, controversial issue. But, do we let the fear stand in the way of something that is so right?
Think about this!!!
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There are two ways to look at things. For e.g. a glass having some water is either a glass half full or galss half empty.
So why are we unanimously looking at the matter of eunuchs as a glass half empty. What happened to the other part of the glass that is half full.
Its not a new problem, Its age old now.
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Although in the hindu(India) culture, we are suppose to pay our respects to them. And during the protection of queens and princesses, these people were preferred over men. Somehow, over the years,though we were supposed to be evolving, i guess that process stopped once we became homosapanies from homoerectus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch
But we, homosapiens, the human forgot to behave as human.
We became ignorant.
The condition/Abnormality with which they are born is not what they asked for. (add)
If a girl is sitting and crying on the road, the people passing by will give a glance, some will ask if she needs any help and some might get the police for help.
But if a eunach is crying on the road, the world will turn its back on them.(add)
I am too weak to stand up and move a rock by myself, I need help and i have only my voice, my words to win each one of you over.
Like any other issue, this has to be looked at objectively.
1. Getting to understand them: I am trying to contact eunachs through social networking sites. We need to understand them, their emotional needs, sexual needs, trauma that they went through and treatments that they tried.
2.Awareness: We need to make people aware about the current unfair situation regarding eunachs.
3. Changing Polices: We need to have a section for eunachs like we have Male/Female/Eunachs.
4. Acceptance : This is the most important part of the process/revolution. Even if we have all the rules and regulations for them, we need people to accept them.
My Life Dream Unknown
When did I dream of being a Teacher? Never Ever. I used to play a role of a teacher, when i was in 3rd or 4th grade, as most kids do.
I never thought that there is a teacher building inside of me. I am not sure how can i make this a well paid proffession. I am still struggling in my mind.
I remember a Civil Engineer lady who left the industry and joined my school as a teacher when i was in 11th standard. She gave a short speech about job satisfaction and I was shocked to learn that people could leave high paying jobs for a satisfactory Low paying job. I did not appreciate her. I thought she is too nakchiri (a Snob). How easily she is saying- "I don't like this so i wont do it".
And I remember telling myself that "Life is not that simple, we need to take tough choices and hard decisions, sometimes against our will, to keep ourselves and our families happy".
Turns out, I wasnot wrong! I was right on most part but i forgot to add one thing... "How long can you stick to those tough choices and hard decisions, depends on how strong is your will against your own will."
Today, I have knowledge of Physics/Chem/Maths and Computer Science, Biotechnology being a non-bio student, and currently, I am in an IT Industry. The shock here is that this situation is not shocking at all. As this is the current situation of 80% of the B.Tech graduates.
Why don’t we stop and ask the question - Why are we fed irrelevant data and why we dont get suitable jobs. Why is money driving the souls of mankind. And how are people surviving it.
I really need to understand this, why are my parents not angry or unsatisfied by their jobs. Or if they are, why doesn’t it bother them?
May be it is selfish of me to be satisfied by my Job. Or is it?
I never dreamt of being a teacher. But when I teach someone, I feel i am doing a very noble thing. When I finish teaching someone I feel the power of giving...To be able to give and spread knowledge coming solely from my own mind.
Why should not I enjoy it each day... Why should I punish myself by going to the IT industry every day.
Though, I am still confused-if money is a good enough reason to punish yourself? I will not be able to leave this soul-sucking job beacause i am not strong enough to fight with the people I love. And I dont know how comfortable i will be by- not being able to make enough money for my husband, siblings, my parents ,my parents in law, my children and my dogs.
I am sure the answer is hidden somewhere inside me but as many others i am unable to find it...
