I'm not dead

I'm just a little too freaked out with a million thoughts bumping off my head, especially since the loss of my glasses has perpetrated exaggerated vacuity in the critical decision making areas of my brain.

I'm on leave for the next week. From everything.

Oh, and a bit of news: I got Wordpress! They have a cool posting engine, and post categories, and smooth image upload, and custom pages, and neat commenting features, and a comments RSS, and posts import, and they let me take sameer.wordpress.com. In two words, they rock.

The only issue I see with them is Templates. They don't yet support custom templates, I think. And I'm not going to leave my kick-ass cool blue template even if they allow me to blog from Mars. Or offer me one of these babies.

Of cogent prose and fake celebrities

It's a hackneyed and dull practice to fill up your blog with prose of other authors. So you don't do it. The rules change, however, for an author of Ghalib's repute and a fan of my indulgence. This one's courtesy AJ.

koee ummeed bar naheeN aatee
koee soorat nazar naheeN aatee

maut ka ek din mu'ayyan hai
neeNd kyoN raat bhar naheeN aatee ?
[ mu'ayyan = definite ]

aage aatee thee haal-e-dil pe haNsee
ab kisee baat par naheeN aatee

jaanta hooN sawaab-e-taa'at-o-zahad
par tabeeyat idhar naheeN aatee

[ sawaab = reward of good deeds in next life, taa'at = devotion,
zahad = religious deeds or duties ]

hai kuchch 'eisee hee baat jo chup hooN
warna kya baat karni naheeN aatee ?

kyoN na cheeKHooN ki yaad karate haiN
meree aawaaz gar naheeN aatee

daaGH-e-dil gar nazar naheeN aata
boo bhee 'ei chaaraagar ! naheeN aatee

[ chaaraagar = healer/doctor ]

ham wahaaN haiN jahaaN se hamko bhee
hamaaree KHabar naheeN aatee

marte haiN aarzoo meiN marne ki
maut aatee hai par naheeN aatee

kaaba'a kis muNh se jaaoge 'GHalib'
sharm tumko magar naheeN aatee

Kaaba, I'm told, is the huge masonry structure built at the hallowed grounds of Mecca. Drop me a pointer if I'm wrong. Other posts on Ghalib here and here. In other news, Gaurav Sharma, the man made famous on this blog now has a blog of his own.