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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Pakistan / India

It is only a few kilometeres away                                                 
yet a faraway place

a place where my roots are

My childhood breathed in another land
my youth blossomed in another place
yet a part of me....my father's daughter
wants to smell the earth in which he was born.

But it is not just across a border
it is across years of hatred
and wars
and now also across
some cricket matches.

I love the game too
but I hate the circus around it

and I wish if matches could be wars
then the one in 1947
should have been called off....


Sunday, March 27, 2011

एक स्मृति

एक स्मृति

उस 6x10 के डिब्बेनुमा
कमरे में उसका घर है
गर्मी की घुटन में भी एक संतोष है
जो संगमरमर की ठंडी दीवारों में नहीं.

उसके खुरदरे हाथ
बनाते हैं ना जाने
कितनी आलिशान कोठियों की ज़िन्दगी
को मुलायम.

दिल्ली परदेस तो है
पर करमभूमि
जिसकी हर क्रूरता को
वह हँसी में टाल देती है

मेरी बच्ची जो  
उनकी गोद में खेली,
बड़ी हुई
आज एक दूर शेहर  से गयी थी उनसे मिलने

एक रंगीन डिब्बे में रखी थी
सी कर उसके लिए एक फ्राक्क
और बनायीं  थी
उसकी मनपसंद आलू की सब्जी

गरीब कौन हैं
जो ले जा पाते हैं सिर्फ
मिठाई ,तोहफे और पैसे
या जिसने बाँध धी
मेरी गुडिया की मुठी में
अनगिनित मुस्काने  






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