Saturday, May 10, 2003

Once was the time when you had to dig through tonnes of books or heaps to catalogues to find some book / song / poem of your choice. Now the situation is still the same. Though the wealth of information is there amassed_on_wire in form of zero and uno, the problem still presists in the form of judicious sense of using it. Lack of Knowledge / information is no more a problem , dearth of intelligence is...
Listening to the tunes of Jagjit on this cool weekend evening I wonder how alien we are to our own roots in general and language to be particular, when words like Qayanat, Shafaue, Dhanuk, Mehtaab, and bandagi falls to my ears. This probably may push me to give up French and German for exploring what is more nearer and prior to them. So "kaun kehta hain Mohabbat ko Jubaa hoti hain, ye haqeeqat to Nigaho se..." now seems to be taking priority over"Almas del silencio" :: Jaleo (Ricky Martin)...

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