Wednesday, April 27, 2016
The Adulterous Husband by Gunjesh Bond in amazon top 100 best sellers ranking
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
The Adulterous Husband
Friday, February 12, 2016
बसंत पंचमी की कुछ यादें
हफ्ता दस दिन पहले माटी के मूर्ति की बुकिंग शुरू हो जाती थी। मुझे याद है मैं महीना दिन पहले से हर दिन शाम में अपने स्कूल से आने के बाद, कपडे बदल कर, गाय से निकला हुआ गरम गरम कच्चा दूध पी कर सबसे पहले अपनी साइकिल उठाता और तिन मिल दूर मूर्ति मेकर्स के पास पहुच जाता। तब मूर्ति मेकर्स मूर्तियों का फ्रेम बनाते थे या कह लीजिये पुआल का ढांचा डिज़ाइन करते थे। मैं मूर्तियों को देखता और मूर्ति मेकर्स से हिसाब से ही सवाल करता ताकि वो गुस्सा न खा जाये। मैं अपने मंडप के साइज़ में फिट होने वाले मूर्ति का साइज़ देखता और सबसे छोटे साइज़ की मूर्ति ही फिट हो पाती। साथ ही साथ दिमाग में हरदिन कुछ रूपये इकठ्ठा करता! सोचता, पिताजी ड्यूटी से वापस आएंगे तो ठीक है, मूर्ति खरीद पाउँगा वरना मम्मी के पास बिस रूपये मूर्ति के लिय प्लस प्रसाद के बिस; कुल चालीस रूपये। सोच कर ही इम्पॉसिबल लगता था।
कल बसंत पंचमी आने को थी। और मैंने पूरी तयारी कर ली थी। मंडप तैयार था। तरह तरह के डिज़ाइन के कागज के फूल और त्रिकोण काटने वाले छ्विलाजी को हमने पांच रूपये में तयार कर लिए थे। उसकी व्यस्तता को देखते हुए हमने प्रॉमिस कर दिया था की आप जितना कहेंगे उतना हम आपको देंगे लेकिन मेरा मंडप इस गाव का सबसे खूबसूरत मंडप होना चाहिए।हमने किसी बड़े की सिफारिश की ज़रूरत नहीं समझी और सात रूपये लग गए। पांच रूपये उनकी फीस और दो रूपये का उनके लिए पान और ज़र्दा जो उन्होंने पुरे दिन चबाये और थूके। पुरे दिन सोचता रहा साला मूर्ति का बयाना दे रखा है। कही से पंद्रह रूपये आ जाये की जा कर मूर्ति ले आउ। मम्मी ने दादी से कहा। दादी ने कहा था की आज के दिन चाचाजी आने वाले हैं। पैसे वही दे सकते है। सूरज की किरणों के घर तक पहुचने से पहले से ही मैं अपने इमेजिनेशन में चाचाजी को ड्यूटी से घर आते हुए देखता, उन्हें कपडे बदलते हुए देखता, फिर वो घर से बहार आ कर वेरंदा पर बैठते और यही सबसे अच्छा समय होता। क्या कहूँगा उनसे? वो तो डाटेंगे, कहेंगे की पढाई लिखाई छोड़ कर अब ये सब धंधा पानी शुरू कर दिया? जो भी हो मूर्ति तो आएगी और धूम धाम से पूजा होगा। मन ही मन सोचता कही से बारह वाल्ट की बैटरी का जुगाड़ हो जाये तो कल पंडित के मंत्र जाप समाप्त होते ही चाचाजी के कमरे से म्यूजिक प्लेयर लगाकर हिंदी के सुपरहिट गाने बजा देता।
शाम ढल ही रही थी की दूर बांस के बागान के बीचो बीच एक पैडिये रस्ते से कोई आता नज़र आया। बगुले की ध्यान से देखा तो ख़ुशी के ठिकाने न रहे। खूब कुदा, नाचा, इधर उधर भगा। वो चाचाजी थे। जैसे जैसे उनका कदम घर के करीब आता, मेरे दिल की धड़कन उतना ही तेज़ होती। ख़ुशी तो थी लेकिन उनसे पैसे कैसे माँगा जाये? जौसे ही वो आये सबसे पहले हमने उनका चरण स्पर्श किये और घर के अंदर जा कर सबको गुड न्यूज़ दे डाली।
चाचाजी आँगन में गए। दादी और मम्मी के चरण स्पर्श करते हुए चाचिजी के पास पहुच गए जो रोटी बेल रही थी। उन्होंने चाचाजी से थोड़ी अठखेलिय की और अपने कमरे में चले गए और थोड़ी देर बाद बहार निकले। उन्होंने लुंगी और बनियान पहन रखा था। फिर वो आँगन में गए और दादी से पुछा "बाहर किस चीज़ का मंडप लगा है?"
"कल सरस्वती पूजा है।"
मिर्ती वाले के यहाँ पंहुचा तो देखा अभी भी लोग मूर्तियां खरीद रहे थे। मैं अपने मूर्ति के पास गया और देख कर विश्वास नहीं हुआ मूर्ति इतनी सूंदर बानी थी। जबकि हमने अभी मूर्ति का चेहरा भी नहीं देखा था। पूजा के दो दिन पहले से मूर्ति का चेहरा ढक दिया जाता था और उसे पूजा क दिन पूजा से बस थोड़ी देर पहले ही हटाना होता था, वो भी बिना पंडितजी के इज़ाज़त के पहले पॉसिबल न हो पाता था।
मैंने मूर्ति मेकर के हाथ में पंद्रह रूपये रखे और अपनी मूर्ति बड़े कोमलता से उठाकर साइकिल के पिछले कैरियर पे एडजस्ट किया और उसके लकड़ी से बने बेस को कैरियर से रस्सी के सहारे कस कर बांध दिया! मित्र नें मूर्ति को पीछे से हलके हाथ से पकड़ लिया. साइकिल का स्टैंड छाट्ट्काते हुए निकल लिया!
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Book Review: VoiceMates
Review: 4.5/5
Author: Anamika Mishra
Publishers: JAICO
About the book: Tulip Hill is an obedient and intelligent daughter to her disciplinarian parents. She has been a topper throughout her school, because her parents wanted her to be. Now, they want her to enroll in one of the best colleges. But Tulip harbors the desire to become a singer, for music is her only passion that helps her see through life's miseries.
Then there is Sam-witty, easy - going and flirty. Both Tulip and Sam share their love for music. Yet, both dream of a different life.
What are these dreams? What happens when they meet and enter the biggest duet competition together? Will their love blossom during this emotional roller-coaster?
Join the voiceMates in their musical journey to know more!
Review: Like everybody has passion for something apart from study, Sam and Tupil loved music. Study is most important for parents. Not for kids, generally!
Tulip is a topper, because she has to be. Most of the kids have to be toppers in their class, school, district, state and country when we talk of India!
If you have love and passion for something genuinely, each and everything of this world try to get you that thing. Same happens with Tulip who wants to win a duet music competition. But to participate she needs a partner. She is a kid of very rich parents but she has limited access to things, place and people.
She get it one day. She meets Sam coincidentally when she is singing a song before kids. She loves singing so she sings with her heart. Life become easy for her as her partner looks perfect to win the duet competition.
Like in most of the Bollywood films there are villains. VoiceMates also have it. Tulip's parents who hate music and such talent based reality shows. Tulip anyhow manages to clear the rounds and reaches semifinals which she and Sam clear easily.
For finals they have to perform outside their city for which they have to stay there for a week. Sam convinces Tulip's parents to let her perform. The parents show their love for their only kid and allow.
At the beginning of this musical journey Tulip starts feeling something for Sam but Sam takes her as his singing partner only. At the end just before finals Sam introduces a beautiful girl to Tulip as his fiancée. Just before live final performance. Tulip anyhow controls herself and finishes her lines of the song with full of emotion as the song is based on her present condition so she sings it with her heart and emotion.
They win the show!
Tulip learns that shedding tears for the one who was never hers is useless.
My view: Author has introduced something fresh and new which should be appreciated. Such stories should be penned down. I loved the innocence that the author has maintained in the characters throughout the story. This is her achievement. The story is for all age groups. The author has kept the language plane that attracts vast readers in India. Good effort by the editor who has made the book error free.
I wish Anamika all the best for her next book.
Sunday, September 13, 2015
DUSU Election, Result, Future and Freshers!
Thursday, August 6, 2015
My interview with Hindustan Times
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Sati System; Modified!
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Breaking Up the Shackles: Journey begins!
Thursday, June 25, 2015
My interview in writerstroy
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Pain and Love
I'll come with new stories soon.
Lots of short stories are there in the pipeline.
Will be back.
Much Love.
Friday, June 12, 2015
Breaking Up the Shackles; first review
Breaking up the shackles: My first novel
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Indian Education System
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Death spares no one
He woke up early, jumped off his bed, switched off the night lamp and rushed to the kitchen in hurry with totally fucked up mood.
He switched the gas stove on and looked for the tea pan. He found it stuck among the other utensils on one of the shelves. He struggled to pull it out. Some of them fell on the ground and the kitchen filled with musical rhythm as if a kid was weeping monotonously after he got slapped by his mother. He placed his feet on them - one by one to calm them down.
He threw tea pan on the flame and poured some water into it and then added milk into it. He didn’t wait for anything and added sugar and tea leaf into the liquid mixture. He scratched his head and ran to the balcony.
Dawn was about to break down. He looked into trees and scratched his head.
He had woken up irritated. Every second the thought of death was creeping over him from his toe to head.
I’ll die soon. The words echoed in his head.
He came back to the kitchen and found the tea overflowing the tea pan. The flame had died. He turned the switch off, separated tea from the wet leaf and drank whole in a go.
He ran back to the balcony, stopped at the waist length boundary wall, scratched his head and then suddenly he began to run and ran into the bed room and then to sitting room and then to bed room again. He had just visualized his death and all he could do was; running away as soon as possible.
‘Death spares no one.’ He said to himself and laughed.
He was a tough guy. He pulled his shorts up and tightened the lace of it, wore sports shoes without thinking of socks, picked the bunch of keys from the table and rushed downstairs towards the parking lot.
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He was riding his bike now thinking ‘I’ll die soon.’ And riding bike was his last wish before death.
On the way, he saw a pond on his right hand side. He stopped and made his bike stand on its stand and began to run towards the pond. He crossed the road without caring of the vehicles which were running down the road with great speed from both the sides. It was his one long jump and he sank into the dirty water.
‘You’ll die soon.’ He heard the words echoing from all sides of the water. His feet touched the soft mud at the bottom of the pond and got reflected. His body began to float up softy. A group of little fishes paused swimming before him and said ‘you’ll die soon.’ They laughed and swum away. He popped up to the surface of water and swum to the bank of the pond and ran to his bike.
His bike had touched the speed of one fifty. He was not driving the bike now. The bike was driving him. It stopped on its own. He jumped off and began to run into a roadside forest. He saw some men sitting crouched with some water bottles on the ground.
‘You, fucking assholes, you’re dirtying the environment.’ He said and grabbed one of them with his collars. He made the half naked man stand up and began to slap him on his face. The man looked confused. Others rose up with their water bottles and began to run away, leaving their shit behind to fertile the soil.
He chased them into the forest but they disappeared into tress. He had into another world. He saw trees speaking to each other. They had big face and big eyes of the shape of egg. They spotted him and stopped the conversation.
‘You’ll die soon.’ They said and laughed.
He scratched his head and ran towards unknown direction.
It was another world. It was a different place. He saw some groups of huts with their upside down. Men had four hands, one face and three eyes on their back. Ladies had huge breasts above their buttocks on their back and their feet were missing. Kids were playing, running on their heads and feet flying up towards the sky. When they saw him, they stopped. Men, women and kids surrounded him. And behind them the huts had walked little to encircle the crowd. He stood at the center of the forest, surrounded by them. Then they asked him to dance before them.
‘I don’t know dancing.’ He said.
‘No problem. We’ll teach you the art of dancing. Welcome to our world.’ They chanted together.
‘Who the fuck are you?’ He asked.
‘We’re spirits.’
‘What?’
‘Yes. And you’re the one as well.’
He fainted and collapsed on the ground which was shacking