अपना परिचय देने से पहले मैं अपने जन्म के बारे मे बता दूँ, क्योकि परिचय तो अनजानों को दिया जाता है..मैं तो आपकी हुँ..आपकी अपनी,
कैसे..
अरे बता दूँगी..चलो एक कहानी से शुरु करते हैं..
तो हुआ युँ कि जब ब्रम्हा जी ने सॄष्टी कि रचना कि तो सोचा कि अब तो सब बना ही दिया है.. सब चलता रहेगा..थोडा आराम कर लिया जाये..लेकिन जाते जाते उन्होने सोचा कि एक नज़र तो डाल लें कि सब चल कैसा रहा है..
देखा कि सब आराम से पडे हुए हैं, कोई गती ही नहीं है..सब जडवत हैं..अब तो उन्हे चिंता हो गयी, इतनी मेहनत से रचना कि लेकीन अभिकल्पना पे पानी फ़िरता नजर आ रहा था.
अब क्या करें, थोडी देर दिमाग लगाया किंतु कुछ समझ नहीं आया..
फ़िर उन्होने अभीयंता विश्वकर्मा को बुलाया और पुछा कि ये जो मैने रचना कि है इतनी मेहनत से इसमें क्या त्रुटी रह गयी है, कुछ काम क्यों नहीं कर रहा..
विश्वकर्मा ने निरिक्षण-परिक्षण किया फिर कहा कि प्रभु इन प्राणीयों मे कोई ऐसा यंत्र नहीं है जो इन्हे कार्य करने के लिये उद्वित करे सो कुछ ऐसा यंत्र लगाईये कि सब उस यंत्र के प्रभाव से काम करना शुरु करें,
ब्रम्हा ने कहा तुम ही कोइ सुझाव दो..
फिर विश्वकर्मा ने मुझे बना कर सभी प्राणीयों मे लगा दिया.
कुछ ही क्षण बिते होंगे कि सम्पुर्ण जगत चलायमान हो गया..
आशा है कि आप अब तक मुझे पहचान गये होंगे..
जी, मैं हूँ आपकी अपनी भुख,चाहो जिस संज्ञा से सम्बोधित कर लो..
सोच के देखो, आज जो भी हो रहा है, या कहो कि होता है, या होता आ रहा है, कही न कही से मैं ही उसकी कारक हूँ,
सुकर्म से लेके दुस्कर्म तक, सभी कारणों का कारक मैं ही हुँ..
गण से गणतंत्र तक सभी मेरे प्रभाव से प्रभावित हैं..
अपने विषय मे कुछ और तथ्यों को ले कर मै जल्द ही प्रस्तुत होउँगी,
तब तक के लिये आज्ञा दें
-ॠ

I just opened the cab's door and asked the driver to rush to airport(DevanaHalli, Bangalore), as always I was fighting with the enemy(read as "time").

The guy(driver) was in "Good Mood", and why not, its "Friday night" for him. During the entire journey to airport he was talking about him, his family, his girl friend and every thing which he must have wanted to share with any of his close friend. I was practicing my "active listening" course with him by saying 'ok','aha' at times, trying to get a quick nap before the flight.

Just after Devanahalli signal he mis-judged the road bump, lost control over cab and rammed on a road side tree. Due to sudden jerk, I opened my eyes.It was smoky all around. I tried to find the driver, but, he was not on his seat. I came out of car.
Suddenly I felt that someone is behind me. I turned around and found a tall guy standing behind me, with hands folded and looking at me angrily.

Before I could say something he said, "who are you and why did you wake me up?".
I replied breathlessly "Who, me?, I am an IT associate, and its not me who woke you up, I was on my way to airport to catch the flight, something happened and when I opened my eyes, it was smoky all around , I came out of cab and found you standing behind me, Now you tell me who are you? and where is the driver?,
oh I will miss my flight"
"Hold on" he shouted at me. I am "Dev" of this area "DevanaHalli".
"Dev"?
"haven't you heard of Dev, Danava, kinner, Yaksha"?
"Oh ya ya.. " So you are "Dev D" Dev of Devanahalli...
No, I don't like this name Dev D, call me DD. I was in meditation since years in this tree, your driver have disturbed my meditation, that's why I have killed him and now its your turn..
What?? My turn?, Are you mad? Don't you dare doing that. You don't know who I am. You think with these pranks you will make fool of me? are you from "MTV bakra"?
Human, you are insulting me. I am really a Dev, and I can do any thing I want. See this...
He waved his hand in air and it started drizzling.
I said, Hey DD, don't be so kiddish, I have seen many of these things in Bollywood and Hollywood movies. show me something else.
That guy really got angry and stretched his palms, in fraction of second he was holding a fireball.
Now this was something diff, he was about to throw that ball to me, but I was not in a mood to play catch-catch with him, so I stopped him.
I said, Well, If you really can do any thing, arrange a cab for me and you can go back to your meditation,apologies for disturbing you unknowingly. I really need to rush.
Its not that simple you Human, you have disturbed me now you have to pay the price.
look, In the time of credit cards, you think I will be having cash with me? I don't have much cash with me now I have to go to ATM for that, tell me what you want?
He said, I am impress with your fearlessness, answer my 3 questions, If they are fine with me I will let you go, else you have to die like your driver died.
I was not at all in a mood to waste my time and also not in mood to face in Q&A round, but still I thought, lets answer his question and get back my way.
ok, fine, but before that you have to make sure that I don't miss my flight, and you will grant life to the driver and make his car back in normal. Deal??
Ok, Deal.
Then shoot...
Ok, I will ask all my questions related to your field only but your answers should be precise and correct?
Q1. what is uploaded and what is downloaded?
I got shocked, there are many things that can be uploaded or downloaded. If I will say somthing I need to backup my answer also, after a while I answered.
Photos are uploaded(on sites like Orkut, FB, flicker) and any sort of movies are downloaded(from any torrent).
Woha, you are correct I have checked your answer, it matches with maximum percentage.
Oh Great, narrow escape I was thinking..He must have been impressed with idea of "10 ka dum".

Q2. As I can see you humans are not God-fearing any more; you are developing new technologies which can create clone of yours and now you have all kind of vaccination of various disease. What on this earth you fear the most?
Again this was tough one, I said, there are things of which we fear, like Release(as, the feature changes just before the code freeze date), client demo(the demo m/c will be infected by some serious virus just before demo) and critical bugs(which will creep in just before the release).
Hmmm...quite satisfactory

Q3. What is the key to successful life?
I started thinking, coz this was totally unexpected..
you don't have answer?
Now he is trying to trap me and hang me till death....wait a sec..."Hang", There lies the answer.
Oh, no..., yes,... I mean I have..There can not be only one key which can lead to successful life, I mean there are combination of keys like Ctrl+Alt+Del, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.
There was a long silence, after that he broke into laugh and said Great, good answer.. you are an IT professional in true sense. You can go now. Your flight will be waiting for you when you will reach airport. Take care...

Wake up Sir, We have reached? Sir..
Aa, haan, we reached?
Yes Sir.. you were sleeping throughout the journey.
I gave the cash and drew my trolley bag towards the check-in counter, I am still puzzled, was that just a dream?

Yours
Rishabh

जागो रे..
आपने ये विज्ञापन तो देखा ही होगा, अन्यथा सुना तो होगा ही..जो अभी तक सो रहे हैं उन्हे मैं बता दूँ कि जनहीत मे जारी इस आन्दोलन का उद्देश्य है भारत के नागरिकों को मतदान हेतु जागरुक करना, चाहे वे किसी भी धर्म, भाषा, जाती या सम्प्रदाय के हों.
सच मे यह नितांत आवश्यक पहल कि गयी है, हम भारतीयों ने भी इसका समर्थन किया, और, आगे जन जन मे चेतना कि एक हल्की ही सही परन्तु लहर जागी है..
चलो कुछ लोग तो जागे.. अब इस से आगे क्या?? क्या इतना जागना ही पर्याप्त है?
मेरे विचार से नहीं, जिन महानुभावों ने भी इस यज्ञ का आवाहान किया है, उन्हे प्रणाम करते हुए मैं कुछ और विनती करता हूँ.. अगर त्रुटी हो तो क्षमा करें..
चलो मान लिया कि हम जागे..सब लोगों ने मतदान में हिस्सा लिया..
पर ये भी तो सोचो.. चुना किसे??
हो सकता है मतदान करने वाले हाथ नये हैं परन्तु जो चुनाव लड रहे हैं वो??
वो तो अनुपातत्तः अभी भी वहीं है जो हमारे जागने के पहले थे.. और हमे चुनना भी इन्मे से ही है..
कैसा दुर्भाग्य है ये..
ऐसा नहीं लगता कि इन्मे भी परिवर्तन होना चहिये?
पार्टी प्रमुख से ले कर कार्यकरता तक मे एक मुलभुत परिवर्तन होना चहिये.. नहीं तो इस अध् खुली नींद से ये कैसा जागना??
विचार आप स्वयं करें...
माँ भारती सबका मार्ग प्रस्शथ करें..
आपका
-ॠषभ

Hey, I am done with my work...will you come tonight..
I asked with eagerness.

Even though I was tired after having a long day...
Its just my feeling for her, to be with her.. which gives me immense pleasure..

She said.. I will try my best honey, but you know.. I have already lot of requests to finish tonight..

Me(with annoying tone):You always make excuses when I call you...

She:Darling, you know na.. I am from a good family and cant come at night if its late, and above all you will ask me to stay with you till late in the morning.

Me: ya ya, now you will start the same old tape, change your habits, early to bed...blah blah.. cant you see how desperate I am for you, tonight..every night..
You know.. it may possible that some one on earth love you a lot...But I love you the most... from bottom of my heart...sacchi...

she laughed...and said..mucchi..

So, You are coming or I have to wait as usual... I Asked..

She: See now you started all the old dialogue.. I know darling you love me.. Even I want to be with you..But.. some how its not happening.. What to do....

Your wish...what can I say..

A deep silence from both ends...
Now, I can clearly feel her breath, the uneasiness she was going through..
She want to say something but she is not able to...
We both were waiting the other one to start the conversation...after a long while...she spoke, Her voice was full of emotion and mixed with sadness...
You know, At times I feel bad because of you, You love me so much, but barely we spend 3-4 hours together, All because of your bad habits(with bit anger in her voice)

Now this is something which I really cant make her understand. So, I thought better keep silence for some more time.
She understood my silence..
she changed her tone and asked..in her sweet voice...
Ok..what I will get if I come to you, and be with you.. all over the long weekend...

Me: Why you are behaving like common girls now, what I will get.. what you will give me..
Don't you think whatever you wished for you always got from me, You asked me to miss my internal exams cause you want to spend time with me, I have missed internal exams during college days..
Just to be with you I have missed many get together with old friends, office parties.. Before even you wish, all your wishes I have granted without a second thought in my mind...what else you want honey...

She said nothing...Again a silence...A deep painful silence... all around me....

After 2-3 hours...I tried calling her again...but no answer... just dropped her a message...

I am waiting for you GS(Good Sleep).. Please come..I badly need you...I cant live without you..

Still waiting for you..and your love for me...

Love you a lot..Miss you a lot..
Yours,
Rishabh

कुछ आडी, कुछ तिरछी,
कुछ गाढी, कुछ हल्की,
लकीरें मेरे हाथ की..
ढुँढता रहता हुँ अक्सर इन लकीरों मे,
एक लकीर तेरे नाम की..

तुम, जो कहते थे ले के हाथों मे हाथ
मिल जायेंगी हमारी लकीरें, हम रहेंगे साथ साथ
कुछ आढी तिरछी लकीरें, तुम भी बनाया करते थे,
हाथ और दिवारों पे,
और कहते थे, ये होंगी निशानीयाँ हमारे प्यार की,
ढुँढता रहता हुँ उन लकीरों मे,
एक लकीर तेरे नाम की..

कुछ मालुम भी है,
कुछ दिल भी जानता है,
कि इन लकीरों में, कोई लकीर नहीं तेरे नाम कि
फिर भी ना जाने क्यों, ढुँढता रहता हुँ...
एक लकीर तेरे नाम की..

There is a saying....."Beggars are NOT Choosers".
Actually, some people whom I know use this quote frequently. I thought to give some time on this quote..So I started observing Beggars, you can find a few near Tea-stall,on Railway platforms and in some other crowded places.

I found something really interesting about them which denies the above saying.

They choose the location, They choose their get-ups, they choose their potential customers not only this, they also choose the timings.

Location: You will never find a beggar on lonesome or less traveled road, unless its(the beggar) is God; waiting for you.. to grant your wishes or its a robber; waiting for you to rob.

Beggars are very social. You can find them at all the crowded place such as Railway station, bus-stop, park etc. , they try interact as much as various "personalities" as they can, not like our modern society, in which few of them dont even know who is staying at next door.

Get-up: Beggars are so good at picking up the attire to dress themselves, that they will easily grab your attention.
After all the get-up plays a major role in any business . I would suggest the sales team of any IT company or any other company for that matter,to take a learning from them, The way they dress themselves, the way they present themselves, the voice modulation and various other things to grab the attention of their potential customers.

Choosing The Potential Customers: I believe beggars are master in this, (like the ticket checker in local train who knows very well that who is traveling without ticket, and grab him/her). Beggars know very well who can be the most suitable potential customer.
For example,think about this scenario(may possible, this have happened to you as well).. when you are sitting in a park,(some how managing from your "busy schedule") to spend some time from with your boyfriend/girl friend or say husband and wife, suddenly a small girl with messy look appears in front of you and start touching your loved ones feet, pulling her sari or skirt and asking for some money or food. This is the situation where you would like to give her something and get rid of her.Notable point here is, these beggars will not choose/target the guy sitting lonely in the same park(of course he is not the potential customer).
No need to say that they have a good marketing strategy about how to target a potential customer.
Not only sales team, even the Marketing team should take lesson from them about how to target a customer.

Timings: Again a scenario, the moment your bike or car stops at traffic signal, you can see how many of them are around you. Dont know if you have noticed it or not, you will find the number of beggars increased in holidays or weekends., They know very well that in which part of the day they should execute their "business" for maximum earning/profit.

Gone those days when you give 10 or 20 paise to a beggar and get blessings, Nowadays even they know about the "inflation" and diminishing value of money in the market, just that they dont carry a hording saying "less than 2 Rs or 5 Rs is not acceptable".
Some of them are so smart that they will give change for 10 Rs note, so that you can give them 2 Rs or 5 Rs.

and I found..... "Beggars too are Choosers".

Yours truly,
Rishabh

धुँआ...
धुँआ होम का हो, या व्योम का,
आग से हो, या राख से,
नहीं करता वो अटखेलियाँ हवा के साथ,
ना ही दिखाता है वो करतब लुभावने,
उमडता-घुमडता रहता है, अपने आप मे
सच तो ये है कि वो जलता है, ना जाने किस विछोह के संताप मे...

धुँआ...
लिपटना चाहता है, एक आखिरी बार,
हर एक उस लौ से, जो ईठलाती है, बलखाती है,
अपने उन्माद मे,
पर धुँआ...
जलता है,शायद उस लौ से विछोह के संताप मे...

धुँआ...
सिखाता है आत्मदान करना..
अपने अस्तीत्व पर, ना कभी अभिमान करना,
सिखाता है वो हमेसा उपर उठना.,
व्यापक रुप से व्याप्त करना अपने आप को इस संसार मे.,
फ़िर भी वो जलता है,ना जाने किस विछोह के संताप मे...

--ॠ