ROZ EK SHER

ओ मेरे अरबाब, क्या तारे नुमायां कर गये
पैदा हुए, बी.ए. किये, नौकर बने और मर गये
- इक़बाल

o mere arbaab, kyaa taare numaayaan kar gaye
paidaa huey, B.A. kiye, naukar bane aur mar gaye
- Iqbal

O my lord, what stars have you caused to appear!
They take birth, graduate, slave at a job and die.


Sher contributed by Man Mohan Das

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Book of the day

PARSHVACARITRAM: THE LIFE OF PARSHVA
By Acarya Gunabhadra
Sanskrit text + English translation
Ed. and translated into English by Prof Willem Bollée
Paperback
Rs. 60

ROZ EK SHER

तुम्हारे साथ रहकर
अक्सर मुझे लगा है
कि हम असमर्थताओं से नहीं
सम्भावनाओं से घिरे हैं,
हर दीवार में द्वार बन सकता है
और हर द्वार से पूरा का पूरा
पहाड़ गुज़र सकता है।


tumhaare saath rahkar
aksar mujhe lagaa hai
ki ham asamarthataaon se nahiin
sambhaavanaaon se ghire hain
har diivaar mein dvaar ban saktaa hai
aur har dvaar se puuraa kaa puraa
pahaad guzar saktaa hai


Living with you
I have often thought
that we are surrounded
not by incapabilities
but by possibilites.

A door can be built
through each wall
and through each door
an entire mountain can pass.


Poem contributed by Kirti Sandheliya

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Book of the day

MAHABHARATA OF VYASA
Sanskrit text + English translation
Eng. tr by M N Dutta
Edited with an Introduction by I C Sharma & O N Bimali
Set of 9 books
English
2008     250 x 190 mm     6000 pages in 9 volumes
Hardcover     Rs. 7000

ROZ EK SHER

यह कहाँ की दोस्ती है, जो बने हैं दोस्त नासेह
कोई चाराका होता, कोई ग़म गुसार होता
- ग़ालिब

ye kahaan kii dostii hai, jo bane hain dost naaseh
koii chaar'aakaar hotaa, koii gham gusaar hotaa
- Ghalib

What kind of friendship is this, when friends preach giving up love
There should have been some last remedy, someone sympathetic

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The first ever autobiography written in an Indian language!

ARDHAKATHANAKA
Autobiography
By Banarasidasa
Khadi boli + Modern Hindi translation
By Rohini Chowdhury
Hindi
2008     200 x 130 mm     228 pp
Paperback     Rs. 175