Kavita se Kranti ka ek asafal prayatn(feeling Mudi tonight)

Kya bataon kab mujhse kavita chhoot gayi
Roti ke chakkar mein tanhayi rooth gayi

Kavi mitron se milna tab kum hua
Mehfilon mein jana jab band hua

Bacha-kucha saali mohabbat loot gayi
Kya bataon kab mujhse kavita chhoot gayi

Kavita roothi, kalam phooti
Mohabbat ne duniya looti

Ab ye padh kar lag hi raha hoga aapko
Sar mein dard ho hi raha hoga aapko

Kalam meri thi laal, padey-padey bhagua ho gayi
Kya bataon kab mujhse kavita chhoot gayi

Phir ek mahashay gaddi pe baithey
Chaudi chhaati pe aise ainthey

Pahlaj aur Gajendra ko bhi bithaya
Kehtein hain bahuton ko marwaya
Nalanda se Amartya nikal aya

Sunaana tha sach magar keh kar jhooth gayi
Kya bataon kab mujhse kavita chhoot gayi

Aese mahaul mein kavita bhala kaun likhta bhai
Kavi mitron sang mil kar maine andolan kiya bhai

Do ko goli lagi, do paagal huey do ko jeevan raas na aya
Mohabbat gayi, roti gayi, kismat ne na saath nibhaya 

Sar mein dard toh ho hi raha hoga aapko
Ab ye padh kar lag hi raha hoga aapko

Kaise ghar mein ghus kar mujhe CBI koot gayi
Kya bataon kab mujhse kavita chhoot gayi

Ab ye aalam hai ki laptop pe sar patakta hoon
Apne ma-baap tak ko main ab khatakta hoon

Kya likhoon, kis par likhoon, kiske liye likhoon
Likhne se kya hoga, kavita main kyun likhoon

'Kavita khao, kavita pehno, kapde pe kavita likho
Jungle sab katenge ab, ab kapde pe hi kavita likho’

Jaate-jaate bhi saali dekar NaMo ka suit gayi
Kya bataon kab mujhse kavita chhoot gayi.

Close Encounter of the Crazy Kind

I finally met some crazy Christians! So, my friend and I went on this double date the other day. We were on our way to get some Tibetan dumplings when the two girls asked to stop at the bible shop. Imagine my shock and surprise because I didn't know them at all(my friend had set us up) and I was really looking forward to the Tibetan dumplings being in my mouth. Not to spoil the evening, we stopped at the bible shop. They went in and came out ten minutes later sying that they just witnessed a miracle! They had arrived at the shop just as it was closing and the kindly shopkeeper had let them make a last-minute purchase. According to the two girls this proved that god is indeed real and answers prayers.

My friend and I just looked at each other. The chances of any action tonight were completely destroyed. Well, atleast we had the dumplings. So we got back into the car and tried to make the best of things. Suddenly, one of the girls started giving a long testimonial to the reverend over the phone concerning the miracle that had just happened. The other girl, seeing my obviously disgusted face, decided to "share her faith" with me, which rapidly descended into a debate about the veracity of the bible and ended in her praying for my soul and me wanting to strangle her. All this while my agnostic friend was interjecting with vigorous shouts of "Buddhism rocks!!!"

Incidentally, those turned out to be the worst Tibetan dumplings I have ever had. My friend and I went home courting headaches and upset tummies, all alone. Needless to say, we won't be seeing those two girls again.

Amazingly, both of those girls are assistant professors of Sociology at a good university. If I was religious, I would be praying for their students.

My response to the famous "Atheist Professor With No Brain" story...

here is the link to the essay for which this post is a response: http://www.preparingforeternity.com/sciencefaith.htm

Kunle would probably never speak to me again. Sorry man, but its ridiculous that you would post that on your wall.

No way that was Einstein man, stop making historical claims without quoting your sources. Its very misleading.

This is so ridiculous it's embarrassing. No professor of philosophy would be tricked by a stupid word game like this.

I don't know who that professor was, and I don't even have a college degree, but even I can see the stupidity of that argument.

That story was obviously written by someone who never attended school:

1. "Cold" and "Darkness" are just terms of language and how our senses(sight, touch) work. Scientists use terms like "temperature" and "luminosity" which are perfectly understood by even high-school students. If that guy was a college student he wouldn't even ask such questions!

2. Electromagnetism(the theory that explains electricity and magnetism are two facets of the same force) has withstood innumerable tests. The electromagnetic behavior of elementary particles is very well understood today, even one of the best understood fields in physics. Everyone has seen electricity(lightning) and magnetism(pattern made by iron fillings when placed over a bar-magnet). There is no faith involved here.

3. Evolution by natural selection is a theory that has been proven again and again through hundreds of years since its inception. It is a process that takes place over generations upon generations, the entire fields of genetics and paleontology depend upon this theory. To ignore the hundreds of years of research and the mountain of evidence in favor of evolution is just plain ignorant. Explaining why and how it works in detail would take me several pages. We did not evolve from monkeys! We had a common ancestor millions of years ago, and monkeys and humans evolved simultaneously. We are still evolving.

4. Even now, if evolution was somehow proven to be incorrect(which is extremely unlikely) and a new theory seems more plausible, biologists will immediately discard it and start using the new theory. Science works on observation. So far all observations of the natural world agree with evolution by natural selection, and NONE of the observations agree with the "God" hypothesis. The very fact that you have a useless appendix inside your belly is proof of evolution and how it is still going on. A world that was created by a god would be very different from our world, eg. we create robots that are fully functional, without any useless parts.

5. Why would anyone want to feel, touch or worst of all "smell" someone's brain? Just get an MRI-scan done and check your own brain out! These are just emotional arguments without any logic. As a fellow filmmaker, I am surprised you could not see through such a simple soap-opera like farce. Moreover, actually asking people to post it on their walls too is ridiculous!


Again, sorry dude, but this time you challenged my "beliefs" and we all have to fight for what we believe in, don't we? ;)



"Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true."

---Friedrich Nietzsche

Say yes to sanity and no to god. Read a fucking science-book. Peace.

Fellini on Fellini

Just saw Fellini's 8 1/2.....I confess I know absolutely nothing about filmmaking.

Disheartening thought, one might say...but now I know where I stand and everything is so much clearer now. I'm actually rejoicing in the loss of my ignorance!