Thursday, August 07, 2014

The Muser behind the Wandering Heart. . .

Welcome Friend. . . 

The fact that your inner curiosity did prompted you to click "Äbout Me" make me feel blessed and elated that perhaps you did find some solace in some of my writings that aroused your curiosity enough to know about the Muser behind the Wandering Heart. Surely our lives are perhaps intervened somehow in this divine cosmos to let us meet here in the electronic domain of our existence. 

Before dwelling further just a confession first, I actually postponed this About Me section for quite a long time as I still remember those bouts of goose bumps I had when I needed to fill those few lines about me on social media; and here writing a complete page on the same…Phew!!! But then suddenly the realization stumbled upon that this is necessary for you to know a bit about me to strike that chord further.

So, who’s the Muser anyway - a qualified accountant by profession working in a finance domain in a private sector struggling & juggling between the spread sheets and the slides to carve out a niche for himself amidst this fast paced mechanized life. But HEYYY. . .that's not the real ME, so who am I . . .
I am the one who dream with an open eye and loves his world of dreams more than anything else. .
I am the one who refuses to converge with the crowd and adores his solitude more than anything else. . 
I am the one who value those little nothings of life and treasure them more than anything else. .
I am the one who constantly love to churn the thinking machine and smile upon the thoughts more than anything else. .
I am the one who can spend hours staring at the moon kissed sky and wondering about the stars more than anything else. .
I am the one who can shell a fortune to get drench in the rain playing with the raindrops more than anything else. .
I am the one who wants to add colors to so many lives and waiting for his turn more than anything else. .
I am the one who doesn't want to follow this daily race of survival and lead his own life his way more than anything else. .
I am the one who carry thousands of dreams inside the heart and firmly believe that one day these will come true more than anything else. .
I am the one who is still a Work in Progress and who’s still figuring out as to Who am I more than anything else. .
Well, the above would have given you a fair idea about me. . .

I’m an accountant by profession and a dreamer by choice. Being an introvert, I always had this habit of scribbling my thoughts since childhood when I used to maintain a journal (diary) to spurt the whirling thoughts and emotions as I always found it easier to weave the same with words in my diary than to share the same with anyone around. With the advent of time, the shackles of the being in the professional world played its part and the diary writing stopped but the life just went on. However, there remained a small void within that awaited fulfillment. Then somehow this blogging idea struck and it did took me a while to actually convince myself that MS Word and laptop keys would have the same aura & emotion that was once felt with the paper diary and writing pen. And to say that I am totally convinced about this now would be an overstatement as I am one of those who still prefer paper books to electronic ones just to enjoy the touch of the paper and aroma of those fading pages. Further these tech things always have the tendency to trouble me more than what I am currently doing to you with this section :)

I love reading books and more than that writing – be it about anything. For me writing always is a satisfying experience especially when the end product is churned out strictly as per your expectation. It always gives that gratification for taking a step closer to realize what you always aspire in life. In that sense, I've always envied people who know upfront what they were meant to do; as for me the life has always been a constant search of knowing and belonging to a purpose that engage my heart – the Lakshya (purpose) of Life. 

I am a strong believer of the importance of “those little nothings of life” which apparently may seem trivial & small but which in actual forms the beads of life’s garland giving us fragrance to cherish through-out. The various facets & constituents of nature – the moon, the stars, the night, the breeze takes me to a different world altogether (you might find the impressions of these in some of the blog posts) and I just go bonkers over how magical the nature and its colours can be.

Talking about the musings, the first post of this blog does give a fair idea about the nature & intent of the blog. This blog is just an attempt to rekindle thoughts and share snippets of life that fills the cosmos around. It’s not about any one particular thing or notion but intends to capture varied emotions and thoughts which are simple yet not ordinary. This intend to capture the admixture of thoughts that lay there silent waiting to be discovered. We humans have the tendency to get lose the real "us" amidst the multiple layers of the roles and expectations that are assigned to us. As the time passes by, we fall under the false pretext that the veil that we have assumed over the time is actually what we are & our own true self gets buried down that veil. This blog is just an attempt to lift that veil and fill those emptiness within and around.

The list below would give you some idea about the nature of the blog posts.
  • Scribblings: These are intended to be the random snippets that just stir the heart compel you to spare some thought over these - simple but not ordinary. 
  • Book Reviews: As I had said above, I love reading a lot so you would find my insights on some of the books read by me. These in no way reflect the exactness of the book but are just my impressions & thoughts about the same.
  • Poetry: These include some attempts of mine to create some verses to express thoughts that so often than not touch our lives leaving us wondering about these ever and after.
  • Ghazal: Well, these are the bouquet of (again) my random attempts to try a different form of verse inspired by the likes of Mirza Ghalib, Gulzar & Mir always stupefying me with their power of imagination & power of words.
  • Shirdi Diary: Sai Baba of Shirdi has been an integral part of my life always lending a silent support and providing that positivity whenever life seems to be falling in the darker pit of negativity.

And there’s a lot more . . . which still lies sleeping there inside the dark corner of the heart - half conceived, half composed, half visualized. The journey has just started and there are currently fewer posts in each of the threads above; stay connected, there’s much more to come.

While the thoughts are woven with the strings of the words, what remains to be seen whether they does manage to form a bridge for you to cross and listen to the beating. I would sincerely try and hope that you do have stupendous time here and the efforts & moments that you have spared to come here doesn't go unrewarded.

Please do spare some more moments to drop in your comment about the post, page or anything you feel like. . . it always feels great to hear from you :)

I wish you a beautiful and cherished life filled with brighter moments of joy, love and contentment.

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Shubh Life . . . Om Sai Ram

Friday, August 01, 2014

Waking up from the Slumber. . .



“. . . the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation” ~Marcel Proust

Life has its own peculiar ways to tell us that its all right to slow down and hide away momentarily just to come up again with more rigour & aspirations.

It’s indeed been a time and to say that I was away primarily due to my work commitments or urgencies in life would just be an overstatement. Actually, its been a case of sheer laziness spurring from perhaps the lack of inspirations. Actually lots and lots of things were happening in life compelling me to sit back and take inventory of the situation.

Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Book Review: THE BLOOD TELEGRAM: India’s secret war in East Pakistan by Gary J Bass

~Om Sai Ram~

Book Details. . .

Title: The Blood Telegram
Author: Gary J Bass
Genre:  Non Fiction / Historical
Publisher: Random House (2013)
Pages: 368 Pages
Price: INR 342 (Flipkart)

Rating: 4/5

Book Review. . .

This review was done for The Tales Pensieve (TTP) under their reviewer program.

The Seventies decade of the Twentieth century started on a very inconsolable note especially for the South Asian countries. There were series of events & agitations in eastern Pakistan that culminated in the Indo-Pak war of 1971 eventually leading to the birth of a new nation called ‘Bangladesh’. The irony of these events is that despite being involving one of the major homicides & exodus of those times (after the infamous partition of India), these remain one of the grossly forgotten incident of world history.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Book Review: ENGLISH BITES! My Fullproof English Learning Formula by Manish Gupta

Book Details. . .

Title: English Bites! My Fullproof English Learning Formula
Author: Manish Gupta
Genre: Self Help (English Improvement), Non Fiction
Publisher: Penguin (2012)
Pages: 344 Pages
Price: INR 125

Rating: 3.75/5

Book Review. . .

This review was done for The Tales Pensieve (TTP) under their reviewer program.

Are you one of those wandering souls longing to have proficiency in English language but the ghost of which continue to scare you away…then English Bites is the book for you. It is surely for all those who swear to have been smitten and bitten by English – smitten as being sincerely wanting to conquer the phobia of the language and bitten by being lost in the vicious circle of making an attempt  to overcome the phobia & becoming more intrigued by its manner. Before going further into the synopsis of the book, it would be worthwhile for me to make a confession…I was not really motivated to read this book as I have never found those self help books my cup of tea. But before choosing this book for review I had limited choices, as it was my 1st month as a Book Critic at TTP, so I opted for this one. But now I think, opting for this one was indeed a blessing in disguise.

Monday, June 16, 2014

Book Review: THE HOMING PIGEONS by Sid Bahri



Book Details. . .



Title: The Homing Pigeons
Author: Sid Bahri
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Srishti Publishers & Distributors (2013)
Pages: 328 Pages
Price: INR 98
Rating: 3.75/5


Book Synopsis. . .



The greatest irony of being in love is loving the right person at wrong time without confession; having the wrong person at right time again without confession and finally realizing the love for right person at right time with due confession.

The Homing Pigeons comes across as a heart touching story encompassing the aforesaid ironies of not so perfect love between the two imperfect souls – Aditya and Radhika. Love, at times, comes across as a puzzle to solve with the head and the heart voicing their opinion in different directions often making us commit acts we don’t want, landing us in the situation we don’t foresee.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

~ Nearer My God to Thee, Nearer to Thee. . . ~




My initial experience of this magical hymn dates back to the release of original soundtrack of the movie Titanic by James Horner which is often considered as the last piece of music played by the musicians on the Titanic. However, did the band actually played this song before the final plunge of Titanic, still remains an uncertain fact, the reality of which (perhaps) lay buried inside the heart of the ocean. At that point of time it was nothing more than a compilation of fewer musical notes rendered just perfectly on a violin making it an apt example of musical brilliance to soothe and relax your mind & soul. In fact, it dint even occurred to me that there can be something more to this magical piece which, just like the above fact (whether the hymn was actually played last on Titanic) remained buried deep inside my heap of ignorance. It was just few days’ back the realization unearthed upon me that this is actually a hymn whose verses turned out to be even more soulful than the music itself.

Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Book Review: SWAMI AND FRIENDS by R K Narayan


Book Details. . .

Title: Swami and Friends
Author: R K Narayan
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Productivity And Quality Publishing (Originally published in 1935 by Hamish Hamilton)
Pages: 184 Pages
Price: INR 63
Rating: 5/5

Book Synopsis. . .


The relevance of Swami and Friends in the history of Indian literature stands in synonymous with the position of R K Narayan. The novel which got published sometime in 1935, actually sprouted from author’s imagination in the autumn of 1930 when during celebration of vijayadashmi, he visualized the first glimpse of his fictional world, Malgudi. The first novel of the literary genius provides the backdrop for all his later works by introducing the world of Malgudi to the readers. Later did he knew and realized, that this fictional creation of his would change the course of Indian literature paving its way amongst the who’s who of world literary geniuses. It all started with a glimpse of a Railway Station in his mental imagery, followed by secondary Albert Mission school, Market Road, the River Sarayu, its typical inhabitants & lo and behold, Malgudi was born!!

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