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IF (by Rudyard Kipling)

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Varun

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and … Continue reading →

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Inspiration gone dry – Amazing poem

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Varun

Inspiration gone dry by Prude My favourite snippet: … To see a spot of green, in the sky of blue. For a word of encouragement, to make this seem true. To walk through a meadow of marigolds, And let go … Continue reading →

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Miloon mujhko chalna hai

Posted on May 19, 2007 by Varun

I finally managed to find out the correct Hindi version of the last stanza of ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’. And it was none other than my friend Anjali who narrated this to me in the first place many years ago. Thanks Anjali! I also got called dumbo in the bargain but what is little dumbo here and there between friends? ;-)

So here it is…

Gahan saghan manmohak taru, mujhko aaj bulate hain…
Kintu kiye jo vaade maine, yaad mujhe aa jaate hain…
Mujhe kahan aaram bada, yah muk nimantran chalna hai..
Arey abhi to milon mujhko, miloon mujhko chalna hai.

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