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Can, you can, oh my Baby! (A Poem/Song)

Being born in some of the poorest of neighbourhoods, I had seen many of the struggles that people had endured to live life one moment of time. But what has struck me the most is the struggle of couples, when one of them (usually the man) has to travel outside one's town in search of work, leaving the family there at home. This poem is about how even in the midst of these straining times, the couple maintains that trust in their relationship through letters (in the olden times) or phones (in the modern times) or just through hope (when none of the things are available). This poem is that steering song that both, men and women, sings to each other, affirming their strong conviction and belief in their love for each other, which is firmly rooted despite the increasing physical distance between them.   Old those lanes, still waiting there, For that wedding that we once  planned. That old man is also still there, who blessed us and told that we can! So can, you can, oh my baby!  Even wh

Kya se Kya Ho gaya – The Magnum Opus

Caged under the lockdown like almost everybody else in the world, when I was wasting my time watching the TV, the famous song “Kya se Kya ho gaya” of the 1965 movie Guide, starring the dashing Dev Anand and the beautiful Wahida Rehman, appeared on the screen, where he was contemplating the fact that “What he was” and “What he has become”. But isn’t this the same question that we, the Human Species, had asked ourselves from time immemorial of “What we were” and “What we had become now”?   Since our very start, we had been asking this question to ourselves! In order to answer it, let me now become your “Guide”. So fasten your seatbelts, ‘coz it is going to be a rollercoaster ride! It all began 13.7 billion years ago when the Universe, time & space got their present existence with a BIG BANG. But there was no hurry because it took around 9 billion years till we got to our Earth, which was, at the time, just a hot burning ball of lava! Just a few million years later, Earth met wi