Life's Onward Journey...

Jo khatm ho kisi jagah, ye aisa silsila nahi... I remember that as a kid I used to like Dev Anand a lot. Thanks to the good old days of doordarshan there were  re-runs of movies like Tere ghar ke saamne, Kaala Paani, CID, Solva Saal.   And then there was the sunday morning Rangoli to catch Dev Sahab romancing Waheeda Rehman in ' Khoya khoya chaand....ho..ho ' and crooning ' Tu kahan ye bata is nasheeli raat mein ' on the streets. The least I could have done for this old love of mine was to watch 'Hum Dono-Rangeen' in theatre. And I loved it, specially the music. The movie begins with an almost 4 minute long dialogue-less roothna-manaana scene which culminates in Mohd. Rafi pleading ' Abhi na jaao chhod kar, ki dil abhi bhara nah i'. Lovely. A few more minutes into the movie, the hero shares his lately acquired philosophy of life with us, ' Main zindagi ka saath nibhata chala gaya '. Jo kho gaya main usko bhulata chala gaya... And very s

The silsila that I kept going for almost 3 and a half years finally broke 4 months back. I am talking about being faithful to my blog and  coming back to it at least once every month, no matter what. Although many hearts (or was it just mine?) and dreams also broke but I will prefer talking about 'sagittalsection'  and me. Dear Blog, I would be lying if I say that I didn't cheat upon you. I did and I apologize for it. I had a situation-driven-fling with somebody. You know him well. It's that diary I keep hidden in that drawer. I had lied to you when I told you that I had gotten over it and that I had thrown it away. Instead I kept it close to me all this while. And I felt the need to go back to it because there were certain things that I couldn't share with you...and moreover there were some worries that I needed to sort out without troubling you. D gave me the refuge I was craving for. There were times when I shared with it and inflicted pain upon it by tearing