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Why should the river always flow towards the Ocean? Is it just out of love, obsession or devotion?

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It has often been suggested by my dear friend HariOm about the devotional obsessive behaviour of River which drives her to go and dissolve in the Ocean. Here is his couplet: "ऐसा भी क्या दीवानापन ऐसा भी क्या प्यार नदी,  सागर से मिलने जाती है तू ही क्यों हर बार नदी ?" This often made me wonder the emotions behind depicting this as thoughtless one side obsession of river, which consists of pristine, pure, soft water - to drift and submerge in the vast ocean, which is wild, salty, destructive, immense, unimaginably different and rough. Well, I figured it out, that it's just a figment of human imagination, and we obviously ignore the real basis of this process. It's not love, it higher than that. It's creation. It's about making sure everything functions.  And even though it looks like a mere one-sided journey, ocean play's its fair role in creating, strengthening and charting the very path of the river.  The...

Koun tum Mere Hriday Mein??- Mahadevi Verma

The age-long longing for this poetry has finally ended. I heard this first time somewhere in some Kavi-Goshthi. I was in Class 10 th or 11 th then, I don’t exactly remember. The words were well beyond my understanding; the meaning was well beyond my scope. I was yet to experience the feel that is required to understand these wordings. I was yet to be exposed to the beauty of Hindi Literature. Although I have read all of Premchand Sahitya, Sharat Chandra, Ishwar Chandar, Devkinandan Khatri’s creations, but they all appear to me as they were meant to be told as tales, say, stories. Only poetry can speak the language of the heart. It does not narrate, it talks to the reader; it sings. Here every character can be replaced; every incident can be suitable matched to something personally relevant. Every feeling here is wired to the readers personal emotions. There continued paragraph here is say, 40 years old ; and is Written by Mahadevi Verma ages back. He writes his heart out questi...

Voilà!!....its so virtuous statement!!....:))

At last..... Presenting.... Tantanaaaaaaaaa The most impressive introduction ever......from one of the most powerfull and inspiring one....."V" for Vendetta...... Opinions are welcome....sarcasm will not be entertained.... sorry this dialogue is just so vivid to me that my mind gets volatile....:))Bravo Bravismo..... "Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me...

Saare Jahaan se Accha....the तराना -ए-हिन्द

Saare Jahan Se Achchha (Urdu: سارے جہاں سے اچھا ) is one of the enduring patriotic poems of the Urdu language. Written originally for children in the ghazal style of Urdu poetry by poet Muhammad Iqbal, the poem was published in the weekly journal Ittehad on 16 August 1904. Recited by Iqbal the following year at Government College , Lahore , now in Pakistan , it quickly became an anthem of opposition to the British rule in India . The song, an ode to Hindustan-the land comprising present-day Bangladesh , India , and Pakistan -both celebrated and cherished the land even as it lamented its age-old anguish. Also known as Tarana-e-Hindi (Urdu: ترانۂ ہندی "Anthem of the People of Hindustan"), it was later published in 1924 in the Urdu book Bang-i-Dara. About the Poet, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Urdu: محمد اقبال ) born (November 9, 1877 – April 21, 1938) was a Muslim poet, philosopher and politician born in Sialkot, British India (now in Pakistan), whose poetry in Urdu and ...