सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है

I wanted to do it from long time. This is from Anurag Kasyap's Movie 'Gulaal' composed and sung by Piyush Mishra. He had composed a new version of this popular song, in his own words that fits very well today. I searched the lyrics of this song on net but couldn't find anywhere. Finally while traveling to Lucknow last week I put it into words.

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है,
देखना है जोर कितना बाजु-ऐ-कातिल में है ।
वक़्त आने दे बता देंगे तुझे ऐ आसमा,
हम अभी से क्या बताएं, क्या हमारे दिल में है ।
देखना है जोर कितना बाजु-ऐ-कातिल में है ।
वक़्त आने दे बता देंगे तुझे ऐ आसमा,
हम अभी से क्या बताएं, क्या हमारे दिल में है ।
सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है ।

ओरे बिस्मिल काश आते आज तुम हिन्दोस्तान,
देखते की मुल्क सारा ए टशन में चिल में है ।
आज का लौंडा ये कहता हम तो बिस्मिल थक गये,
अपनी आज़ादी तो भैया लौंडिया के दिल में है ।
आज के जलसों में बिस्मिल एक गूंगा गा रहा,
और बहरो का वो रेला नाचता महफ़िल में है ।
हाथ की खादी बनाने का ज़माना लद गया,
आज तो चड्डी भी सिलती एंग्लिशो की मिल में है ।
देखना है जोर कितना बाजु-ऐ-कातिल में है ।
वक़्त आने दे बता देंगे तुझे ऐ आसमा,
हम अभी से क्या बताएं, क्या हमारे दिल में है ।
सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है

--Hari.

Indian Railways : Go green !!!

Last week while travelling to Lucknow, this thought again crossed my mind, so putting it here. I read somewhere that daily almost 2 lakh railway tickets are booked online through IRCTC, and mostly these are e-tickets. While booking online IRCTC sends a SMS too. But railways mandates to carry a print out of the e-ticket otherwise they will charge Rs 50 as fine. Also carrying a ID card is mandatory, then I wonder whats the use of carrying the printout of the e-ticket, anyway ticket examiner has the list, he has to ask for ID proof and in most of the cases passengers may have SMS too.

Call it Indian mindset or whatever, generally people carry two copies of printout, one handy and the other one in luggage in case they misplace the first one, because then Ticket examiner will fine them. Then one can think that daily in India almost 3-4 lakhs papers are wasted just to carry the e-ticket printouts.

Today when all the government departments are advocating for going green, I believe its high time Railways should also think about this e-ticket printout stuff. If not stopping, at least it should not be mandatory.

---Hari.

Going to Lucknow

I am writing this one while lying in the upper birth in the train, will post it as soon as I get connectivity. I am traveling to Lucknow for around 10 days, Last time I went for Diwali.


I am taking my bike also with me, which is loaded in the third coach behind my coach. Transferring two-wheelers through Indian Railways is cheapest and safest mode. But as usual you have to pay some to packing fellow, person who will load and unload, may be RPF, but even after all this it will be lesser than courier costs.

When i booked my ticket, it was in RAC but it got confirmed and upper birth was allotted. Everybody around me is going to Lucknow.
There are some (proud) parents whose children are working in Bangalore, they are returning after visiting them, talking about Bangalore's life, how inflation is increasing, then there is one uncle who is very happy and its no less than a achievement for him that his ticket got confirmed, he cant stop talking about it like how Railway ticketing system works, lot of things were new to me ;). Then there is one aunt whose (i think) daughter got through some company in Bangalore and she is describing all the details of the corporate and how things work, Its always good to hear a different, funny and layman view on these things. The train got late by almost 4 hours in Bangalore itself, but now its running late by an hour, so it has made up a lot.


I am hoping a good weather in Lucknow, a friend's wedding is there on 7th Feb. This time while I will be returning via Delhi. Planning to catch with some friends, that will be a lot of fun.

---Hari.