Thursday, June 24, 2010

A man is known by the book he reads...

“A man is known by the book he keeps”, I always find this proverb very interesting specially when you are surrounded by so many books. The only things which keep you moves forward in your life without any outlay are books and bicycle. These two always takes your life in forward direction, the books gives you a knowledge to understand past, present and future of life and make you identify with the complexity of life, while bicycle moves you forward without any consumption of any waste, except your energy which you ultimately regain it. Every book has its own style; the creativity done by the writer on his books is actually the effort of book. A book chooses its own writer, not a writer chooses its book. A book completed in the minds of writer much before he jotted down on papers. So as I was saying a book chooses its own writer, a writer only gives his expression or an idea to complete it. This theory definitely belongs to me; though it may looks weird to people but I am firm believer in myself created theory. I have been to many libraries, from ancient to highly modern, but I found one thing is very common and that thing is spirit of books. Every book in those libraries is trying to say its own history, creativity and effort that it had to been to reach there. It looks to me a living entity, whether it’s a fictitious book or non fictitious, when u open it a bundles of emotions, pain, happiness, sorrow, attitude (yup, a book too have an attitude), and the most important its story of making comes into your minds and forms a virtual picture of everything. You could realize how the writer had undergone through many phases to the creation of this wonderful creativity of words. It is an expression or medium or a means of communication to generation to generation or more than that. You can still read the mind of Hitler, if you read his autobiography; you can in actually imagine the situation and substance of that period. The best way to go into the past is to read the books of the past; no time machine can do this. Time machine may takes you back to the past, but then also it cannot takes you into the minds of the past. But book can take you in the past as well as in the minds of the past. That is the potency of the books, and that is why there exists a famous phrase “a man is known by the book he keeps”. But don't pursue only the words of this phrase, I mean don’t only keep the books, just go through it and make another phrase “a man is known by the book he reads”.
This thought mostly comes in my mind, when I read the books of “Shakespeare” and “Sir Conon Doyle”, their works are still into the minds of people. It still has a same charisma to attract all the readers of this newly wed world. Recently I completed a novel of “Sydney Sheldon”, ‘the Doomsday Conspiracy’, it was first published in the year 1991, today even after nineteen years still this book is ahead of us. He is such a terrific writer. I really feel the life of those to be useless who doesn’t read books and those wonderful words which was decorated by the wonderful writers. It is just a paper of words, but this very paper is holding the world’s knowledge and without it all things are useless. Just think, if we hadn't these assets then how could we come to know our past and if we didn’t know our past, how could we able to realize our present, and if we were not acquainted with our present then how could we strategise our future. So read the books, not only to know the magic of words but to know our past, present and future, without it I believe none of us would have been existed. And yeah always ride bicycle as it cleans environment and cleans you as well and moreover you will move forward without any backwardness (oil free world, pollution free world).

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Backa' withe celebritae...

Well it’s a long tiresome, hackneyed and exhaustive journey I have made, again and again I am into travelling and travelling, but it’s ok I like the way my life is travelling into a terrific journey with add on extra experiences which ultimately making me a full of wisdom, wisdom of Solomon…, no… its a wisdom of Farhan.
The scariest thing in the world is over, yup exams!!! The blood thirsty!!! The only souvenir thinking in that moment is to think of its ending, in exams even the work of labour looks easy and calm. But no more worries as now I am free from all shackles of exams and classes for a limited period of two months. Thank God.
Right now, I am at home feeling more relax than anywhere, temperature is also lowered since I came here, not like Delhi…ugh… Delhi is boiling, melting and evaporating peoples. I like Delhi but not in summers, it is ugly in summers but then also it is one of the best city in India, perhaps better than any city in terms of facilities. Don’t worry; I am not going to do any kind of favoritism. Leave it.
Let’s talk about something …hmm… politics …no…; happenings…no…; films…no…; travelling…no…it’s boring now, then what would I write here, is there any thing special…? Ok then I will tell about my sudden meeting with ‘Guddi’…oppss…Jaya Bacchan. It was a co-incidence; definitely it had to be, as for we peoples. This unexpected encounter happened in Kayani bakery, one of the India’s famous bakery. I was standing in a queue waiting to get my order for Mava Cake…ummm…I m lov’ng it…then only I saw one lady coming towards me, having an familiar acquaintance, looking quite like a wife of Amitabh Bacchan, but soon this quite turned into sure thing, first I thought she must be resembling like her, but then I was wrong she was Jaya Bacchan. It was very pleasant to see her just next to me. As from her looks she doesn’t look like a celebrity’s wife or celebrity herself, her simplicity carrying pardonable features. She tried to raise her hand for an order, leaving behind my hand, I looked her in an uneasiness, suddenly she said, “sorry my dear, I am really very sorry”, hehe…Jaya Bacchan is saying sorry to me, I felt good, in actually I was ready to give my place to her if she wanted but as soon bakerywallas seen her, they all moved over her praising, wishing and giving her a special status which she deserves for being a celebrity. Everybody in the bakery was pointing each other that Jaya is also a part of their queue, one lady I remember she came after a few minutes of Jaya, as when she saw her she just let out her phone and called her husband that she is with Jaya Bacchan, hehe…her husband must be thinking of private interaction but it’s all about public demand. Nothing matters to her. How the life of celebrity affects with this public image, no freedom, they have to pay the price of freedom for their status of celebrity? Or we can say how the life of common man affects when we see such a big stars wandering in the same place where we wander everyday, but we don’t realize that they too are the part of this society, they are not alien. They too having a same kind of features, same nose may be in different style, same ear, same mouth, and the same way of spreading emotions. So what is special?

One more incident I remember, I use to eat everyday a plate of fruits in the night after dinner, so it became my routine, everyday I go, sit, talk and gossip with a little friends of mine whom I met their only. One of my friend thier is in the field of media, he always showed us a picture of big celebrities, may be paparazzi style, so he told us that Shahid Kapoor is a very good friend of him, we all started laughing for his fekology, but to prove himself he started taking ‘kasam’ and all. Then I told my friends its ok, may be he is having good relations with Shahid. Then he was telling that at the time of engagement her wife was also not ready to accept that Shahid is his good friend, so he called him up and asked him to talk her. Then only she accepted. He also invited Shahid’s mom in his marriage. We all are nodding our head to each other and thinking for his pride that he is wanting in return for his friendship with Shahid. Too much craze, really celebrities are having a very good time in India. May be for Shahid Kapoor and Jaya Bacchan, the value of these persons doesn’t matter, but it matters a lot for them who are cherishing their whole life just to tell others that I met Jaya or I am a good friend of Shahid.

Alright guys, I just came here to tell you that I am back with lots of things to tell you, as I have already told you that exams got over, so I am free to do anything with a free mood and free ideas. Definitely I am not going charge not even a penny for everything what I have written here, it’s really free of cost until you owe me something by giving your unpardonable ideas and comments. Yup I forgot one thing; in my last post I had a Chinese invasion in the form of comments, I don’t know what they have written, or intended to write, whether it was a praise or braise, but I am happy that at least they are posting their comments, though I don’t understand even a single letter of them. But I have request to all of them to write in English …even if it is some what abusive. Doesn’t matter, u people are free to say any thing after all we are living in free society, freedom of speech is guaranteed by our most lengthy constitution, too lengthy to implement…oops…
Ok then bye, read, eat, write, sleep, speak, weep…but do it properly…hehehe…take care ofurself and pleaseeeeeee…don’t spit on roads…pleaseeeee…