Tag Archives: Life

Living a life entails a great deal of sufferings. The attempt should however be to retain sanity and a firm eye on the real truth at the end. Rajiv Krishna Saxena रोज़ ज़हर पीना है रोज़ ज़हर पीना है, सर्प–दंश सहना है, मुझको तो जीवन भर चंदन ही रहना है। …

Here is another poem of Hullad Muradabadi, on finding a home to live in the era of sky rocketing prices. Rajiv Krishna Saxena रहने को घर नहीं है कमरा तो एक ही है कैसे चले गुजारा बीबी गई थी मैके लौटी नहीं दुबारा कहते हैं लोग मुझको शादी-शुदा कुँआरा रहने …

Life passes with a break-neck speed. As it passes, we are bewildered as to whether we did a good job or we failed in living a good life. What are the measures of success after all? In this confusion, the time to exit comes. Rajiv Krishna Saxena जीवन का दाँव …

After all the initial trials and tribulations of love and adjustments, a real grace emerges in mature couples who could endure. They have gone through good and bad times together and have attained a kind of resilience that sees them through and provides strength to keep marching hand-in-hand – Rajiv …

Life is a temporary phase. We come into this world and leave one day. In between, many get too pre-occupied with hording wealth and name. Indian thought has always considered this tendency madness. Detachment with material things and love for humanity has always been the saintly advice in India. Here …

A life of desperation and one hardly sees a point of keep living. But enter love and the things don’t look so bad anymore… Rajiv Krishna Saxena भर दिया जाम भर दिया जाम जब तुमने अपने हाथों से प्रिय! बोलो, मैं इन्कार करूं भी तो कैसे! वैसे तो मैं कब …

Monotony of life hits every one eventually. Here is a lovely poem depicting just that. Office goers would especially identify with the sentiments – Rajiv Krishna Saxena बीते दिन वर्ष बीते दिन वर्ष! रोज जन्म लेती‚ शंकाओं के रास्ते घर से दफ्तर की दूरी को नापते बीते दिन दिन करके‚ …

 Here is a tribute to  Rajesh Khanna  and Anand Bakshi .   Rajiv Krishna Saxena अच्छा तो हम चलते हैं अच्छा तो हम चलते हैं फिर कब मिलोगे? जब तुम कहोगे जुम्मे रात को हाँ हाँ आधी रात को कहाँ? वहीं जहाँ कोई आता-जाता नहीं अच्छा तो हम चलते हैं… किसी …

Santosh ‘Arsh’ sent me his poetry book entitled “Kya Pata”. I greatly enjoyed reading his work which reminded me of Dushyant Kumar. Here is a lovely poem showing the general feeling of dis-connect in postmodern world. Rajiv Krishna Saxena अच्छा नहीं लगता ये उड़ती रेत का सूखा समाँ अच्छा नहीं …

The other day when Anna Hazare announced a new turn in their struggle against corruption, a TV channel was playing the following song from film ‘Gulaal’ in the background. The song by Piyush Mishra really impressed me due to sheer sense of rhythm, beat and rousing quality. The poem reminded …