TUM MUJHE YUN ~~~~

TUM MUJHE YUN ~~~~


Original singer: Mohd.Rafi
Here is my version/rendition.
Vs gopal
19 Aug 2012
This lovely, powerful and fast-paced song was from the movie PAGLA KAHIN KA (1970) and the on-screen singer is Shammi Kapoor who has an audience in Asha Parekh.
Music was by Shankar-Jaikisan and lyrics were by Hasrat Jaipuri.

LYRICS:
Tum mujhe yun bhula na paoge
Haan tum mujhe yun bhula na paoge
Jab kabhi bhi sunoge geet mere
Sang sang tum bhi gungunaoge
Haan tum mujhe yun bhula na paoge
Ho tum mujhe yun
(1) Woh baharein woh chandani raatein
Humne ki thi jo pyar ki baatein
Woh baharein woh chandani raatein
Humne ki thi jo pyar ki baatein
Un nazaron ki yaad aayegi
Jab khayalo mein mujhko laaoge
Haan tum mujhe yun bhula na paoge
Ho tum mujhe yun
(2) Mere hathon mein tera chehra tha
Jaise koi gulab hota hai
Mere hathon mein tera chera tha
Jaise koi gulab hota hai
Aur sahara liya tha baahon ka
Woh sama kis tarah bhulaoge
Haan tum mujhe yun bhula na paoge
Ho tum mujhe yun
(3) Mujhko dekhe bina karaar na tha
Ek aisa bhi daur gujara hain
Mujhko dekhe bina karaar na tha
Ek aisa bhi daur gujara hain
Jhoot maano to pooch lo dil se
Main kahonga to rooth jaaoge
Haan tum mujhe yun bhula na paoge
Jab kabhi bhi sunoge geet mere
Sang sang tum bhi gungunaoge
Haan tum mujhe yun bhula na paoge
Ho tum mujhe yun

HUM AUR TUM AUR YEH SAMAA

HUM AUR TUM AUR YEH SAMAA

Original singer: Mohammad Rafi...Here is my version/rendition.
vs gopal
27 Aug 2012
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This is a simple song and yet is so stylish, melodious and enchanting. I have always loved this. On-screen, Shammi Kapoor sings this to Asha Parekh. Movie was DIL DEKE DEKHO (1959). Usha Khanna composed the lilting music and the lyrics were by Majrooh Sultanpuri.

LYRICS
hum aur tum aur yeh samaa
kya nasha nasha sa hai
boliye na boliye
sab suna suna sa hai
hum aur tum aur yeh samaa kya nasha nasha sa hai
(1) beqaraar se ho kyon
hum ko paas aane bhi do
gir padaa jo haath se
woh rumaal uthaane bhi do
bante kyon ho jaane bhi do (2)
hum aur tum aur yeh samaa kya nasha nasha sa hai
boliye na boliye sab suna suna sa hai
(2) aaj baat baat pe
aap kyon sambhalne lage
thartharaaye honth kyon
ashq kyon machalne lage
lipte gesu khulne lage (2)

CE SOIR MON PETIT GARCON

CE SOIR MON PETIT GARCON (FRENCH)

V.S.Gopalakrishnan

link for my singing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Idwzk-sITo

ORIGINAL SINGER: Serge Reggiani
mY VERSION/RENDITION.
vs gopal
21 Aug 2012

This lovely composition has stayed one of my favourites over 40 years. I got the karaoke track at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoYPziQgDuE

One can hear the original by Serge Reggiani himself at the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snuhIVoS0nI

LYRICS:
Ce soir mon petit garçon
Mon enfant, mon amour
Ce soir, il pleut sur la maison
Mon garçon, mon amour
Comme tu lui ressembles!
On reste tous les deux
On va bien jouer ensemble
On est là tous les deux
Seuls

Ce soir elle ne rentre pas
Je n’sais plus, je n’sais pas
Elle écrira demain peut-être
Nous aurons une lettre
Il pleut sur le jardin
Je vais faire du feu
Je n’ai pas de chagrin
On est là tous les deux
Seuls

Attend, je sais des histoires
Il était une fois
Il pleut dans ma mémoire
Je crois, ne pleure pas
Attends, je sais des histoires
Mais il fait un peu froid ce soir
Une histoire de gens qui s’aiment
Une histoire de gens qui s’aiment

Tu vas voir
Ne t’en vas pas
Ne me laisse pas

Je ne sais plus faire du feu
Mon enfant, mon amour
Je ne peux plus grand-chose
Mon garçon, mon amour
Comme tu lui ressembles!
On est là tous les deux
Perdus parmi les choses
Dans cette grande chambre
Seuls
On va jouer à la guerre
Et tu t’endormiras
Ce soir, elle ne sera pas là
Je n’sais plus, je n’sais pas
Je n’aime pas l’hiver
Il n’y a plus de feu
Il n’y a plus rien à faire
Qu’à jouer tous les deux
Seuls

Attends, je sais des histoires
Il était une fois
Je n’ai plus de mémoire
Je crois, ne pleure pas
Attends, je sais des histoires
Mais il est un peu tard, ce soir
L’histoire des gens qui s’aimèrent
Et qui jouèrent à la guerre

Ecoute-moi
Elle n’est plus là
Non…. ne pleure pas…. !

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PRANAB MUKHERJEE: THE GREATEST CHEAT IN INDIA

PRANAB MUKHERJEE: THE GREATEST CHEAT IN INDIA

I am not saying the above. Mr.Vishwa Bandhu Gupta, an honest retired Commissioner of Income Tax is saying it! Just listen to him in the video above, somewhat longish but worth every second you spend! Hear it three or four times, so that you get the full hang of it. Pranab has meanwhile become our President and is therefore above law till he retires! Yet, the charges will have to hang around his neck!

Mr.Gupta is furious about the treaty which Pranab signed with the Swiss Government last June (2011) according to which treaty the Swiss Government has been exempted from giving any information to Indian Government about the past Swiss account holders! My blood boils too! How did Pranab do it? Why did he not consult the Parliament before this Treaty? Why are BJP and opposition parties sleeping over it? Mr.Gupta is rightly furious about these.

The Swiss Private Banks Association itself had declared that 1.4 trillion dollars were lying with private Swiss Banks and that India had topped the list. All that money, credited by Indians before July 2011 will now become exempt from our knowledge as per the Treaty! Pranab has done this coup to protect the Dynasty and half the Cabinet Ministers at the Centre! Hats off to Vishwa Bandhu Guptaji! He also explains how Kalmadi got caught, and that is an interesting story!

He explains that the Swiss Banks in India (UBS, Credit-Suisse) are not following RBI guidelines. LK Advavi and Nitin Gadkari have gone to sleep!

I bow before Mr.Gupta's sense of patriotism. It is a shame that Pranab is our President.

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SECRET MEETING BETWEEN ANNAJI AND BABA RAMDEV

SECRET MEETING BETWEEN ANNAJI AND BABA RAMDEV

V.S.Gopalakrishnan
(HUMOUR: FICTION)

It was the end of August 2012. Anna and Ramdev had a secret meeting in Aligarh in a house belonging to an RSS worker. A couple of Muslim office bearers of Parties labeled as Hindutva parties were also present. Anna’s forehead had more worry lines than ever before signifying his fast ageing and the fast deterioration in his mental resolve too. Ramdev had more grey hair in his beard than ever before signifying that time was running fast if not out, for him.

These two stalwarts looked at the ceiling of the room almost in the manner of a synchronized head-up, and they noticed the unwritten word “corruption” on it. And then their eyes met.

Anna said to Ramdev, “Poojya Ramdevji! Corruption is like the invisible devil. We have been fighting the invisible. It’s time we singled out the Dynasty and try to get rid of that. More than half the problem will get solved in India in that case”.

Ramdevji replied, “Why not target the whole Congress instead of just the Dynasty? And there are Dynasties in many States such as in Kashmir, in UP, in the DMK party etc and what do we do about these Dynasties?”

Anna said to Ramdev, “Mahaashay! The Central Government’s budget is at least one hundred times as big as the budgets of a few States put together where there are Dynasties. The central Dynasty can therefore loot one hundred-thousand crores where the State-Dynasties could be able to loot say one thousand crores! Let us concentrate our target on the Central Dynasty only!”

And Ramdevji was seen nodding assent to this reasoning.

Mr.Saqvi Siddiqui, a Muslim office-bearer of a Hindutva party came in the picture now.



Saqvi advised Anna and Ramdev thus: “Look, you Hindus are poor fighters. You Hindus are genetically deficient in violence. The only way to fight is to become violent. Look at the way the Muslim crowd in Azad Maidan of Mumbai,  while protesting against Assam and Myanmar, nicely beat up four dozen policemen and burnt buses and properties! Hindus should convert to Islam to resort to violence. Look at Chander Mohan, ex-Deputy CM of Haryana. He became a Muslim in order to marry his sweet-heart Anuradha Bali who became Fiza Mohammad, and once his purpose was achieved he reconverted to Hinduism. Why not all Hindus in India temporarily convert to Islam for a few months? Then they will have the guts to take on the Dynasty.”

Ramdev Baba saw some merit in this argument. He had changed his dress once to suit an important purpose. Why not temporarily change religion if that can give you guts to take on difficult people?

But Anna would not accept this idea. It would be impossible to mass-convert Hindus to Islam, even temporarily.

Ramdev was not the one to be deterred. He explained to Anna that he had toured lakhs of villages, and his shakhas cover every nook and corner of India. He therefore exuded confidence and stated that under his inspiring leadership, it would be possible to effect mass conversion of Hindus into Islam.

Annaji would not however give up.

“Look, Ramdev babaji!” he said! And he added, “I have an alternate idea. Let us collect one hundred rupees from each Indian. Therefore we will have 100 billion rupees from the Indians. Let us open an account in the name of Rahulji in a bank and credit the amount and request the Dynasty to leave India to Indians. “

Ramdevji was happy at this idea. He gave out such a big laughter that I got up from my sleep and dream world.

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RACE KILLING IN WISCONSIN: TIME TO ABANDON TURBAN AND BEARD?

RACE KILLING IN WISCONSIN: TIME TO ABANDON TURBAN AND BEARD?

V.S.Gopalakrishnan

When you are in Rome do as Romans do. I have seen in Chennai many foreigners (men) wearing dhotis and kurtas. The three-fingered “Vibhuti” band or the “Namam” on the foreheads of South Indian Brahmins have practically disappeared in Tamil Nadu. Religious distinguishing marks have been vanishing in general. Five or six decades ago I have seen Triplicane muslims wearing “fez” but that is gone. Kemal Ataturk got rid of fez and beard in Turkey.

Dress codes have changed sharply in a modernizing India. Even in small towns, girls are wearing jeans. Into the South, the salwar and kameez style has made an invasion from the North. The South Indian dosa and iddlis have not only got out into the rest of India but have gone global. Culture, as represented in attire and eating habits, has greatly changed in India.

As far as Sikhs are concerned, the tenth guru, Guru Gobind Singh, in 1699, made five Ks obligatory for Sikhs, and they are (1) Kesh – long hair and beard, and a turban on the head  (2) Kanga – comb (3) Kara – iron bracelet (4) Kachera –underwear and (5) Kirpan – curved sword. This was more than three hundred  years ago.

What we see is that many younger Sikh men shave and don’t wear turban. Some of the well-known clean shaven Sikhs are Gulzar, late Jagjit Singh (ghazal singer), actor Dharmender, Ajay Devgun, Dara Singh, the famous Dalip Singh Saund (in USA) and so many others.

Nowadays matrimonial advertisements relating to Sikhs contain very often specific requirements for shaven Sikhs! So, we have been seeing departures from strict so-called religious codes and orthodoxy. Religions born in India are that way flexible and don’t excommunicate those who make departures. Even in the highly orthodox Islam, strictest adherence in terms of beards and burkhas are not being observed.

So, what is the problem if the Sikhs abroad shave and drop their turban? The younger Sikhs in any case don’t have turban and beard. The President of the Wisconsin Gurdwara who was killed had a beard but his son who has been giving interviews is a clean shaven young man.

The Sikh turban and the beard have always posed problems with authorities all over the world. And this was much before 9/11. The problems have risen in the recruitments to Defences Services, Police Services etc in the countries of their settlement such as Canada, USA etc. Some years ago, in 2000, I was in Canada and I was shocked to see newspaper reports saying that Sikhs wanted their children to be allowed into school carrying kirpan! I thought that that was ridiculous. And post 9/11, can the Sikhs go into aircraft carrying kirpans?

I have been watching some TV debates post the Wisconsin Gurdwara shooting that took place on Sunday, 5^th August. The killer Wade known to be a racist and upset about job loss due to outsiders, had done the butchering. I was quite amused to note many participants in the debate blaming the American Government in not educating all the Americans that the Sikhs are not Talibans although they have beards and turbans! Let me tell you, I myself saw the first Sikh in my life only when I was 15 years old. The turbaned and bearded image of Osama Bin Laden is so inevitably etched in every American mind. No wonder, the uninformed white Americans might suspect that the turban and beard Sikh-wallahs are radical Muslims likely to create trouble. The younger Americans don’t even know enough about Christianity and no one can educate them about the Sikh religion and the 5 Ks!

Come on, Sikhs! This is a good opportunity to review the relevance of the 5 Ks to modern living! There is no point in making a fetish of your religion in external aspects and symbols when you go and settle abroad. You won’t even get a Gurdwara in the Middle East and in Saudi Arabia.

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BOXING SHOULD BE BANNED

BOXING SHOULD BE BANNED

Yes! I am saying that boxing should be banned. The other day, I saw the Olympics boxing event figuring India’s Devendra Singh defeating his Mongolian rival Serdamba Purevdorj. I was very glad that the puny and fragile Indian - it was a light fly weight category of 49 kg - won the fight convincingly. But after watching the event I told myself equally convincingly that boxing should be banned.

Boxing is indeed a fascinating sport. Even women like to watch it. The terrible thing about the latest big boxing news is that for the first time women-boxing has been introduced into Olympics this year, in London 2012! God, this horribly nasty sport which makes animal of men, has been extended to women! Is this the way to achieve gender non-discrimination? The fine, fair sex which we want to keep tantalizingly delicate and vulnerable has been allowed into a rakshas sport of men! The headline-news today is that India’s lady boxer Mary Kom (51kg) began her campaign by beating Poland’s Karolina Michalczuk with a score of 19-14. What a way to go for the fairer sex!

In my young days and more particularly in the 1950s, it was Rocky Marciano, the great American heavy-weight boxer, who greatly captured my imagination. He was the world champion for four years from 1952 to 1956, and unfortunately he died in a small-plane crash later in 1969 at the age of 46 only. The Hindu was the newspaper of Chennai that gave us wonderful world-wide news and I kept pace with Rocky Marciano’s progress. And when I joined the Intermediate Class in 1955, I even enrolled myself for boxing sport although I was thin but I had the height and thank God I did not stick with it.

In the 1960s, it was Cassius Clay, who later changed his name to Mohammad Ali, who captured my fancy. There was no TV then and no way of watching any of his matches, but his fascinating boxing career followed from newspaper reports held me spell-bound. He was known for his big height and figure, handsomeness and a big 80 inch reach. He refused to be conscripted for the Viet Nam War for which the American Government carried out a reprisal by having his boxing titles taken away! After contesting his case for several years, he won his fight against his conscription in the Supreme Court.

The 1980s saw Mike Tyson becoming the heavy-weight champion but to me he never looked as winsome and classy as Mohammad Ali. He seemed crude and indeed, many may recollect, he bit off the ear of Evander Holyfield in a bout in 1999! Tyson was notorious for drug habits and was convicted and sentenced for rape, for six years. One of his nicknames was “The Baddest man on the Planet”! I really never cared much for Tyson, known for scintillating knock-out victories, and I began to lose interest in boxing.

And lo and behold, after several years, I watched a bout exhibiting our Devendra Singh in the Olympics the other day. I thought that the sport lends no dignity to man. It involves punching of the other man most particularly on the face. This is a ferocious and animalistic act and it brings out the worst instincts in man. Unless you want to kill an enemy you will not punch his face with ferocity. You can see all the venom and competitive hatred and animosity on the boxer’s face. Of course protective guards are being used by boxers nowadays but there are several instances of boxers getting killed or breaking their noses, and I feel that no sport should directly lead to that. People have died in action playing cricket and football but those are accidents. Even in wrestling, while force is there, the killer instinct of punching the face does not exist. Many countries have abolished even cock-fights, and it is time we abolish the unsightly and cruel sport of boxing.

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