प्रस्थान आज ही होगा

एक कदम तो बढ़ा कर देखो आगे
प्रस्थान आज ही होगा
वैमनस्य की जंज़ीरो को हिला कर तो देखो
संहार आज ही होगा ..... १

कांटो से भरी है राह तो क्या हुआ
उस पे आगे बढ़ना होगा
पाँव डगमगायेंगे , चीत्कार होगा,
डर के बैठने की बारी नहीं है अब
प्रहार आज ही होगा ..... २

एक सपना टूट गया है , बिखर गए मोती
पिरोना है आज उन्हें फिर से
मालाहार आज ही होगा
लाना है एक ऐसा युग
जहा निष्कासन हो निराशा का
निर्माण आज ही होगा ... ३

थमने के सौ बहाने मिलेंगे,
रुकना नहीं है लेकिन,
एक कदम तो बढाकर देखो आगे,
प्रस्थान आज ही होगा .... ४

- अमित

Entrepreneurship: An Addiction

Does every IITian have this inside him?? Is this a fashion to be an Entrepreneur after your B.Tech from IIT or it is really the passion to be at the top? When thought deep inside, the question gets echoed to me and rather surprisingly I was in the middle of an unsolved case.

The company I am working in is started by two IITians, one of my closest friend at IITD has already left his job to accommodate his business association, one other did not even appear for on-campus placements and started his own firm, two more guys from the same batch has already put their boots in the destined direction and one has launched his home production along with job. These are just few contacts in my vicinity but I am sure many others also must have planned their way even before they pass out.

The question for the time being is not how many of them are ready to fly but actually how many of them actually take off. Few reached heights of greatness but that is a strict “few”, rest are still finding their way and some of them got crashed even before they cross the runway.

So what is the outcome of this mess? When I asked this question to few respectable figures in business domain, I got a very fair answer and that to me was more than satisfactory. They simply told me “you got to take your chance if you want to achieve levels beyond the reach of common man. The only thing important is when to take that chance. Whoever replies himself this question honestly, he is all set to become a potential difference maker.”

But during my stay at IITD, I was fortunate enough to watch some of the great ideas and there implementation in making. With due respect to every other engineering college, I found a strange quality in an iitan and that is a strong desire to be at the top, no matter how it comes. Each one of them wants to achieve that something extra which makes them stand out of the rest. Many of those great ideas eventually turns into entrepreneurship and many into disaster but the point remained to be underlined is the addiction attached. Yes it is an addiction which is named entrepreneurship professionally and almost every iitan, deep inside has its root in him.

I am finishing on a controversial note but my effort was for a group not community

My Passion for Tendulkar

People near me often found my passion and aggression strange when it comes to the God of Indian cricket, the man himself, little master Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. In different circumstances I have been in different mindsets but as they say certain things you carry with your bag and baggage which is somewhere hidden inside you. My passion for SRT is hidden somewhere deep inside me.

Let me start from the day when it all started. On a cozy afternoon , in march 1996, when I came back from my school, I switched on TV and that was the time when sachin was set to tear apart the sri lankan bowling ( The eventual winners of the world cup, 96). The match was in kotla and sachin smashed 137. Of course the party was spoiled by jayasuriya in the latter half but that was the first incident which leaves a mark in my mind. 1996 world cup, sachin ended up as getting Most runs ( 523 to be exact in one tournament) and many fans across the world.

2 year's later, In april 98, against a red hot aussi team, India were struggling to get there way and I switched off my TV and went to sleep. Next morning when I woke up, news papers were showing different stories altogether. Another master piece from SRT had set the tone for india and two days later he won it for india in sharjah. Those two knocks of 143 and 134 were came at a time when Indian cricket was “one may army” show and that 143 in a deserted storm still remains as my favorite tendulkar innings.

Greatness never comes from one or two brilliant on field performances, there have been many more great innings from other batsman of sachin’s era but what makes little man apart is the ability to carry the hopes of one billion people who wants sachin to score a hundred every time he walks into the middle. 10 failures of a Gangulys or Sehwags doesnt get even half as much hype as tendulkar’s 3 failures in a row. In India, a billion dollar investment satellite can fail on its first launch from earth but a sachin simply cannot fail.

As a teenager, when ever my heart said sachin you have to play today, we are here to watch you only sir, hardly he disappoints atleast better than any of the other great batters around there. He smashed 140 not out on very next day of his father’s funeral, 136 in pain against pak in Chennai 1999, took on south Africa with an audacious 155 in 2001, 98 brilliant runs against Pakistan at Centurion in 2003, Sydney double handred in January 2004 ( a hundred which he wanted badly or rather we the Indians) , 35th hundred against sri lanka at Delhi 2005, again 97 breathtaking runs against Pakistan in Gwalior in 2007, century at Adelaide oval in January 2008, not out 103 after Mumbai attacks against England or 175 against Australia at Hyderabad 2009.

Every time we want him to score , he did it for India. Numbers speaks for sachin’s brilliance but I take little interest in them. His shot selection, focus and performance against the best bowling attacks makes him my idol. He carries God like stature in India and I am no different from his billions of fans across the globe.

A very interesting incident I wanted to describe here is an interview with shahrukh in which he was asked about the biggest icon in the country, SRK did replied this question saying “there was a party in Mumbai in which film stars and cricketers were present, suddenly there was a buzz among the crowd or rather elite crowd and it was arrival of Mr. bacchan. All the stars get queued in a line to get a glimps of Mr. bacchan. A little later again there was a buzz in the party and this time Mr. bacchan was leading the queue to meet the biggest icon of india, yes it was the arrival of Sachin Tendulkar.”

Many greats have said many great quotes about sachin but I will end it up saying my own and i.e.
“Had Sir Donald Bradman been alive today, he would have said ‘Thank you sachin tendulkar for entertaining us now over 20 years. We salute you’ ”.

When I was low...

अब थकने लगा हूँ मैं ...

अकेला चला था ,अकेला ही चल रहा हूँ
आँधियों से बचता हुआ, दीपक की तरह ज़ल रहा हूँ,
न जाने कब रुकेगा यह कारवां , कब थमेगी यह दौड़ ,
अब थकने लगा हूँ मैं, नहीं दिख रहा उजाला किसी ओर ....१

जब झाँक के देखता हूँ , खुद में मैं कहीं, तो खुद पे ही मुस्कुराता हूँ मैं,
और अपनी ही हस्ती को देखकर , शायद खुद से ही ज़ल जाता हूँ मैं
कब रुकेगी यह उदेड्बुन , कब रुकेगा यह शोर,
अब थकने लगा हूँ मैं, नहीं दिख रहा उजाला किसी ओर ..... २

इस तेज़ दौड़ती हुई ज़िन्दगी में, सब तेज रफ़्तार से चले जा रहे हैं
न जाने कौनसे अनजाने लक्ष्य की तरफ बिना रुके बढे जा रहे हैं
कब ख़तम होगी यह रात, कब आएगी भोर
अब थकने लगा हूँ मैं, नहीं दिख रहा उजाला किसी ओर .... ३

ज़िन्दगी के दोराहों पर, अक्सर एक दोस्त की कमी खलती है
और सच्चे दोस्त के बिना , कभी कभी एक बोझ सी लगती है
नहीं चला जाता अब अकेले, नहीं चलता कोई जोर ,
अब थकने लगा हूँ मैं, नहीं दिख रहा उजाला किसी ओर ....४


अमित

Finally my account has set up

yeah....i am available online now...
Now after blogging have become very common, I finally came out of myself and decided to express.
Your heartiest comments are welcomed on my posts :-)