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welcoming you back is tiring, stop thanking me.

for a while there i was under the impression that “lack thereof” was what my “sense of style and fashion” was called.

beware of him! he speaks in tongues and writes in pens.

i’m not nearly as good or as important to feel insecure.

light

i have no delusions
of light at the end of the tunnel.
i don’t expect to get there.
God may have said,
“let there be light”.
i say, “there need be none”.
i have no delusions.
i roam in any direction
that my feet will lead me.
i carry nothing with me.
nothing here is mine.
only the journey…
maybe the journey is mine.

you have questionable friends with questionable taste, which is probably why they’re your friends.

ooooohhhhhh!!!

This is me from sometime last year, during my work trip to India. Feels like a decade ago.

This was on my last work day there. They gifted me a book and they all signed it. I did some magic, and this part was captured on video.

tanhaai – faiz ahmed faiz

This is ‘tanhaai’ by Faiz Ahmed Faiz. You can find Faiz’s own recitation here.

This is me reciting it: [direct audio link]
[audio:http://www.jaaduhai.com/tunes/adnan/bol7/tanhaai.mp3]

You will notice that it is somewhat different from Faiz’s. =)

phir ko’ii aayaa, dil-e-zaar! nahiin, ko’ii nahiin;
raah-rau hogaa, kahiin aur chalaa jaaegaa.
dhal chukii raat, bikharne lagaa taaron kaa ghubaar,
larkharaane lage aiwaanon mein khwaabiida charaagh,
so ga’ii raasta tak takke har ek rah guzaar;
ajnabi khaak ne dhundlaa diye qadmon ke suraagh.

gul karo shamiin, barhaa do mai-o-miinaa-o-ayaagh,
apne be khwaab kivaaron ko muqaffal kar lo;
ab yahaan ko’ii nahiin, ko’ii nahiin aayega!

Oh and the last bit of “koi nahin” naturally comes from the first line of this poem.

for all intensive purposes i spelled out my intents and purposes.

when i grow up, i want to be younger.