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Archive for January, 2007

uski behrukhi

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

mein kaatil nahi mujhe sazaa na do
uski yeh berukhi mujhe khuda na do

kashtiya gum gastah hai berehm samandar mein
naadaan yeh bhi hai, inhe toofan na do

janaazah roz dekhu mere marhoom dil ka
zindah hu phir bhi aisi zindagi na do

askh behte rahe saari raat bhar
uski yeh berukhi mujhe khuda na do

18 Jan 2007
Shalin Jain

Ek kahaani

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Ek kahaani adhoori reh gayi
najaane dil me kitni tamanaye reh gayi

dilasaa dhundne nikle hai hum
chalo aaj naseeb se hi baate karlenge

ab shikwah kare to kis se kare
aaeneh me hum akele nazar aate hai

mukamal to honi hai zindagi
chalo kisi aur sire se sahi

17 Jan 2007
Shalin Jain

Tenmiles @ Proto

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Tenmiles has been shortlisted (only 30 companies all over India) to showcase one of our product at India’s first entrepreneurs (from the IT product development arena) event. The event is officially sponsored by Rediff and has already attracted numerous VCs, angel investors and technologists.

Business world recently wrote up about the event which can be read here.

mein doob na jaau

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

tere khayaal me mein doob na jaau
hum tehrahk to nahi, kahin mar na jaau

dekhte ho tum mujhe in gehri aankoun se
kitne khat likhte ho, tum meri in aankoun ko

khwabon mein tum aksar mila karte ho
subhah ki dhoop mein phir ghul jaate ho

itna sochte hain yeh pal tumhare bare mein
waqt to dariya hai, mein kahi doob na jaau

tera intazaar

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

do roz lage mujhe umr ki tarah
behtha hai lamha asir ki tarah

paresha shab ne khudkhusi karli
dekhte rahe hum logo ki tarah

tere intzaar mein malool yeh aankein
har raah lage mujhe raaz ki tarah

karu kis kadar kis par bharosaa ab
bikte hai vaadein yahan khilono ki tarah

14 Jan 2007
Shalin Jain

Sirf Aaj

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Teri aagosh mein samaah jane de aaj
phir tanhai ko bhi rafeeq bana lenge

kuch lamhe zindagi ke jene de aaj
phir maut ko bhi gale laga denge

tere zulfoun ki narmi mein gum hone de aaj
waqt se hisaab kisi aur din kar lenge

chandini ki chaadar oodh sone de aaj
phir kwaab samajh bhula denge

7 January 2007
Shalin Jain

ViM 7 Tip: Getting rid of ^M

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

It’s been over 15 months since I moved to Mac (Unix-based) OS. Not too often but I still have to modify code that I wrote during my Windows days. The most common problem opening a DOS-formatted text file (PHP file in this case) is getting a ^M at the end of every line. Which looks something like this:

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nazm ki aarzoo

Monday, January 1st, 2007

ek nazm ki aarzoo kagaz tale dab gayi
be-khabar hum the, be-khabar tum the

kuch lavzo ki duriyon mein dastaane bayan thi
aksar unme tum the, aksar unme hum the

guzarte saaloun ki tarah hum ise bhool chale
be-fikr hum the, be-fikr tum the

qurbaan thi najane kitni aysi aarzooein
makhboot tum the, makhboot hum the

1 January 2007
Shalin Jain