नाहुनीया उभी मी...

नाहुनीया उभी मी सुकवीत केस ओले
वेड्या मुशाफिराने त्याचेच गीत केले.

अवकाश भारलेला, माझे मला न भान
अनिवार एक होती, ओठावरी तहान
खासाचिया लयीत, संगीत पेरलेले
वेड्या मुशाफिराने त्याचेच गीत केले.

साधून हीच वेळ, आला कोठुन वारा

सुकवीत फूल त्याने, लुटला पराग सारा

मग होय चंदनाचे अस्तित्व तापलेले

वेड्या मुशाफिराने त्याचेच गीत केले

दाही दिशात तेंव्हा आली भरून तृप्ती

अंगांग तेवानारी, ही निवांत ज्योती

येई न सांगता जे, असे घडून गेले
वेड्या मुशाफिराने त्याचेच गीत केले.

- सुधीर मोघे

नसतेस घरी तू जेव्हा..

One of the masterpieces by Salil Kulkarni and Sandeep Khare॥ The poem does magic with simple words.. music is fabulous.. and Salil's voice is indeed touching !!

Listen here..

नसतेस घरी तू जेव्हा..
जीव तुटका तुटका होतो
जगण्याचे वीरती धागे
संसार फाटका होतो

नभ फाटून वीज पडावी
कल्लोळ तसा ओढवतो
ही धरा दीशाहीन होते
अन्‌ चंद्र पोरका होतो

येतात उन्हे दाराशी
हीरामुसून जाती मागे
खीडकीशी थबकुन वारा
तव गंधावाचून जातो

तव मीठीत वीरघळणाऱ्या
मज स्मरती लाघववेळा
श्वासावीण ह्रुदय अडावे
मी तसाच अगतीक होतो

तू सांग सखे मज काय
मी सांगू या घरदारा ?
समईचा जीव उदास
माझ्यासह मीणमीण मीटतो

ना अजून झालो मोठा
ना स्वतंत्र अजुनी झालो
तुजवाचून उमगत जाते
तुजवाचून जन्मच अडतो !


- संदीप खरे, सलील कुलकर्णी
आयुष्यावर बोलू काही (२००३)

भय इथले संपत नाही...

भय इथले संपत नाही...मज तुझी आठवण येते...
मी संध्याकाळी गातो...तू मला शिकविली गीते...

हे झरे चंद्र सजणांचे, ही धरती भगवी माया...
झाडांशी निजलो आपण, झाडांत पुन्हा उगवाया...

त्या वेळी नाजूक भोळ्या, वारयाला हसवून पळती...
क्षितीजांचे तोरण घेऊन, दारावर आली भरती...

तो बोल मंद हळवासा, आयुष्य स्पर्शुनी गेला...
सीतेच्या वनवासातील, जणू राघव शेला...

देऊळ पलिकडे तरीही, तुज ओंजळ फुटला खांब...
थरथरत्या बुबूळापाशी, मी उरला सुरला थेंब...

संध्येतील कमल फ़ुलासम, मी नटलो श्रृंगाराने
देहाच्या भवती रिंगण, घालती निळाईत राने

स्त्रोत्रात इंद्रिये अवघी, गुणगुणती दु:ख्ख कुणाचे
हे सरता संपत नाही, चांदणे तुझ्या स्मरणाचे

ते धुके अवेळी होते, की परतायची घाई
मेंदुतून ढळली माझ्या, निष्पर्ण तरुंची राई

- ग्रेस

Narayan..

These days I have become <PuLa> "Naraayan" </PuLa>.. Handy man.. for my music group !!

We have music show on 23rd June for marathi community, here in SD. We are performing 13 to 17 songs. So these days, music practices are part of daily life.. really hectic schedule.. I am playing Tabla in 5 songs and flute in one. We have couple of really good percussionist in our group, so I am just assisting them with my Tabla.

Now, here is the interesting part..

Last week, the group asked me to play "Bongo" for "MungaLaa".. Now I never played Bongo before.. but song is really "empty", so to add some fillers, I am required to play Bongo.

Again, in yesterday's practice, they asked me to play "Ghungaru" in two folk songs, just to add some more fillers in the song.

In today's practice, our keyboardist asked to me to assist him on the keyboard for "Crazy Kiya Re".. and I was totally in a shock... means.. being Tabla player, playing new percussion instrument like "Bongo" is not a big deal.. playing "Ghungaru" is okay too... but playing "Keyboard" is not a joke.. hshhhh... I have played Harmonium before, but surely not a Keyboard.. so I was really skeptical, but "Crazy Kiya Re" song itself is not that difficult.. I picked it up quickly.. still needs plenty of practice on keyboard.. but still.. not doing bad !! Infact, we have only one keyboardist in the group and he has to play in all the songs.. so again.. I am "required" to help him :) !!

Any way, so now I am playing "Tabla", "Flute", "Bongo", "Ghungaru" and "Keyboard" for this show... so any thing else? lets see if our "Guitarist", "Drummer" or "Singers" need any help too...

..Surely.. I am "Narayan" of my music group :) !!!

Resolutions..

"New Year Resolution". This is surely an interesting business. Everybody comes up with some new resolutions every year. It doesn't matter if you have really achieved your last year's resolutions or not. Nobody verifies. But so what.. its utmost important to come up with some new ones.. :-D

Infact how long these resolutions survive is another aspect. While talking with my colleagues, somebody said "My new year resolution is to have a fish tank". The moment we started talking about "Fish fry" & "Fish curry", the resolution ended up in trash.
As Pu La says, "Ganapati ani Sankalpa sarkhech !! Kunacha Ganapati deed diwasacha asto, Kunacha paach diwasacha, Baghu ya amacha kiti diwas tikatoy te"

Overall the strategy is
- Setup an (un)achievable goal
- Start working towards your goal
- Soon you will realize that "achievable" goal is really under "unachievable" category. Rectify it and work towards it.
- Loopback last step for whole year.
- At the end of the year, you will get "something" done (??).. doesn't matter what was your original goal.

Hmmm sounds similar to software engineering :-) !!

Here is an interesting article by Pu La about new year resolutions..

So what are my '07 resolutions?

- Start a blog ... Tadaa.. Goal achieved !!
- Keep writing a blog.. Uhhh ohh !!
- Instead of "Standing Outside The Fire", try to get into it... Ya.. this is a mysterious resolution.. I will let you know at the end of the year :) .. Its as secretive as 007 !!

- Kau