The Best Songs From My Collection

When I was listening to songs today, I found I had about 16 songs that I loved immensely. While I have a large collection of songs, these are the ones I like the most. I am lost in heaven when I listen to these.

Song	Singer, Male	Singer, Female	Movie/Album	Music Director	Year Rls	Actor, Male	Actor, Female
Mein Gareebon Ka Dil Hoon	Hemant Kumar		Aab E Haayat	Sardar Malik	1955	Premnath	Sashikala
Yeh Jhuki Jhuki Nigaahen Teri	Rafi		Aao Pyaar Karen	Usha Khanna	1964	Joy Mukherjee	Saira Banu
Aap Ki Nazron Ne Samjha		Lata	Anpadh	Madan Mohan	1962	Dharmendra	Mala Sinha
Ankhiyan Sang Ankhiyaan Laagi Aaj -  Classical	Rafi		Bada Aadmi	Chitragupta	1961	Jayant	Vijaya Choudhury
Hari Om Man Tarpath Hari	Rafi		Baiju Baawra	Naushad	1952	Bharat Bhushan	Meena Kumari
Tujhe Dekha Tujhe Chaaha	Rafi	Suman Kalyanpur	Chchoti Si Mulaaqaat	Shankar Jaikishan	1967	Uttam Kumar	Vyjayanthimala
Us Ko Nahi Dekha Hum Ne Kabhi Eh Ma	Mahendra         Kapoor		Daadi Ma	Roshan	1966	Ashok Kumar	Bina Rai
Tum Mujhe Bhool Bhi Jaao	Mukesh	Sudha Malhotra	Didi	N Dutta	1959	Sunil Dutt	Jayashree
Mujhe Kitna Pyaar Hai Tum Se	Rafi	Lata	Dil Tera Deewana	Shankar Jaikishan	1962	Shammi	Mala Sinha
Raha Gardishon Mein Hardum	Rafi		Do Badan	Ravi	1966	Manoj Kumar	Asha Parekh
Mere Gore Gore Gaal	Rafi	Shamshad Begum	Dulhan	Ravi	1958	Raj Kumar	Nirupa Roy
Tum Hi Tum Ho Mere Jeewan Mein	Rafi	Lata	Ek Dil Sau Afsaane	Shankar Jaikishan	1963	Raj Kapoor	Waheeda Rehman
Ek Tha Gul Aur Ek Thi Bulbul	Rafi		Jab Jab Phool Khile	Kalyanji Anandji	1965	Shashi Kapoor	Nanda
Tim Tim Tim Taaron Ki Deep Jale	Talat Mehmood	Lata	Mausi	Vasant Desai	1958	Baburao Pendharkar	Sumati Gupte
Yeh Mousam Rangeen Sama	Mukesh	Suman Kalyanpur	Modern Girl	Ravi	1961	Pradeep Kumar	Sayeeda Khan
Aaya Na Hum Ko Pyaar Jataana	Mukesh	Suman Kalyanpur	Pehchaan	Shankar Jaikishan	1970	Manoj Kumar	Babita

Raha Gardishon Mein Hardum

I recently stumbled upon this song.

The song is from the movie Do Badan starring Manoj Kumar, Asha Parekh and Simi Garewal. It is one of those rare songs which Rafi sang for Manoj Kumar. 

Each time I listen to it, I find a lump in my throat and I want to understand what the hero is saying. So I started with the word "Gardish" and found its meaning here. And then the words "Yeh hamari badnaseebi jo nahi tho aur kya hai. Ke usi ke ho gaye hum, jo ho na saka hamara - "this is my misfortune; if not that what else is it? That I belong to that person who could not be mine".

Such is the power of the music director Ravi and Rafi's glorious voice, so sad and melodious is the tune that, for the first time in my life, I am forced me to listen to the words of Shakeel Badayuni and look for their meaning.

Amazing song.

A friend of mine pointed me to the translation of the lyrics of this song (look for one by pakpride007 on Monday, December 06, 2010). Of all the translations I found this was the best. This person has provided the gist of the song in English without trying to translate word by word. There is another translation here.

Another beautiful song by Ravi is Chalo Ek Baar Phir Se. (the link has a translation).

Updated on 31 Mar 2017: And a few days back, I heard this mesmerizing song Na Kisi Ki Aankh Ka Noor Hoon sung by Rafi in the movie Laal Quila (1960, MDL SN Tripath). An interesting titbit about the song is here. http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/the-debate-around-the-ghazal-na-kisi-ki-aankh-ka-noor-hoon-115091801302_1.html

No Paper, Please

I read this article today. I was reminded of my own thoughts when I was 14 or 15 (back when there was no credit card / ATM card. I used to wonder why we all needed to carry cash around. Why couldn't we have some kind of a personal ID that would indicate the amount of cash we had? If I wanted to give you some money, I could say give it to Bozo. Voilaa if the money could be "paid", cashless, from my ID to yours, we would never need to have paper notes, metal coins.

I have had a strong dislike for physical things and preferred "soft" copies / electronic alternatives. Even now I have almost completely stopped reading hard copy books or newspapers. What a waste of paper!

I remember the times when we were to travel to our home town 2000km away. My father would go to the railway booking office and stand in line for a few hours. There would be immense crowd. God help you if you had to change your travel date or cancel your ticket. If you were in city A, you could not book a ticket to travel from city B to city C. And now all these are thing of the past. 

In late 1980's if you had to call a number in the US and if you didn't have a telephone (India's teledensity was 1%, meaning 1 telephone per 100 people, you had to go to the post office, fill in a form and give it to the person there. When your turn came, the person would dial the number you had mentioned in the form and transfer the call to one of the telephones for public use in the post office and you took the call on that phone. And then would start the loud "HELLO, HELLO. I am speaking, HELLO HELLO". If you wanted a fixed line telephone, there was no mobile phone then, you had to book a phone and it would take about 7 to 8 years for your turn to come and get the phone installed.

Now the teledensity is 50%+. Almost everyone has a phone. You can call anywhere from a park. But the "HELLO, HELLO. I am speaking, HELLO HELLO" continues. Network and signal quality are not so good.

Coming back to the cashless system, while I had idly imagined such a mechanism decades back, it seems to be a reality in Sweden.

Emotions - What are they?

The subject of emotions interests me considerably. I have seen some intensely emotional people. 

I can't understand such intensely emotional people or their feelings much. To me they seem to be drowning / swimming in a sea of feelings with little thought to reality and data. To such people, for example, it doesn't matter what the temperature is. That they are feeling very cold or very hot is all that matters. That the temperature is mild and hence doesn't warrant feeling very hot or cold is irrelevant to them.

That everything in life is reasonably ok is irrelevant to them, they might still feel terribly depressed. They love to feel as some people like to ponder. Just like we may not understand people who want to ponder about (why did he do that?, why did she say that?) and understand everything, we may not understand intensely emotional people who want to feel all the time. They revel in their feelings, even if for some such people the feelings are mostly negative, of depression, sadness etc. 

They would hate the idea of doing something to alleviate their negative feelings. Is it because they want to feel bad? I am not sure. But they do want to feel. If removing their problems makes them not feel anything, they probably hate it. Feelings and emotions are like oxygen to them. It's an awful world were they to not feel anything.

Archimedes got a "high" when he discovered buoyancy. Emotional people desire to feel a high constantly. 

I have come across at least couple of such people who are consistently sad (almost ALL their waking hours) and both dislike the idea of any suggestions to remove what seem to be causing the sadness. Both would think me to be stupid if I suggested that they want to feel bad. Meaning my comment to them that I believe that their feeling bad was not an accident for them but a goal.

Neither of them is capable of much reason and logic. Neither can take any stress. Both are very indecisive. Both have a lot of knowledge and mistake it for intelligence. Both would hotly contest this statement (Of course here I am providing my opinion which itself could be wrong). Neither can analyze a subject. Any stance that they take would be based on chauvinism or cliches.

Now, let me make it very clear that I do not mean that most emotional people are very depressed. Not at all. It's just an accident that I know two very emotional people closely both of whom want to feel (sad in their case) all the time. Incidentally both of them are very sweet people. And they live thousands of miles apart.

When the person of reason and the person of emotions talk I would love to watch or at least hear an audio transcript of the conversation. Classic examples would be Hank and his brother Phil / Wife Lilian talking in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged". The person of reason would talk of giving what people deserve. People of emotion would talk of giving what people would need and that love means completely accepting a person as he is. A person of reason would shudder at the thought of signing such a blank cheque.

The person of emotions is likely to feel positively only towards those people who need them or whom they need emotionally. They respond to people who can titillate their emotions and make their emotions bloom. Either they feed a parasite or they become a parasite. They are not capable of treating people fairly (meaning giving a person what is right and adequate and not more). The person of reason, on the other hand, is likely to be seen by the emotional person as a machine or a rhyno having no softer feelings.

To each person the other person would seem like talking in a foreign language. I am eagerly waiting for a chance to eavesdrop on such a 2-language conversation.

Having said that I am fairly sure I have made one mistake. That I have put people into two compartments. One that use thoughts, one that use emotions. The issue is not that there could be greys but it is quite possible for a person to be very logical and have richness of emotions. I wonder what drives their behavior and when their thoughts or emotions take control. I do know one such person very well and have heard of yet another from Femmo. This question is irrelevant in cases of emotional people who generally lack thought or logical people who general lack emotions.

Additional reading: 

http://cnx.org/content/m14358/latest/

http://calmisc.blogspot.com/2011/12/ayn-rand-atlas-shrugged-and-fountainhead.html

Maths Puzzle - 22

A friend of mine gave me this puzzle. I am still stuck.

We Need A Change

I have hearing about sanitary pads more and more in the last 10 years. I thought enough was enough and I had to find out what these were for. Here for instance.

And hence I set about reading. Apparently these are used by women when they have their periods. these pads absorb all the liquid, making it much more comfortable than it would otherwise have been. When the blood flow is very high, women sometimes use two pads at a time. 

Aaah, Never knew all this. What exactly is the quantity of flow which causes so much discomfort?

So I set about trying to finding that out. I did know that the periods lasted about 3-5 days. A little bit of googling gave me the data. It is about 80mm total flow over one complete cycle. Meaning about 25 ml per day. On HEAVY flow days that will be about 50 ml (I am guessing: if the total is 80mm, the maximum flow on ANY day would be about that) . On those days the blood loss will be 50ml/24hr = 2ml per hour. 

Wowow. I think when I cut myself while shaving, which is fairly frequently considering I haven't used a shaving cream or shaved in hot water in many years, I lose more blood in those 10 minutes of rapid shaving.

Assuming this data is correct, now should I change to use a sanitary pad while shaving or should women stop making a fuss?

Of course, I shared my observation with a friend of mine. She made a grimace and said the PAIN is unbearable. And that it's not really about the flow. 

Life is all about emotions and not just about 50-80ml of blood and 1000 eggs loss a month.