peer tere jaan di

One of my all time favourite and Gurdas Maan classic: peer tere jaan di kiddan jaranga main tere bagair zindagi nu ki karanga main ki karanga pyar di lutti bahar nu sajian sajaiyan mehfilan gunde shingaar nu hathin mari muskaan da matam karanga main je ro pia te kehange dewaana ho gia na bolia te kehange begana ho gia lokan di is zubaan ni kiddan faranga main saahan di dubdi naab nu jhonka mile ja na is jahaan milan da mauka mile ja na agle jahan milan di koshish karanga main ...

September 26, 2008 at 8:41 PM · 1 min · 138 words · Amardeep Sidhu

A Wednesday

I watched A Wednesday onSaturday. Its a real good movie. Just 1 hr 45 mins and no love story & naach gaana. Thankfully some non-karan-johar cinema to be checked out. Naseeruddin Shah, Anupam Kher and Jimmy Shergill all of them did good work. Jimmy Shergill’s acts were done a bit over. The movie flows very nicely. No boring and sleepy scenes. No jumping of story from A to Z and then back to M. Also no violence was there in the movie. Just the fear of the bombs. Naseeruddin Shah played the character of the common man beautifully. His pent-shirt and then the way he walks totally represent a normal man in the society. Anupam Kher as usual also did great. Jimmy Shergill has a small role and he did it well. Deepal Shah looks ugly and sort of extra. That part could have been handled in somewhat different and better manner. ...

September 22, 2008 at 7:21 AM · 1 min · 169 words · Amardeep Sidhu

shabash "Chamkila" ?

kuch cheezan parde saar e dimag kharab kar dindian ne. aj main spokesman ch ik article pad riha c. article ch lekhak chamkile nu changa sidd karan te sara zor la dinda hai. nale eh pehli wari nahi ho riha k chamkile nu changa karan di koshish kiti gai hove. meri eh behas pehla b kai wari ho chukki hai. article ch lekhak da sara zor eh sidh karan te lag gia k chamkila bahut hi mahaan banda c. hor b pata ni ki ki. te sahara kis cheez da lia k aj kal b betuke video ban rahe a. par ehda sahara lai k uhne chamkile di izzat nu aanch ni aaun diti. sidh karta k oh mahaan c te bahut galat hoya k maria gia. ...

September 21, 2008 at 7:15 PM · 3 min · 465 words · Amardeep Sidhu

mere shauq da nahi aitbaar tainu...

A beauty by Ghulam Ali. First a little bit about history of this ghazal. It was originally written by Mirza Ghalib in Persian. Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum translated it to Punjabi and then Ghulam Ali added to the beauty by rendering it with perfection. Enjoy the masterpiece from the legends: mere shauq da nahi aitbaar tainu aaja vekh mera intezaar a ja avein laran bahanane labhna en ki tu sochna en sitamgaar a ja mere shauq da nahi aitbaar tainu… (sitamgaar - oppressor) ...

September 19, 2008 at 10:03 PM · 5 min · 854 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Life is...

Probably, i observe too much. And that is a problem sometimes, something gets stuck in your head and it makes you keep thinking about it, all the time. This post is not about anything really. Just a post, i should say. I go to office by local bus and bus stop is just 4-5 minutes walk from my house. Generally i reach 5 minutes before the time of the bus. Now it has been pretty good time and i almost recognize all the daily passengers (probably they recognize me too). Sometime standing there, there are so many things to observe and notice. Life…at its full speed. People are going to their offices. Rikshaw wallas are waiting for their daily passengers to help them reach their destinations. Buses seem to be swiftly doing their daily duty. If we try to notice peoples’ faces some are serious, some sad and few happy. With these mobile phones with FM radio becoming so popular most of the people are seen talking on the phone or having plugged in the ear piece and listening to radio. That have actually reduced the interaction with fellow passengers in country like India. People sit quietly and play their music. These days DTC has started some AC buses so some changes are there to be seen signifying some improvements. Traffic still moves almost in a stupid and irritating manner. We Indians have not learned to obey the rules. Probably a rule is required to make people obey the rules. ...

September 18, 2008 at 10:06 PM · 2 min · 393 words · Amardeep Sidhu

And now its Delhi...

Yesterday, I had gone to office and came back at around 6. After half an hour one of my friend called to ask “Where are you ? All fine ?” And then i came to know that there had been serial blasts in Delhi. I switched on the TV and there was blood all around at all the blast sites. People were rushing around and moreover it was getting darker so help, search and other things were becoming difficult. Well, an unfortunate day for Delhi. ...

September 14, 2008 at 6:16 PM · 5 min · 910 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Justice ? please wait...

Isn’t it a crying shame for the country that after 24 years (since 1984) there have been no sentences in the registered anti Sikh riot cases (How many were actually registered is a question for another day). And now Jagdish Tytler wants some case against him to be shifted from Ludhiana to Delhi. Why ? So that he can use his influence and get free from the clutches of the law (if it is still alive ?). And its not only the case with 1984 riots cases, its the story of each and every such case. Gujrat is another example. How much the Gujrat riots tarnished the image of India internationally ? Who cares ? ...

September 9, 2008 at 7:57 AM · 2 min · 248 words · Amardeep Sidhu

main hosh mein tha

A masterpiece by Mehdi Hasan: main hosh mein tha to phir us pe mar gaya kaise yeh zeher mere lahoo mein utar gaya kaise kuch us ke dil mein lagawat zaroor thi warna woh mera haath daba ke guzar gaya kaise (lagawat - affection, love) zaroor us ki tawajoh ki rehbari ho gi nashe mein tha to main apne hi ghar gaya kaise (rehbar - guide, tawajoh - liking, close attention) ...

September 8, 2008 at 8:50 PM · 2 min · 235 words · Amardeep Sidhu

You know you are in Chandigarh when...

Today one of my friend forwarded a mail which i think is worth making into a blog entry. It is a must read if you have been to Chandigarh. Well, even if you haven’t but then you won’t understand everything ;) . So here it goes: You know you are in Chandigarh when… University elections become more important than MLA, MC elections (SOPU, PUSU bruuahh) Explaining Gehri to outsiders becomes a tough task ...

August 27, 2008 at 7:41 PM · 4 min · 815 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Reservation in IITs

Reservations have already screwed up all the admission criterion’s, now comes another blow. They are again lowering the cut offs for SC/ST candidates. I just don’t understand what is wrong with the decision makers in India ? As this piece of news reads that earlier when the relaxation was at 40% if last general category student was having scored 5 in maths, 0 in physics and 3 in chemistry, an SC/ST student who had scored up to 40% lower- 3 in maths, 0 in physics and 1.8 in chemistry - was given a seat in the IITs. Now they want to make it 40%. That means if we keep the last general candidate’s marks constant then new limits for SC/ST students would be 2.5 in maths, 0 in physics and 1.5 in chemistry. ...

August 26, 2008 at 8:22 PM · 1 min · 200 words · Amardeep Sidhu