The song that I'll always remember

It was in December 2005, I suppose the date was 9th December. I was travelling with my cousin in his car, from the railway station to his house. I had arrived in Hyderabad on that cold morning to attend my cousin-sister's marriage a few days later. It was at that time that I heard this song for the first time on the car stereo. Then, I did not get to hear it for a long time. I only knew that the song was from an album of "OM-The Fusion Band"

It was towards the end of December 2006 that I came across the song again. Basically, I was bored with my Post-Doc work and I decided to search and download songs from the site CoolToad. I remembered this song and searched it and got hold of it.

The reason for me remembering this song is something that happened a few days later. Around the time of new year-2007. As I said earlier, I had downloaded the songs on my office PC and I wanted to listen to the songs at home too, on my Laptop. So, I had transferred the songs on to my archaic external hard-drive (which held a lot of songs, movies and other not so academically important stuff, which I had collected during my four year PhD stay in IIT Bombay).

On the fateful day, I positioned my external drive and connected it to the PC and to the power supply (Right! the hard-disk required a separate power supply) and started copying the songs. Unfortunately, as my luck would have it, the wires proved a little too short to bridge the gap between the power plug point and my laptop on the table. The hard-disk slipped from the table and fell to the floor.

And that was the end of 'its' life.


Lyrics :


मन के दर्पन में देखे है
कितने रंग जीवन के
सात सुर मिलके जैसे संगीत में ढले
फूल चुन चुन के जैसे गुलशन कोई खिले

पल में बादल है, पल में किरने है
भोर है सांझ है कभी
एक पल मन निराश है, आस है कभी
पल में मुस्कान, पल में हैरान
प्यार है, बैर है कभी
लोग अपने है एक पल, गैर है कभी

पल यह कब जाने दिन बने, जाने कैसे दिन बदले साल में
उंगलियों पे गिने अगर, यूँ तो साल भी गुज़रे है कई
पीछे मुडके जो देखे इक बार, आज भी याद है सभी

यादों के साथ ख़्वाबों के सिलसिले चले,
बीते हर पल के रंग हर ख्वाब में मिले
बिन लड़कपन के, मनचलेपन के,
कितने मासूम थे सभी
अब है अफ़सोस लौट के आयेंगे नहीं
पल दो पल के है सारे एहसास,  पल दो पल की है ज़िन्दगी
रिश्ते नाते भी खेल है, पल दो पल के ही
बहती नदिया के धार के जैसि,
हर ख़ुशी आनि  जानी है
साने जब तक है चल रही,
धडकनों में जब तक रवानि है
एक रौशन दिये की लौ जैसी ज़िन्दगी की कहानी है
आँधियों में भी ज़िन्दगी की यह लौ जले
साँसों की लय पे उमर की दासतान चले
Translation :

I have see a lot of shades of life in the mirror that is my mind. Like the seven notes mixing to create music, like a garden made of carefully chosen flowers, [the shades of life make it colourful]

For a moment it is gloomy, the next moment it is bright. Things are rising at certain times and waning at other times. Sometimes, the mind feels hopeless and it is full of hope at other times.

Life is all smiles at certain moments and it is full of shocks and surprises at other. It is full of love-hate relationships. People who seem to be friends at sometimes, seem foes at other instances.

I did not realize when these moments turned to days and the days into years, if I start counting, I realise that many such years have passed. Yet, I still recollect each of these colourful moments of my life. The colourfulness of each of my memories still exists in my dreams.

Those were the days when everyone was so innocent, without a touch of pride. Alas, those days would not return. All feelings are moments, even this life is momentary and so is all this facade called as relationships.

All experiences of life are bound to be temporary, coming and going, like the flow of a river. As long as one is breathing and the heart has strength of beat, this the story of life will continue to glow like the flame of a lamp.

This fire of life will keep on burining even during stormy weather. The legacy of a lifetime would always run with the metre of one's breath.

I had this song with me, which talked about the vagaries of life and I had just lost a lot of pirated material. That was the real reason for the song being imprinted on to my mind. I remember this song on the first death anniversary of my poor external hard drive.



Update (28 March 2012)
Found a link to the song on Youtube.