खुदी  के  सवालों  के  शोर  में, थोडा  एकांत  ढूँढता  हूँ
खुदी  ने  बांधीं  जो बेड़ियाँ  हैं, उन्ही  का  छोर  ढूँढता हूँ

जिन्हें  छोड़  आगे  बड़ा , अब  उन्हें  ही  ढूँढता  हूँ
राहों  में  अपने  घर  को , गैरों  में  अपनों  को  ढूँढता  हूँ

ना  जाने  क्यूँ  औरों  की  आँखों  में  अपने  वजूद  को  ढूँढता  हूँ
खुद  में  किसी  और  को , आईने  में  खुद  को  ढूँढता  हूँ

शोर  में  सन्नाटे  को , तनहाई  में  एक  झलक  ढूँढता  हूँ
अपने  ही  कदमो  के  निशानों  में  सफ़र  की  शुरुआत  ढूँढता  हूँ

बहते  हुए  समय  के  कभी  इस  पार  तो  कभी  उस  पार  देखता  हूँ
हर  पल  में  कभी  ख़ुशी  तो  कभी  जीने  की  वजा  ढूँढता  हूँ

एक इशारे से ही सही
इस सफ़र को एक दिशा देदे
डूबती हुई हिम्मत को
किनारे की एक, झलक देदे

बेबस हुए इरादों को
उम्मीद की एक किरण देदे
दम तोडती सांसों को
जीने की एक वजा देदे

फिर से इस  जंग  को
सच और सादगी की ताकत देदे
जंजीरों को तोड़ने का,
फिर वही एक जूनून देदे

जकडे हुए पंखों को,
फिर एक खुला आसमान देदे
ऐ मालिक मेरे, मेरे देश को फिर वही पहचान देदे

हर पड़ाव  ना  जाने  कब  शुरू  हुआ  कब  ख़त्म
कभी  हंसा  के  गया  तो  कभी  झोली  में भरे  ज़ख्म
पर  हर  एक  हंसी  के  ज़रिये , हर  एक  आंसू  के  बदले
कुछ  देके  गया  कुछ  सिखाके  गया

हर  पड़ाव  से  बहुत  से  ठोकरें  मिलीं ,
पर  हर  ठोकर  ने  एक  नया  नजरिया  दिया ,
हर  पड़ाव  ने  गैरों   से  मिलाया ,
पर  हर  बार  नए  दोस्त  देके  गया ,

हर  अलविदा  से , बहुत  सी  यादें  मिलीं
हर  अंत  एक  नयी  शुरुआत  देके  गया
हर  मोड़  ने  अनजान  रास्तों  से  मिलाया
हर  रास्ता  एक  मंजिल  देके  गया

कितना  अच्छा  है  कि  ये  कभी  रुकते  नहीं ,
सांसों  से  चलते  हैं , कभी  ठहरते  नहीं
एक  से  दूसरा  टूटता  है  तो  और  एक  जुड़ता  भी  है ,
एक  यादों  में  गुम  होता  है  तो , एक  नया  मिलता  भी  है ,

काश  कि  खुद  को  भुला  के , मैं  भी  यूंही   चलता  रहूँ
एक  पड़ाव  से  निकलूं   तो  दूसरे  की  ओट  में  बढ़ता  रहूँ
काश  कि  ये  कदम  कभी  थकें  नहीं
बस  यूंही   ख्वाइशों  से  जुड़ता  रहूँ , जिन्दगी  से  मिलता  रहूँ

Software market is transforming and shaping up in quite a similar fashion. OS being the actual house. We use it all the time. We look for how well connected it is to social network or to the world wide web (through the most appropriate browser). Are there any places to hangout (pun intended), what about entertainment, movies, songs. Are there any web stores. Pretty recently we have seen companies trying to respond to not just one piece of this puzzle but to the whole solution. They have taken cognizance of the fact that the secret to comprehensive growth is to tackle the problem in totality. Google that started primarily as search and later mail, is delving into OS and social networking. It is fighting for top share in browser market. It tested the waters in music and is renting movies through youtube. Similarly Apple with iOS, lion, appstore, itunes store and ibooks is trying to claim its own right on the software real estate by building its own self sustainable and also self-managed system. Microsoft of course comes up with a wild idea every once in a while, be it live or bing or ie 10 or facebook ties, or 365 but is doing what it can to catch up. A single vertical might be startup’s cake but big players like these are building not just one service or estate rather every single one of them its building its own ecosystem. So that no matter what the customers want, they don’t feel the need to explore newer areas. That they stay within the colonies built by these giants. Sooner or later the only choice that the users would have to make would perhaps be which system do they want to be a part of. I do not wish to suggest that these systems would be isolated and the choice would be rigid. Also not all of these systems would be equally vibrant and/or diverse. Nor would they evolve at the same rate. Some would be rich is certain assets while deficient in others. They would not be perfect but most probably be (or at least attempt to be) self reliant. Cross linkages and interdependence, as always, would be inevitable. But just like human ecosystems they would be at both micro and macro levels. Very similar to interactions within society and between states. For the sake of our own sanity and workability we would have to choose one from the many. Though there still would be inter connections and hopefully enough flexibility, but none the less, that choice would define to a large extent what we would do and how we would live in the software world. Should we be wary of this apparent segmentation of virtual landscape, perhaps.

सीधे  से  लोग  होंगे  वहां  पर
सीधे  से  सपने  होंगे
मुस्कुराते  चेहरे  होंगे
सच्चे  से  नाते  होंगे

खिलखिलाती  सी  गलियां  होंगी
भरे  भरे  से  घर  होंगे
अनकही  सी  दोस्ती  होगी
सुलझे से  रिश्ते  होंगे

मैं  मेरा  और  मुझसे   घिरे
ना  बेबस  से  चेहरे  होंगे
पक्के   से  दोस्त  होंगे
ना  खुशियों  पे  पहेरे  होंगे

कुछ  कोस  दूर  पर  काश
सच  ये  छोटे  से  सपने  होंगे
जहाँ  जन्नत  से  घरोंदे  होंगे
फ़रिश्ते  से  अपने  होंगे ..

क्या जीता क्या हारा मैने
ना राह रुकी ना थमा सफ़र
खुद को बस अकेला सा पाया मैने

क्या सोचा क्या चाहा मैने
ना यादें रहीं ना समेटीं खुशियाँ हीं
सपनो में उलझा, खुद को बस सहमा सा पाया मैने

क्या संजोया क्या संभाला मैंने
भिछ्ढ़ते क़दमों को चुपचाप गुज़रते देखा,
सफ़र को बेमानी सा पाया मैंने

ना मंज़िल पर सुकून, ना चलने का दम है
ना बढने का जुनून, ना ठहरने का मन है
जीती तो बस शायद दूरियाँ मैने
भीड़ मे कहीं खो दिया अपना साया भी मैने

P: Do not try to bend the spoon thats impossible instead only try to realize the truth
N: what truth..
P: There is no spoon
N: There is no spoon?!!
P: Then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, its only yourself .. (smiles..)

Reality is formed, sustained and experienced by perception. Its a tangled hierarchy. Which I believe is the corner stone of any wonderfully complex system such as this world. Parts must sum up to form parts that can be combined to form even bigger whole. Its identical to concept of pairs in Lisp. If a pair can be an element of another pair. No data structure, howsoever complex it be, is beyond reach. Subject and object is one such pair. Perceiver and perceived are inherently tied. I saw a ted video recently, swami dayanand saraswati said, if u fake it long enough and hard enough, u make it. It is so true for courage, enthusiasm, and even being!. A persistent change in perception is bound to materialize into reality. A change in reality almost certainly changes perception. Fate therefore is a matter of choice. Choice a result of events. “There is no spoon” says the other potential even when Neo is holding one in his hands. There is a suggestion of surrender here, which can be elevated to transcending or degraded to succumbing. Why should we reject something that feels real, for something out there. Why should be bother about the veracity of reality anyway, just relax ..shouldn’t we. The reason I guess lies in the closure property of the world. We are the world just as much as we are part of it. In this journey we meet Oracles, and Morpheuses and Smiths and Cyphers. We join the believers and fight the sentinels. We make a free choice or let ourselves be guided by fate. Until in the end we realize, we are fighting with ourselves. and that the battle ends only by, and instantly after, a voluntary surrender which then shapes a whole new reality with we being the center of the 10,000 things like everyone else. In this attempt to dig deeper into this reality we are,  probably silently but earnestly, wishing to find ourselves.

So deep, goes the rabbit hole
but so does my mind, my heart, my soul,
oneday I would reach the end and see,
i was always the one, all were always, one with me