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Sunday, July 20, 2003

Dil-e-naadan tujhe hua kya hai
Aakhir is dard ki dawa kya hai
Humko Unase wafa ki hai ummiid
Jo nahi jaanate wafa kya hai

Hum hain mushtaaq aur woh bezaar
Yah ilahi yeh majaara kya hai

Jaan tum par nisaar karata hoon
Main nahi jaanata dua kya hai

Today morning I was writing the above lines by Ghalib in my diary. Why was I writing them. Because it felt nice to write them. Some sort of thrill. The handwriting starts to slant forward, indicating an increase in creativity and you feel enthusisastic about writing more. In the movie "Finding Forrester" there is this budding writer who starts to copy down the first lines of this Pulitzer Winner's works before he gets the inspiration to stop copying and continue on his own. Just hoping...

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