And THIS IS THAT poem/ song which originated on the Ghats of Varanasi while sitting on steps of the Ghat in the evening & having some Nauka-Vihaar on the wavy chest of the River Ganga the same night way back in (last week of Sept) 1996; and got completed in Mumbai after a gap of whole One year or so... when one fine afternoon sitting on my writing table in Lenin Library, Ulhasnagar I felt like all those frozen moment all sudden have started to melt... yeah, it was as it is! I felt it literally!! All those frozen moment started melting and transforming themselves into a flesh of words...*

Majhi Re Naav Badhao... Majhi Re!

Majhi re Naav Badhao... Majhi re! (2)

Laherein Uttal, Taal De Raha Pawan,

Naiya ke sang-sang Dol raha Mann, re hey Majhi re!

Oho, Majhi Re Naav Badhao... Majhi Re! Oho, Majhi Re...Oho, Majhi Re...

Ghaat-Baat Chhoot chale, Sang hai na sathi;
Manva ke Pijare me Tadape koi Pakhi! (2)
Naache hai beech bhanvar, jaise Agan, re hey Majhi re!
Oho, Majhi Re Naav Badhao... Majhi Re! Oho, Majhi Re...Oho, Majhi Re...

Saanjh Dali Poorab ke Maatthe Andhera,
Sooraj ki Bindi ka Pachchhim Basera! (2)
Laali ka Dess kahaan Doondhoon sajan, re hey Majhi re!
Oho, Majhi Re Naav Badhao... Majhi Re! Oho, Majhi Re...Oho, Majhi Re...

 Dhoop-Chhanv, Raat-Din, Duniya ke Mele;
Apne hi Needon mein Panchhi Akele! (2)
Dharti akeli..... Akela Gagan.... re hey Majhi re!

Naav Badhao... Majhi Re, Naav Badhao! Oho, Naav Badhao...

Nadiya ke paani par jhil-mil ka khela,
Soone aakash chale Chanda Akela ! (2)
Anjaani Raahon ka Raahi Magan, re hey Majhi re!

Oho, Majhi Re Naav Badhao... Majhi Re! Oho, Majhi Re...Oho, Majhi Re... 

Laherein Uttal, Taal De Raha Pawan,

Naiya ke sang-sang Dol raha Mann, re hey Majhi re!

Oho, Majhi Re Naav Badhao... Majhi Re!

Oho, Majhi Re...Oho, Majhi Re...

 Naav Badhao... Majhi Re, Naav Badhao!

Oho, Naav Badhao... Oho, Naav Badhao... Oho, Naav Badhao!!

*(Only the ' Mukhara' has came there in Banaras, and all the 'Antaras' were got written in Mumbai, 1997.)

Back to memory lanes... via Varanasi!!

I came Mumbai on 2nd October1996 via Banaras; accidentally actually.

One fine morning (actually very bad, emotionally), while was going to my then news weekly office near to Sakchi, I've finally decided to go (come) Mumbai. It was 3rd Sept. 1996.

And when one of my poet friend Rakesh, somehow, heard about it he came to meet me at my office located at Sakchi Road (its call Kalimati Road, I guess). Was working for a news weekly, under the Editor Jagdesh Ji,  who used to be A VERY DEAR PERSON to me! Rakesh asked me to join them for a 5 day program somewhere in MP. I went. It was17th Sept the same year when I left Jamshedpur.... After the program, he asked me again to join him to go Banaras as he was studying in BHU those days, saying emotionally, "tum bombay ja raha hai, pata nahin fir kab milna hoga, chalo kuch din Banaras rah lo...." No prizes for guessing: I 'obliged' him, obviously! (he he..). And we've had a lot of Ghumna-firana in Banaras. The most memorable thing I experienced there was an evening at Ganaga ghat.... Wo shaam, apne saare drishyon aur anubhutiyon ke sath mere zehn mein freeze ho gayi thi jaise (that evening, with all its landscapes & moments, got frozen in my memory)...and after a year or so, in Mumbai, I've completed that poem "Majhi re naav badhao, Majhi re..." that has started that very evening at a Ganga ghat in Banaras.

Now, its 2012. I'm going to be baptized  as soon as possible!

I've had some very close and spiritually so enriching  experiences of  Jesus Christ's love for me and for all the human race. He was the Word Incarnate, The Only Son of The Father God Almighty! He came down on earth to save all of us from the death of sin; and to give us Moksha or  Eternal Life to all the mankind who believes in him!

Yesterday, however, I was just searching on net for some Catholic cultural group and I went through "Nav Sadhana" a dance school under the Diocese of Varanasi (http://www.dioceseofvaranasi.org/index.html). And I just could not help myself but to think if there is any Diocese in Jamshedpur too...! I find St. Joseph’s Cathedral  there in Jamshedpur on net.

And, to my bigger surprise, in a process of finding the exact location of St. Joseph’s Cathedral on Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/), I just can't resist myself to see my childhood place-  Telco Colony- on the Google satellite Map! And... It was like revisiting the long forgotten my own past... like watching a film of my own childhood... I felt like, it's not a matter of years but just of the passing day, of the yesterday

I had never visited my past this way before... I've never had a 'tendency' of looking back with 'a lot of affection & emotions'...  I never ever though that I, really, love those places that much... even today!!

O My Jesus! What haveYou  kept stored for me for the future....

Amen! Alleluia!!
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